How My Farm Is Organized

[Tenacious Equine]

This is my current setup; I use a modified version of this on all of my accounts. Please keep in mind:

• I do not freeze broods. I only occasionally freeze studs.

• I sometimes test studs untrained; I do not do this with mares.

• I retire mares usually between 15 and 20 years of age, generally right around 16-17. They sit in age out/sales pastures for a while.

• I use my age out pastures as sales pastures for retired mares.

This setup helps me keep track of how many mares I am currently breeding, where the next mares I want to use when I retire my current ones are, and all of my foals- on an account with maxed broodmares- in probably the most efficient way possible. I breed competitive movement horses on this account, so I cull pretty strictly.

I use:
-6 LARGE pastures for broodmares. This perfectly fits the maximum amount of broodmares for an account without any sort of upgrade (does the max horse paid upgrade boost broodmares as well? no idea), which means you can make sure you're always using the correct number of broodmares without having to poke around pastures.
-3 LARGE pastures for foals. I currently have 2 for fillies, one for colts. I cull colts way more heavily than fillies. The turn foals are born, they are moved to a foal pasture. When they hit 3-4 (younger with colts since I transfer them to my barn for testing) they leave the foal pastures.
Please note that if you are more generous with keeping foals, you may want to use additional foal pastures.
-2 LARGE barns. One is supposed to be for sales horses but I keep using it as overflow. One is for testing stallions and housing my competition horses.
-2 LARGE pastures for unbred mares. These are mares aged 4 and over who haven't yet been put into breeding rotation. I try to rotate through my mares fast enough that I don't use the second pasture.
-2 LARGE pastures for aging out horses. When I'm done using a mare for breeding, she goes there. Obsolete studs also will end up there, but because I train almost the majority of my studs on this account, that doesn't happen often.
-2 pastures for training and misc horses. Any horse I'm training from birth starts in the pasture for at least 6 months. Size of these pastures doesn't matter; they're just for anything "extra" you end up with.
-I also have 1 pasture for public studs. This is self explanatory. I put stallions I am not using for my own program in there.

Setting this up takes:
14 LARGE pastures = $265.8K or 3332 PT
2 LARGE barns = $79.3K or 1138 PT
Optionally, 2 pastures of whatever size for unsorted horses = $12.7K or 294 PT (or greater)

Farm size 4x4 minimum without unsorted horse pastures, or 4x5/3x6 for with.