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I have mushroom and there are a few fantasy genes I'd like to add too, I got mushroom partly because I've wanted a real life mushroom pony for a long time, they just don't happen to appear in the lines I like because they are rare. My mushroom stallion is chocolate palomino with hom kp and a few other bits and pieces, but I intend just to breed his lines in with my current KP lines. If I get any fantasy genes I'll add them onto mares to cross with him.

lol i own all the closed genes and its pure and total chaos in my barns and pastures :)) I really want to reorganize but my god it would take a million extra barns/pastures and would take me an eon to complete....

I would love to get rid of all non fantasy genes but it’s not quite possible since I have to have foundations to breed to the fantasies at this point for me lol... but it’s a def goal down the road!

I like to play with fantasy gene combos, especially mixing in the ice genes. Ice 14 and het axiom and nexus is really cool. Wrong Warp and Watercolor is awesome looking, and so is Ice 1 and watercolor. Thunderstruck and Wrong Warp have really cool effects, too. :)

With how many fantasy genes there are, I've split them into large categories rather than try to keep them straight beyond that, lol! That way I have only two lines to deal with. The first line is my watercolor/thunderstruck/nacre - all of which show really well and look really cool with each other, so it's a more specified line. The second is, well, everything fantasy! Aka axioms and ices (and plaid). My Christmas present ponies are the foundation of that. And then my non-fantasy (or semi-fantasy) closed genes - chinchilla and macchiato are mixed into my silver pocket watch line because both look great on silver black (and nexus is in there too), and finally my mushrooms are a more elite little group as I started with a mare (and thus am limited by egg supply) and have strict requirements - flaxen, black liver, hom mu.

I honestly have a ridiculous number of lines and probably need to cull further to keep everything manageable, but then again I've always been a multitasker :))

My lines ... hmmm ... lines seem so nice and straight and clean, mine are more like avalanches of horses. I have been slowly organizing over the last six months and I have started separating the horses. Up until then except for my snowflakes everyone ran together. Some of my older pastures still have some mixing, but I correct it as I find it.

Era 5 line - All my other horses are EPerf and ExPro based. last month I decided to start an Era 5 line based on non experf rank specials. Not sure if I will keep this going or not.

Fantasy - I collapsed my rainbows and ice herd with my everything Nexus line into a single line called fantasy. I have all the genes and I love how they look all mixed together. Plus with the gene sales, most of my stallions have these genes all mixed together. My goal with this line is high testing evenly bred horses. This is the goal for most of my lines.

KP - I have a KP line - it has not been getting a lot of love, but I now have some new foundations so maybe I can reinvigorate it.

KitM and W8 - Just starting to separate this out. Love, love, love these kit patterns. This will be a growing area in my barn. After 2 plus years in the game, I may have found a colour/pattern that I may wish to take through my herd.

Snowflake - This line includes everything app. No colour restrictions for base colour. My goals are to produce an evenly bred +13 pt snowfakes. Currently I am about to slowly make Gen 4 snowflakes hom only. Then Gen 3. Unfortunately some of my best AFPTs are het, so it will be slow.

Bootstrap. - For me this herd is all about AFPTs and PTs. Looking to work my way to a PT of 14. I have two Gold mare pastures devoted to this. One has an AFPT cut off for mares of 12.95 after 3 foals, the other 12.9. The second will be brought into 12.95 by the end of this season.

Miscreant line - how bad can you get. This is all about low breeding quality animals. I compare against my baseline stud and soon they will have to be aga or inf to stay. Still experimenting a lot with this line. It is just fun. The good news is these horses do not sit in pastures as I wanted the lowest scored horses I can get. Pasture bonus is not my friend.

Mush, chin, splash M, satin - these are mixed in my general herd at the moment, so they will end up slowly working through all my horses. Numbers are too low to separate.

General herd - everything else. Experf/expro foundies, blue/A gen 2s and 3s, star/gold all other gens. Culled by afpt and comparison testing pretty vigorously. All colours and patterns welcome.