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Do yalls record keeping on yalls collection?

LOL, on the lid of the boxes, see above post. I discontinue feed and shed records after their first year, unless they are a new acquisition.

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Todd Hughes

This is a hatchling tub, on yearlings it is on a note card on the top of the rack.

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Todd Hughes

I have tried the index card thing many times over the years, but I never stick to it.. So, i just keep my feeding records in my head.

I do keep breeding records though.. and for that i use a label maker and keep shed cycle dates and pairing records on each females box..

Dillon.. what state are you from?

~ Mike Russo

I live in georgia.

Ah, Georgia.. I don't hear "yalls" up here in NY too much. Not that our Yankee accents are any better!

~ Mike Russo

Lol yeah we got that southern voice lol YALL BE GOOD NOW YA HEAR! lol

That's too Funny Yo... Fugetaboutid!

~ Mike Russo

Lol thanks!

I use Degei software.

Each snake has a file on my computer where I keep feed, shed, breeding, lineage info etc. organized. I have a clipboard with a laminated chart with all the snakes I have on it for weekly feeding logs. Each week I copy the feed information into the computer files... erase the laminated chart and start again!

Works pretty slick for me, and I don't have notecards falling all over the place, lol.
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Aubrey Ross

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>>Do yalls record keeping on yalls collection?

i use two different systems.

The printed cards (on left in this image) usually record meals and sheds and infrequently, other notations. This one's on a female's cage during breeding season and shows sheds, copulations, and some feeding records as well as sheds. I keep these throughout an animal's life--they're pre-punched so they eventually go into a rolodex file. EVERYTHING I want to record about the animal appears on these cards. I use abbreviations--LRP for live rat pinky, for example. You shoudl figure out whatever abbreviations work intuitively for you, because that's all that matters--that YOU be able to interpret the notes.

The post it notes (right in this image) are used to record breeding activity only and move back-and-forth with the females when the females are moved from their cages to a male's cage (the pre-printed cards stay on the female's cage). They contain ONLY A SUBSET of the animal's records--the breeding records. (I use multiple females with each male so put the females only briefly with the male--once copulation's observed, and confirmed by expressing some semen and examining it for live sperm, the female's returned to her own box). I use this second set of cards because i don't want to look in a male's cage, see a female, and not be sure which one it is--HER card is always with her, whether she's in her own cage or a male's. The post-it notes record when she bred, with which male, and the sperm count. You'll see some / symbols on the post it (and on the other card) if you look closely; three of those is a maximum sperm count. You can also see she was paired several times without copulation occurring, before the successful breedings--highlighted in orange--occurred.

I hope that helps.