Does anyone keep their egg records in a spreadsheet? Wanna share?

[Yard full o' rocks]

NO...we keep President Carter down in his home town of PLAINS, Ga....way south of me (actually almost to the Fla line). I am in NW Georgia, about an hour NORTH of Atlanta.

On that hatching report, just fill in the start date and # eggs you are hatching, it computes the rest.

I print a copy, fill in the blanks as I candle, and hatch, then place it in a notebook for future ref purposes.

Thanks.....hot here today, almost 100. I am soooooo ready for Fall

 

[Junkmanme]

To: Yard full o' rocks

The notebook makes sense...easy to scribble notes if needed.

On the map, Cartersville looks to be only about 3 hours drive from the area in the Carolinas where most of my ancestors lived for centuries....the area between Greenville SC, Spartanburg SC, and Asheville, NC.

NICE Country!

Out here in New Mexico, a 3 hour drive is almost next-door! Ha-Ha!

It's been HOT here lately, too! But we don't get the humidity and being at 6500 feet elevation with generally a breeze......a HOT day is anything ABOVE 85 F. BUT it gets a little "chilly" in Winter!

-Junkmanme-

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

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I have an aunt and uncle right outside of Greenville, SC (in Pickens)....and it takes about 2 1/2 hours if Atlanta traffic is not too bad

 

[FenDruadin]

Thanks for posting those--awesome!

Unfortunately, the download gods seem to be angry tonight. I will try them again tomorrow (after sufficient expiatiatory sacrifices, of course).

I created something very simple for my own use, but I really want to see these others too!

 

[Junkmanme]

To: iamcuriousitycat

I LIKED your website! VERY PLEASING!

 

[FenDruadin]

Well, thank you, Junkman. I like to take pictures, and I love my family and my critters. Oh, and I like to talk. So it all comes together, I guess.

Thanks for the compliment. I appreciate it.

 

[bigkford]

Ok, I feel really outta place here. I still keep records of everything in books. I hand write everything in the whole 9 yards. I still don't get those spread sheets, one wrong button you mess up, same with a calculator. Keep it in black and white I'm good. Heck I still can't get a picture to come up on here. The other thing is I write small enough I can make notes above what I wrote if there is a change in anything to watch for. I guess I'm just different.

 

[FenDruadin]

bigkford--I bet you're actually in the majority there. I grew up with computers (I'm 35, so only *barely* young enough to have done so--my dad was very forward thinking and bought us one of the first home computers available), so I'm very comfortable using them for EVERYTHING. But I bet many folks who are interested in livestock are *not* as interested in computing, so I bet lots of folks do it by hand. Heck, Holderread's farm apparently does everything by hand, considering that you have to print and mail the order form through snail mail! lol

 

[bigkford]

I am 43 years young. 5 Kids and married 25 years. My two older kids go some out of computers, but my 3 younger ones can show us all a thing or two. And then some. Our first computer came along 14 (my one daughter was born on the 13th of nov, and we went for the day after day sale, spent 200. on our first computer) she will be 14 this year. That was the first time I did anything with a computer. I just still feel better doing alot of record keeping by hand because, Like I said I can write small enough even on college ruled paper to make notes above what I already wrote if something changed that day. I just feel safer that way. I still have all my records for the dogs we breed and trained for hunting coon. They upgrade these computers faster than I can aford to get anything so, I still like the old way. I do know a few mid size farms here that still do hand books and also computers. But the handbooks come out better.

 

[Riven]

I use excel, I set up a spread sheet that automatically puts in the dates to candle, move to the hatching tray, hatch date, then the hatch percentage. I'm still working the kinks out of it though, but I like to know when by just looking, and to be able to see the hatch percentage is really nice! I have to manually alter some calculations because it doesn't know how to move the date to the next moth and such, but it's okay for me! I always print it and keep the printed copies, computers can go bad if we rely on them too much we can lose lots of information!