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How RabbitKeeper works, in the order you will probably use it.

Add a rabbit

Choose Add rabbit on the Barn or Today page. Give it a name and fill in whatever else you know: ear number, sex, breed, variety, birth date, weight, registration numbers, sire and dam. If a parent is not in your herd yet, you can add its name and ear number as an ancestor. Ancestors are kept for the pedigree and do not appear in your barn.

Record a breeding

Choose Record breeding, pick the doe, the sire if you know him, and the date bred. RabbitKeeper works out the dates for palpating, the nest box, the kits due and weaning, and puts them on your Today page. Changing the date bred moves them to match.

Record a litter

When the kits arrive, open the breeding and choose Record litter. Enter the date they were born and how many were born and born alive. Then choose Add kits to put them in your barn with their parents and birth date filled in. When they are weaned, choose Mark weaned and enter how many.

The weaning reminder is counted from the litter's birth: 8 weeks after the date the kits were born. Before you record the litter, the weaning date is an estimate worked out from the breeding.

The Barn and Today pages

The Barn shows each active rabbit as a card with its hutch, name and status. Filter it by All, Need you, Bred, Nursing or For sale, and pick a card to see what it needs next.

Today lists what is due, grouped as Overdue, Today and This week, and shows the does that are bred and how far along they are. Each task has a button to do it, and you can dismiss one you do not need.

Pedigree and printing

Open a rabbit and choose Pedigree to see four generations. The page lists what is missing. Choose Print pedigree for a clean sheet, then use your browser's print command to print it or save it as a PDF.

Photos

Add photos from a rabbit's page. They can be JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB each, and up to 24 photos on each rabbit. Location data is removed from every photo. The first photo is the cover until you choose another.

Who can see a rabbit

Every rabbit has one of three settings, and you can change it at any time.

A shared or public pedigree shows the rabbit's ancestors for four generations back, by name, ear number and variety, even when their own pages are private. Public and shared pages show your RabbitTalk name and avatar. Your region is shown on your herd page and on your shared and public rabbit pages while your herd page is on, and on the breeders page while your herd is listed there.

The breeders listing

The breeders page lists herds whose owners have switched on "List my herd on the breeders page" in their profile. A herd is listed while it has at least one active public rabbit and its owner has signed in within the last 90 days. After 90 days without signing in, a herd leaves the listing. Its herd page and share links keep working, and signing in puts it back.

Warning emails

If your herd is on the listing, RabbitKeeper sends warning emails to the address on your RabbitTalk account before it comes off. The first goes out after 60 days without signing in, the second after 80 days, and the last when the herd comes off, after 90 days. Signing in starts the count again.

To stop them, untick the email box on your profile, or use the link at the bottom of any of the emails.

Export your records

On your account page you can download your rabbits, your breedings and litters, and your events (weights, notes, health entries and show entries) as CSV files that open in a spreadsheet. Photos are not included.

Delete my data

On your account page, choose Delete my data to remove all your records and photos and the details RabbitKeeper keeps about you. You will see exactly what will be deleted and be asked to type your herd name, or your RabbitTalk name if you have no herd, to confirm. It cannot be undone, and your RabbitTalk account is not affected.