400+ horses! ahhhhhh

hi i'm wox and i have a hoarding problem ♥ 

somehow i just end up at the equine center and suddenly I've spent millions of EVD raising my horse capacity limit and have a truly obscene number of horses. i have definitely learnt my lesson, but I'm still stuck with the issue of more horses than i realistically have time for. 

for my current "generation" (spans horses aged 3 years to 17 years), i have 364 paired horses plus 59 horses that I don't intend on breeding. it'll get easier once the older horses in this generation retire (i am going to lock all foals so wont need to worry about them), but I'm going to have even more horse next generation. this sucks because it takes me so long to get through my horse care each day, and I think i'd get burnt out.

Even though I only want to keep 1 foal from each pair, I'm going to have to breed each pair 1-3 times so I have a better chance of getting the genes that I want (my focus is colour and stats). 

what should i do with the extra foals? I don't really want to sell them since they'd be quite poor quality, and I feel bad about sending them to an "early retirement" either via the rescue centre or by not feeding them. the extra foals from my current gen I've just been putting through riding school, but even that requires a sizable chunk of time.

what would you guys do? SOS :P 

What do you mean by low quality, low stats? 

Personally if you're breeding at the end of life and they're showable I'd sell the foals if they have decent overall stats (300+). Otherwise just retire/rescue if you don't have time for upkeep. 

You always can keep the majority of unwanted foals locked. Unlock 5 foals and ride-school them until retirement. Once they retire, unlock another five. It's more manageable if you do it in small batches instead of unlocking all of the foals. Since you don't plan to breed them, you always can just ignore foal training and do minimum care for them to keep them alive until retirement.

@maple
By low quality I mean that they're not really horses that I'm proud of - I would prefer to be contributing nicer horses (lower NSS, rarer colours, better confo) to the EV selling pool. Which doesn't really matter I suppose! Now that I think about it, my bigger concern is probably the idea of my lines being overbred and making it more difficult for me to find studs/broodmares in the future without risking inbreeding, which I want to avoid at all costs.

@Lucia 
I like this idea a lot, thank you for suggesting it :) had only considered an all or nothing approach up until now. 

No problem! Glad I could help!
I use a similar method with my own foals. I am trying to get them all aged up to 3 yrs old so they will be ready to go once the new stats update is released. Foal training can be a little tedious because I have to scroll down and choose the correct training for the day. I decided to do it in smaller batches. I usually have 10-15 foals unlocked at a time. Once they reach 3 yrs old, I locked them again and swap them with other foals. It's much more manageable!

I just retire unneded foals. Inbreeding is not a problem at all if there are at least 6 pairs.

I keep 2 alive foals from each mare and ~10 from one stallion.

In one breeding cycle, 1 stallion mate from all mares. The sex ratio is 1 stallion to 2 mares. If skew occurs, in the next breeding cycles I leave more foals of the desired sex, using 2-3 stallions from one father at a time.

I start breeding mares from the age of 10, stallions closer to old age. The best foals are trains to competitions.

Maybe not so pedantic, but you can quickly select by coat, confo and nss. Stats will rise on their own with time.

Yes, I have 750 horses and I'm not going to stop. But I also have a lot of breeds. For 1 breed of one direction, 2 divisions are enough, not counting the competition.