New Bee Question about showing

[Rex Mom]

Can someone tell me how you keep track of your pure bred lines? Do you have some sort of computer program that you use? Are there pedigrees? Do you use a number system/leg bands to tell them apart? I show rabbits and was curious how it's done with chickens.

Thank you so much in advance for answering my question!

Susan

 

[monarc23]

legbands work well

and theres no pedigree registries for chickens that i know of but you can by all means make your own for your own records. I do it for my quails.

 

[Rex Mom]

Thank's for replying...
With the rabbits, I have a computer program that I enter my rabbits pedigrees on. All rabbits that are shown have an ear tattoo. The pedigrees help keep track of who was bred to who up to 4 generations back. I was just curious how those who show chickens keep track of their lines. I figured they would use leg bands.. but wondered how they document all the breedings, previous gens.

Susan

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

For marking your birds, legbands, wingbands and/or toe punching. For record keeping, zooeasy.com, breedbook.com or manual recordkeeping (spiral notebook, excel or access file, etc.)