While I've only barely begun trying to breed reptiles, I've just recently earned my Master's in Library & Information Science with special focus in archives and records management. As I've been looking for gainful employment as an Archivist and thinking a lot about records in general, I've wondered how breeders in the herp community keep their records.

My own practices are fairly simple due the small number of critters I have - just Excel spreadsheets on each individual animal. It has their basic info such as species, sex, provenance, as well as shed and feed charts. Would anyone who breeds and keeps on a larger scale like to chime in on your own recordkeeping practices? Do you use exclusively paper records or do you use some sort of database software like FileMaker Pro? What about mobile apps? I've been tooling around with a bunch of half-baked ideas on this based on practices from the RM/archives/library fields, but I'd love to hear input on what people are doing already.