- Breed each mare twice. Once at 100% BLUP, and again at 100% GP (all skills black)
- Castrate colts that don't meet the stats above.
DETAILS - CHANCE BOREDOM AT YOUR OWN RISK:
Due to my approach, you're going to see a lot of mares and geldings in Elementian Farms. I will occasionally have some unicorns running around if I bought them from the auctions or bred my unicorns using the program above and their offspring are unicorns. The same guidelines will apply to them, because unicorns should be worth more than their horns, in my opinion.
I bought her mother, Claire de Lune, who was pregnant at the time, from auction to satisfy an objective. It's been a trial to increase her BLUP and win competitions because her GP and skills are so low. This is the result of her mom being bred before 100 BLUP and her dad having super low GP.
Aristophelle will probably be a spinster-aunt to my other horses, because getting her lineage's GP up-to-snuff would be a trial. On the other hand, if you check out her little brother, Argyle, in the tab below, you'll see that he has a 300%+ GP increase from their mom, which is the type of gains I'm going for in each generation. He'll become a gelding, so I guess poor Claire will hound them about grandkids until she's on her deathbed.
Contrarily, I foaled
Gossamer, and I'm excited to use her in my Camargue breeding program. Both of her parents are max BLUP, and she turned out great. In fact, she's got the highest GP of all my unicorns. I've got my fingers crossed for an awesome filly or two from her when the time comes.
Some disclaimers:
You might see mares in my farm that have been bred more than twice, or public coverings from my low-GP stallions before I castrate them.
In the case of the mares, it's because I bought them from other players who bred them before selling them. I will probably breed those mares once, when their GP is maxed out, and then retire them from breeding.
With the stallions-turned-geldings, it's because I'm trying to complete covering objectives. Please ignore my low-GP, low-BLUP covering offers if you see one. There are better stallions for your mare out there...Eventually, I hope to be the breeder-owner of some of them!