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I noticed you have a premium upgrade. Are you using normal breeding advice or Strict breeding advice. Are you using live cover? Those are the worst odds of ways you can breed.

20 is an abnormally large number of foals to not get any that pass breeding advice though.

Also looks like I need a part of the FAQ about how to increase your foal quality odds.

From worst to best odds of a good foal

Live Cover
Any Form of AI (like straws), or mares in pasture with 15 days of bonus
Mares in pasture with 30 days of bonus
Embryos being implanted into mares with 30 days of pasture bonus

Are you using normal breeding advice or strict breeding advice? Stick to normal if you want to get more intact foals. Just switching to using straws instead of live cover will help bump your intact foal rate.

Boosting does not cause you to have more intact foals. It increases the raw ability of the horse. It's generally a bad investment to get into boosts early on as they are most powerful for cap quality leaderboard prospects.

Embryos on mares with no pasture bonus have the exact same chance to produce intact foals as just using straws and straws are a lot cheaper.

As a newer player she does not have 30 day pasture bonus mares yet.

You certainly don't have to have two pastures if you don't want too. It is up to you how much you want to work to increase your intact foal rate.

I am working on an FAQ entry about creating intact foals. It's not done yet but you may find this section helpful

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The type of breeding method you select has a big impact on the number of intact foals you can expect. If you have two perfect foundation parents you can expect the following intact rates after testing. Other crosses will have different rates but still follow the general trends.

Cap quality foals always pass both forms of breeding advice tests.

Natural Breeding
Natural breeding includes live cover, done from the horse’s breeding tab, and pasture breeding, done from your pasture page. Mares, if left in pasture, will gain a bonus that increases by a small amount every day. You can breed your mares in the pasture at any time but they reach the maximum bonus at 30 days. For the best bonus leave them in as much as possible.

Live Cover or Pasture Breeding with 0 Days: 66% of foals will fail breeding advice, 33% will pass.
Pasture Breeding with 15 days: 57.5% of foals will fail breeding advice, 42.5% will pass.
Pasture Breeding with 30 days: 10.75% of foals will fail breeding advice, 89.25% will pass.


Artificial Breeding
These breeding methods require veterinary intervention and are accessible to members with basic or premium upgrades. (Remember you can purchase a basic upgrade with HBs!) Breeding using straws requires collecting the stallion from the breeding tab, then using the straw on the mare of your choice. Embryos can be created directly on the mare’s breeding tab for basic members, or using eggs for premium members. Embryos are then inserted into a surrogate mare (from the sire or dam’s page). The number of days the surrogate mare has been in a pasture also improves the foal odds.


Breeding Via Straw: 57.5% of foals will fail breeding advice, 42.5% will pass.
Embryo with 0 pasture day surrogate: 57.5% of foals will fail breeding advice, 42.5% will pass.
Embryo with 15 pasture day surrogate: 10.75% of foals will fail breeding advice, 89.25% will pass.
Embryo with 30 pasture day surrogate: 100% will pass.