This was the single most helpful record I kept. The Rabbitry Journal: All my other extraneous records begone, and enter the Journal. – Handy Dandy Calendar: To doodle on regarding show dates and due dates. I mean, two years later, do we really care that Chad beat Rocky…AGAIN? – Show records when Grand Champion Legs are won: Placements that didn’t win legs became extraneous.

Easy reference to look up kits’ birth dates, as well as to keep track of which of your does consistently produce nice offspring. Tells you at a glance who was bred to who and when. – Income and Expenses: Not fun, but must be done. That way, when someone contacts you about the rabbit they sold them, you’re not sitting there wondering which rabbit they bought. – Rabbits Sold: Write down every bunny sold and who you sold it to. – Pedigrees of course: (Hint: custom-designed pedigrees are more fun than software-generated ones.) It wasn’t as sophisticated anymore, but I trimmed it down to the records I actually kept and needed. In fact, I hardly ever filled out most of them.Įventually I cut the fat out of my record book. I had a lot more fun making record sheets than I had filling them out. I had record sheets to track nearly everything: litters, shows, feed economics, health, hereditary traits, rabbits sold, chores accomplished, show quality of developing juniors, you name it. But which ones really matter?Īs a teen, I made up all kinds of record sheets for my bunnies. It’s a fact: if you want to be successful in raising show rabbits, record keeping is vital. (Scroll down to skip all the chit-chat and get straight to the free downloads.) What Records should you keep to Raise Rabbits Successfully?

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