What do you use for your breeding "calendar"? : Ethical Rabbit Raising for the Pet Market - Page 2

Sagebrush · Post Number:**#16** by **Sagebrush** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:56 pm

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.

ckcs · Post Number:**#17** by **ckcs** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:05 am

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.

MamaSheepdog · Post Number:**#18** by **MamaSheepdog** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:11 am

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.

PSFAngoras · Post Number:**#19** by **PSFAngoras** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:44 am

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!)

jimmywalt · Post Number:**#20** by **jimmywalt** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:33 pm

Different worksheets in Excel with various information. Works great!

Miss M · Post Number:**#21** by **Miss M** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:10 pm

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.

Zass · Post Number:**#22** by **Zass** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:14 pm

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.

ckcs · Post Number:**#23** by **ckcs** » Sat Nov 29, 2014 10:34 pm

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.

ottersatin · Post Number:**#24** by **ottersatin** » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:19 am

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. :oldtimer:

wamplercathy · Post Number:**#25** by **wamplercathy** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:44 am

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 __________

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!)