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Planned Breedings

Planning a season and recording a breeding are different jobs. Planned breedings let you sketch out who goes with whom months ahead without touching your actual breeding records.

Where to Find It​

Breeding tab → 📌 Planned Breedings

Each goat's profile also shows any plans involving that animal.

Creating a Plan​

Plans come out of the Breeding Planner. Analyze a doe and buck, then save the pairing with:

  • Target year and season — fall 2026, spring 2027
  • Status — planned, active, completed, cancelled
  • Goals and notes — why this pairing, what you're selecting for
  • A genetics snapshot — the coefficient of inbreeding and match rating at the time you planned it

Nothing about a plan affects your herd records. It's a decision written down.

The COI Snapshot​

Every plan stores the inbreeding coefficient calculated when you created it, so a pairing that's too close gets caught while it's still an idea.

COI is only as good as the pedigrees behind it

An incomplete pedigree produces a COI that reads lower than the true relatedness — missing ancestors can't reveal shared ones. Treat a low number from a thin pedigree as unknown, not safe. If you've extended or corrected pedigrees since planning, re-run the analysis for current figures.

Printing the List​

🖨️ Print on the Planned Breedings card produces a clean list for the barn wall or a PDF to share with a co-breeder. It contains:

  • A checkbox column for working through the list
  • Doe, registration or tag, buck, COI, match rating, status, and notes
  • Rows grouped by season, sorted alphabetically by doe so you can find an animal fast
  • A By Buck summary — each buck with his assigned does and a count, which is the view you actually want when sorting pens

The printout respects whatever filters you have set, and says so at the top when something is being excluded, so a printed sheet is never quietly incomplete.

Use your browser's print dialog to save it as a PDF rather than printing on paper.

From Plan to Breeding​

When the breeding happens, record it normally and link it to the plan. The plan moves to completed and stays as a record of what you intended — useful the following year when you're deciding whether it worked.

Filtering​

Filter by year, season, status, doe, or buck. Cancelled plans and seasons older than last year are hidden by default; both can be toggled back on.

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