I'm making a free flock management system

[silvergatefarms]

I think that your Idea is good as it is, i like what info you have on the start tab, also you might add the total number of chicks, adults and hatching eggs currently in possesion(kinda just a fun fact of the day)

 

[MareeZoCool]

" How-to determine the sexes of your chickens", with detailed photosof the combs, legs, & wings

 

[silvergatefarms]

I know I may be jumping ahead, but on the your flock tab. would have number of hens # of roos, breeding pens and whats in them, leg band numbers and year and colors breed and line they came from for each chicken.

 

[FiveHens]

Awesome! Flock records:

Chicken band #, breed, sex, date of birth, description, health notes, date of death, cause, parentage (if applicable)

Also think the dichotomous key for ailments is good, if you're up for that...

 

[RedfogsFlock]

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I agree, and how about maybe a place to put a pic? Maybe a place for defects? I have a girl that has a messed up beak.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

very interesting!

 

[JanieMarie]

It is isn't it Germaine. I have high hopes and am getting anxious. Just had to look up and figure out the ages of my birds AGAIN the other day!

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

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http://njaes.rutgers.edu/pubs/publication.asp?pid=4H263
This is where you can see the project book that the 4-H (in our area) is using now. I guess the 1 thing that really doesn't apply to ducks is the cock/hen section. Waterfowl are different as they go by drake/duck , gander/goose It would be great to seperate out by type of bird as 1 of my kids has guineas, a duck and a chicken for his project this year. Another has ducks and chickens. As far as printing out that I'm not good at. I know I for 1 do not have Microsoft Word and this does make life difficult as it seems everyone else does. I can read from word, but not do anything with it such as copy and paste, etc. Had a trial version in which I created documents and now I can only read them and can not make any changes to them.

http://www.openoffice.org is a free office suite that can do everything Microsoft Office can. It's what I use. But that would mean an extra download for anyone who wanted reports and who didn't have Word.

Could you try using a .PDF?

 

[TM Chickens]

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http://www.openoffice.org is a free office suite that can do everything Microsoft Office can. It's what I use. But that would mean an extra download for anyone who wanted reports and who didn't have Word.

Could you try using a .PDF?

Do you know how to make a pdf with python? I've looked but can't find anything. Right now I'm leaning towards making a .html file and automatically opening it in the user's default browser. There could be java-script in the page to print it.

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

Here is a toolkit that I found...

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Python-for-PDF-Generation/

Don't know if you tried it or not, but the HTML idea is a good one too...