Keeping accurate records is vital to your breeding. Tracking the results will help you to know which does are the best producers, which kindle the largest babies, etc. This will allow you to eliminate the poor producers, keep the offspring from best producers as replacement stock and fine tune your herd.
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Some things you'll want to track are:
- Ear # (Name)
- Breed
- Sire and Dam (lineage)
- Date of Birth
- Weight
- Date Breed
- Buck Breed With
- Kindled Date
- How Many Born Alive, How Many Dead
- Weight of young at 5 weeks (average)
- Weight of young at 8 weeks (average)
- Overall Litter Quality
You may also want to have information on their hutches for quick reference. Some of this information may be:
- Fertile Date (when they can be bred)
- Palpate Date
- Nestbox Date (when to put the nestbox in the cage)
- Fostering (either fostering out or in kits)
- Planned Rebreed Date
When you track you are better able to know what kind of results you're getting.
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