RatteryLog Where Every Pup in the Litter Went
Right after a litter is placed with new owners or selected to remain in the colony, it feels easy to remember which pup ...
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RatteryLog Same Pair, Different Litter: Comparing Results Side by Side
Pairing the same sire and dam again months later can produce a visibly different litter. On paper, the parentage is iden...
RatteryLog Counting Down to a Due Date, Then a Weaning
With more than one pairing active at once, each at a different stage of development, it becomes easy to lose track of wh...
RatteryLog Litter Day, Pedigree, and the Numbers Behind a Rattery
After months of careful planning, monitoring, and daily husbandry, a breeder naturally wants to share a major milestone ...
RatteryLog Moving a Rattery’s Records to a New Phone
Choosing to keep rattery records fully offline and private means there is no automatic cloud sync running quietly in the...
RatteryLog From Pairing to Pedigree: Tracking a Rattery’s Full Story
A paper pedigree and record form based on traditional association standards works well enough when managing a single pai...
RatteryLog Sire, Dam, and the Day You Started the Clock
A pairing often only gets written down informally, or not at all until the litter arrives. When a sire and dam are place...
RatteryLog What a Litter Record Should Hold
The day a litter arrives is chaotic. Counting newborn pups, checking the dam, and settling everyone into a clean nest le...
RatteryLog When a Name Shows Up Twice: Reading Your Own Pedigree
A pedigree only starts telling you anything useful once it spans three or four generations at once—and tracing that many...
RatteryLog Checking a Color Chart Before You Commit to a Pair
A paper color genetics chart based on official association standards allows breeders to cross-reference trait combinatio...