Track Long-Term Breeding Goals With Projects
Create a project workspace, assign rabbit-specific roles, and track free-text or structured assessments over time.
Create a practical breeding project, connect the rabbits and records that belong to it, and use the project to guide decisions without changing normal rabbit workflows automatically.
10-15 minutes
Desktop: Open Projects from the left sidebar.
Mobile: Tap the menu button, then tap Projects.
- Add any rabbits you already know you want to use. You can add more later.
- Write a short main goal in everyday language, such as “Improve body depth while keeping broken black color.”
- Remember that project roles and rabbit statuses are separate; you do not need to change a rabbit status before adding it.
Overview
- Projects are workspaces for long-term breeding goals. They keep the goal, participating rabbits, observations, lineage, kit plans, reports, and recommendations together.
- A project is different from a Rabbits section. Sections and statuses describe where a rabbit belongs in day-to-day operations, while a project explains why that rabbit matters to a breeding goal. A rabbit can belong to more than one project without moving sections.
- Projects are organizational and advisory. Adding a rabbit, recording a kit decision, or viewing a recommendation does not change rabbit status, move a rabbit to another section, create a sale or harvest record, or save a breeding for you.
When To Use
- You are working toward a color, type, show, meat, wool, temperament, outcross, or custom goal over several breedings or generations.
- You want to compare prospects, keep dated assessments, or remember why particular rabbits and litters were part of a plan.
- You want project-specific reports and recommendations without changing how the same rabbits are organized elsewhere in Rabbitry Run.
Step-By-Step Guide
Create the project and describe the goal
Start with enough detail to recognize what success means without turning the project into a complicated record.
Open Projects from the sidebar. On mobile, tap the menu button first, then tap Projects.
- You should see Current and Archived project tabs and the Create Project action.
Choose Create Project, enter a clear name and main goal, then select the category that best matches the work.
- Available categories include Color, Type, Meat, Wool, Show, Temperament, Outcross, and Custom.
- Use Custom when the goal does not fit the supplied categories.
- Use a name you will recognize later, such as “Chocolate Rex Type” or “Calm Family Lines.”
- Keep the main goal specific enough to guide future choices.
Add short labels for the qualities or outcomes you want to improve, such as body depth, color, growth, wool density, or temperament.
- Priorities guide summaries, assessments, and recommendations.
- They do not change the rabbit’s genotype or other rabbit data.
Use Planning while you are setting up, Active while the work is underway, Paused when it is temporarily on hold, or Completed when the goal is finished.
- Archiving is separate from lifecycle status. A Completed or Paused project can be archived without losing that meaning.
- The project now has a clear purpose, category, lifecycle status, and optional priorities.
Add rabbits and explain their project roles
Project membership adds context to a rabbit without moving it or changing its normal status.
Open the project, choose Rabbits, then add one rabbit or use Add Multiple Rabbits for a group.
- You can search and filter the available rabbits by status.
- A rabbit may belong to several projects at the same time.
- Clear the search or status filter.
- Check whether the rabbit is already in this project.
Assign the role that describes how the rabbit is being used in this project, such as Foundation Doe, Main Breeder, Outcross, Keeper, Prospect, Watchlist, or a custom role.
- Project roles do not replace Active, Grow-out, For Sale, Sold, Ancestor, or other rabbit statuses.
Use membership notes for context that belongs to this project, such as why the rabbit was selected or what you want to watch.
- Editing the rabbit profile changes the rabbit record. Editing its project role or notes changes only the project membership.
You can also review and manage project memberships from the Projects tab on an existing rabbit profile.
- The rabbit profile should list its project memberships and links back to each project.
- The project lists the rabbits involved and explains each rabbit’s purpose without changing herd organization.
Record observations, lineage, and kit plans
Use these records to preserve what you saw and what you intend to do, while keeping the original rabbit, breeding, and litter records independent.
Use Notes & Assessments for dated observations. Choose Assessment when the entry evaluates a rabbit; free-text assessments are always allowed.
- An assessment can keep a small name and tattoo snapshot so it remains understandable if the rabbit is later deleted.
Edit the project to make selected priorities Scored priorities, then record consistent 1–10 scores in rabbit assessments.
- Choose whether a higher score, lower score, or score closest to a target is preferred.
- A project priority does not have to be scored.
- Scores provide evidence for review; they never change rabbit status or project role automatically.
Use Breedings & Litters to explicitly add the records that belong to this goal.
- If a linked breeding produces a new litter, its project links copy to that litter once at kindling.
- Later changes to the breeding links do not silently rewrite the litter links.
Open a tracked kit row in Litters and record the project’s current plan, such as Keep, Watch, Sell, Grow Out, Move Project, or Custom.
- Move Project decisions remain visible in the source and destination projects.
- The decision can remain useful after promotion because the project keeps kit and litter context.
- A kit decision does not change kit or rabbit status and does not create a sale, cull, processing, or harvest record. Complete those workflows separately when you are ready.
- The project now carries dated evidence, explicit breeding and litter history, and current kit plans without mutating the source records.
Review progress and decide what to do next
The review tabs turn the records you entered into useful context while leaving final decisions with you.
Use Priority Trends to see score history by rabbit and project-wide summaries based on each rabbit’s latest score.
- Using the latest score per rabbit prevents frequently assessed rabbits from overpowering the project average.
Open Reports for membership breakdowns, linked breeding and litter outcomes, kit-decision summaries, keeper rate, assessment trends, CSV downloads, and the printable project PDF.
- Reports reflect the records currently available and retained snapshots; they are not a permanent legal audit ledger.
Use Activity for the system-generated history recorded after the Activity feature was released, including meaningful membership, lineage, decision, promotion, lifecycle, and archive events.
- Notes and assessments remain separate because they are editable breeder records rather than automatic activity.
Use Recommendations to compare advisory pairings based on project roles, assessments, suitability, genetics, and explicitly linked outcomes.
- Use Plan this pairing to carry a selected doe, buck, goal, and project into the Breeding Planner.
- Review every warning and make the final breeding decision yourself.
- Recommendations never save a breeding or change project or rabbit records automatically. You must review and save the breeding in the Breeding Planner.
Archive a project when you want to preserve it as read-only. Restore it before editing metadata, memberships, entries, links, or decisions again.
- Archived projects remain available under the Archived tab for history, reports, activity, and recommendations.
- You can review progress, use advisory recommendations, and preserve completed work without surrendering control of operational records.
You're Done When
- You can explain the difference between a project membership and a Rabbits section or status.
- The project has a clear goal and the participating rabbits have useful project roles.
- Relevant assessments, breedings, litters, or kit plans appear in the appropriate project tabs.
- You understand that reports and recommendations summarize or advise; they do not perform breeding, sales, status, section, cull, or harvest actions automatically.
Common Mistakes
- Using rabbit status to represent a project role instead of choosing a project-specific role.
- Assuming parent membership automatically links every breeding or litter. Project lineage links are explicit.
- Expecting a priority or assessment score to modify genotype data or automatically promote a rabbit.
- Expecting a kit decision or recommendation to complete another workflow without your confirmation.
If Something Still Looks Wrong
Why is a rabbit missing when I try to add it?
Clear the search and status filter, then check whether the rabbit is already a member of the project. Retained rabbit statuses may be added; the filter only changes what is visible.
Why did a litter not appear in the project?
Litter links are explicit. A breeding passes its links to a new litter once when the litter is created, so link the breeding before kindling or add the existing litter to the project manually.
Why is there no kit decision button in the project?
Kit decisions are recorded from tracked kit rows in Litters. Return to the litter, open the kit workflow, and record the project decision there.
FAQ
Can one rabbit belong to more than one project?
Yes. Each project can give the rabbit a different role and project-specific notes without changing the rabbit’s normal section or status.
Does adding a rabbit to a project change its status?
No. Membership, role, notes, assessments, and kit decisions do not change rabbit status or move the rabbit between sections.
Will a recommendation create a breeding?
No. Plan this pairing only prefills the Breeding Planner. Review the pairing and save it yourself if you decide to proceed.
What kinds of goals work well as projects?
Projects work for color, type, show, meat, wool, temperament, outcross, and custom goals. Use the category that best describes the program and explain the specific outcome in the main goal.
When To Contact Support
- A saved project, membership, assessment, link, or decision repeatedly disappears after refresh or sync.
- A project action changes a rabbit status, section, sale, harvest, or breeding record unexpectedly.
- The project page cannot load even after refreshing and confirming the rest of the app is available.
Still Stuck?
If the guide got you close but the app still does not match what this tutorial says should happen, contact support and mention the article title, the exact step where you got stuck, and what you saw instead.