Kidding Season Workflow

Kidding season is the busiest six weeks of the year. This is the sequence that keeps it manageable.

Before

Check every breeding is recorded with an accurate date. Everything downstream — due dates, tasks, alerts — is built on those dates
Verify due dates on the Calendar. For pasture breedings, note the whole kidding window, not one date
Let the auto-generated tasks work. Pre-kidding CDT and Selenium/BoSe reminders create themselves from due dates — you don't need to add them
Turn on kidding notifications if they aren't already. Kidding Due and Kidding Overdue are on by default, and a doe due within about six hours overrides quiet hours
Fill in emergency info — vet and after-hours numbers. Do it now, not at 3am
Work through the kidding checklist for supplies and stall setup

Watch the Breeding tab for does approaching their window
Use the kidding checklist as labour starts
Record the kidding afterwards — labour, assistance, placenta, and per-kid details. Kid profiles are created automatically, so this is the one entry that matters most
Log birth weights while you're there. It's thirty seconds and it's unrecoverable later
Record the first-day care — navel, colostrum, selenium

Record it after, not during

Get the kids dry, breathing, and nursing. The app will still be there in an hour. Nobody has ever lost a kid because the paperwork was late.

Start a lactation for each freshened doe — this is what enables days-in-milk, curves, and 305-day projections
Begin logging milk
Work the nursery — kids appear automatically, with milestones for disbudding (~day 7), CD&T (~day 42), banding, and weaning. Log the health record and the milestone ticks itself off
Weigh kids regularly — the nursery's Weigh All runs the whole group in one pass. Falling intake shows up on the scale before it shows anywhere else
Log bottle feedings for any kids you're supplementing
Match kids to reservations and update your waiting list