organizing / nomenclature
I have a question for the next breeding season. I have taken over a dinker project from an ailing friend. I am not breeding anything this year but am planning to next.
My question is how do you name parents and offspring? The system I have 'inherited' is confusing and complex and I am planning on starting fresh and am hoping for suggestions or ideas of how.
Alex
Re: organizing / nomenclature
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kitedemon
I have a question for the next breeding season. I have taken over a dinker project from an ailing friend. I am not breeding anything this year but am planning to next.
My question is how do you name parents and offspring? The system I have 'inherited' is confusing and complex and I am planning on starting fresh and am hoping for suggestions or ideas of how.
Alex
What kind of system have you inherited? It would be much easier for us to help you if you gave an example.
Re: organizing / nomenclature
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LotsaBalls
Hmm I've been thinking about this also. It would be nice if everyone used some kind of standard system.
It'll never happen, lol :P
I use a google doc to keep track of clutches. Each animal gets an ID # w/sex, such as M1, M2, F1, F2, etc.
So I essentially ID the 3rd male I pop from the 2nd clutch to hatch this year as:
M3 from 2010 clutch #2
Each clutch has its own document to track feed records, morph info, and anything else of each animal.
The first thing listed is the parents of the clutch. It might not work as well if you have multiple sire clutches.
A big mistake people make especially with combo morphs is trying to incorporate morph information into a hatchling's designation. This is what creates messy and difficult-to-read systems. Less information in nomenclature is better.
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My system rocks..... I name my animals and use their name.... then again I have less than 25 so its relatively easy that way
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We do it a little differently.
For our breeder animals we acquire we just give them a name and a # and list the morph. Since we aren't selling them any time soon.
Like: Spaz-M1-Pastel
The babies we produce are labeled as such:
C4-10-F1-FR (Clutch 4 - 2010 - Female 1 - Fire)
This way there is a direct link in their label to their clutch # (and parentage).
For possible hets it would look like this: C1-10-F1-50%PHPIED