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If you could get software to help with your record-keeping, what would you want it to do?
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Thanks Kevin

that's is a program to help with record keeping. I think it's called Metzcal or something like that...
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well, I keep track of
-who bred who (including all traits, hets of both snakes),
-how many eggs were laid and after how many days from breeding (if it was witnessed),
-how many of those eggs were duds, how many died in incubation,
-when the eggs hatched and how many days after being laid,
- and finally, what the results were (male vs. female and genetic results).

Maybe throw in incubating conditions.
Oh, and then I also pay attention to how many of the survivng neonates eat.

that is what I keep track of. Hope this helps
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Life is Killing Me"

A Main menu for Breeding, Maintenance, and Add/Remove Animals

In breeding - All your adults would have systematic labels. You'd have an easy way to connect 2 snakes together and the software would automatically label the offspring once you get an egg count. it could automatically do the punnet square thing and predict the overall outcome, and you could edit the final results based on actual hatchings.

For maintenance, it would be simple record keeping for feeding, weights, water, cage cleaning, whatever....

Add/remove animals would be the record of each animal with fields for locale or breeder on it, date of acquisition, lineage, whatever. Each trait would be represented by a short code, and the software would build a snake label based on these codes and the sex. It would then later on use the same codes to hash out the breeding potential, or at least offspring labels.

I wouldnt want to have to design something like that, it'd be a nitemare, but if I were gonna buy some, thats what I'd look for.
Oh, and a photo gallery for each animal too. Maybe only 1 pic per animal, to be used as thumbnail icon next to the serial number.

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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

Don't forget stools, regurges, and a "personal notes" area.
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I would want it to be a php web application with at least a MySQL backend (though other DBs as options are OK too) so that I can run it on my LAN server and access it from any computer.

I want php/MySQL because that doesn't tie it down to any particular operating system.
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....preferably with a nice face on it for ease of use.

All the things misty mentioned for fields linked to each parent as well as feeding and shed records for every animal(adult and baby).

Also a form that will auto fill from the recorded fields all the genetic%'s and feeding/shed records and sire/dam names/id's to be printed out and sent with each baby sold.

LOL I'd prolly work on one(been meening to do something more formal for my records) over summer if I had the web end knowledge and DB's other then FileMaker Pro.

Anyone know of any decent free relational DB's?

Locsmith you looking to write a progy to do this or just inquiring? If you are looking to code one then let me know if you want any help.

If not then is anyone out there interested in working on something like this as a project? I have no real webcoding experience but I have a little over 20 years of off and on experience with a handful or two of different compilers depending on how you count em.

Lemme know if so, it's been awhile since I did any coding and this might be fun practice/warmup.

Sean.