I wrote my own web based database, and run it as a back-end to my website. This gives me quick details about an animal if someone needs a history of a particular animal they purchased, or want to purchase.

It also allows me to quickly populate and modify the for-sale portion of our public site, (which is almost empty this month)

I use a wireless barcode scanner, and barcodes on each animals tub, so I can quickly scan feedings and sheds. Even my scale is now wired into the computer, and entering a weight is as quick as putting an animal on the scale, pushing one button on the scale, and scanning the tub barcode.

Feeding records are quick too, I open the right page, select the date, and what I'm feeding, (like Live Small Rat) then scan every animal that got one of those, walk back to the computer, and click submit. If they had two, I just scan them twice.

I've been asked a few times to make it available to others, but it's so tightly entwined into my own site, that I would have to start over with a rewrite to do so.

Prior to this, I used an index card for each animal, but then I dreaded feeding day.