What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
At the moment I only have one doe and one buck, but I use excel. I have a laptop so it is fairly easy to tote it around if needed. I have 1 page for bucks, 1 for does, and one for litters.
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
Composition notebook. Each doe has a page. I right down date they were bred, projected delivery date and then how many babies. The parents information I just keep on my website.
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
I have a dry erase board in the barn, cage cards, and Evan's Software.
I rely most on the board and cards, since I don't always update the computer when I breed.
I rely most on the board and cards, since I don't always update the computer when I breed.
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
I have a binder a everyone's pedi's that I keep breeding records in, and a calendar in my office to use to project dates and such. Recently added a board in the shed to keep track of dates out there so I don't have to run back and forth to check. It's like a dry erase, picked it up at a show, but it has printed columns for sire, dam, date bred, palpitaded, kindled, number kindled, and a weaned column. Pretty handy to have, though you can easily make one yourself out of a dry erase board and a sharpie for like $3 when I paid $10 for this one. (First show, I had to overpay for some kind of equipment that was helpful yet unecessary!)
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
Different worksheets in Excel with various information. Works great!
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
I use a whiteboard, but I'll probably be adding a notebook.
I keep five months on the whiteboard at a time, one per line. When I finally need a new month, I erase the top line(s). Before:

After:

I did find that the only color to use long-term is black. Other colors don't clean off as well.
I keep five months on the whiteboard at a time, one per line. When I finally need a new month, I erase the top line(s). Before:
After:
I did find that the only color to use long-term is black. Other colors don't clean off as well.
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
I just use an extra paper wall calendar exclusively for the rabbits.
I also use color coded index cards to keep track of genotypes and litter histories.
I also use color coded index cards to keep track of genotypes and litter histories.
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
I'm simple and lazy. I have a composition book. Inside you'll find a page for each doe. I write the date bred, with whom, 31 day date and whatever the outcome turns out to be.
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
Before breeding,
I check out my Evans Rabbit program to see who should
be bred to whom. I go with a list to the Rabbitry to do my chores.
At that time I place those to be bred together.
I write the pertinent information on a pad i keep in the rabbitry.
When I get back to the house the information is placed in
my Evans rabbit program. The program will tell you when
you need to place a nestbox. I am constantly referring to my
Evans Rabbit program, I don't believe anyone should be without one!
As always, JMPO.
Ottersatin.
I check out my Evans Rabbit program to see who should
be bred to whom. I go with a list to the Rabbitry to do my chores.
At that time I place those to be bred together.
I write the pertinent information on a pad i keep in the rabbitry.
When I get back to the house the information is placed in
my Evans rabbit program. The program will tell you when
you need to place a nestbox. I am constantly referring to my
Evans Rabbit program, I don't believe anyone should be without one!
As always, JMPO.
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Re: What do you use for your breeding "calendar"?
I had to buy microsoft access for one of my classes. So I plan on using that. I also have several old notebooks so that I don't have to take my computer outside. I have 4 different pages covering supplies, rabbit health, the breeder from which I bought them from and breeding/kindling.
__________ Fri Feb 06, 2015 8:43 am __________
So instead of a man cave you have a rabbit cave.
Sound great. I have a small office in my home. It doubles as that and as housing for my orphans.
__________ Fri Feb 06, 2015 8:43 am __________
KKRabbitry wrote:We have a big dry erase board out in the barn that we write breeding info on.
I also recently started keeping a much more detailed notebook out in the barn.
For a while I used Evans software, but that kind of fell out of practice.......probably because I can't take the computer out in the barn!
(But that's next on the "to do" list......build an office in the rabbitry, complete with a computer, a swivel chair, a coffee maker, and a little tank of fish!)![]()
So instead of a man cave you have a rabbit cave.


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