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What we've added recently. We run AlpacaKeep on a working alpaca farm before opening it up, and we keep this page current as things ship.

A breeding planner with inbreeding scores, whole-herd fibre tracking, and printable reports.

  • Breeding planner. Pick a female and the planner ranks the males you could put her to, scored on fleece fineness, density, fertility and colour. It also works out the inbreeding figure for each pairing, so you can tell when two animals are too closely related before you go ahead.
  • Whole-herd fibre tracking. Every histogram and shearing date sits on the animal's own record, and the herd page flags the ones that are due for testing. No more digging through a separate fleece spreadsheet.
  • Printable reports. Pull a PDF for a single animal, a sales sheet with a QR code that points back to the listing, or a fibre report for the whole herd.
  • A second free tool. There's now a Body Condition Score calculator alongside the gestation one. Score an animal in under a minute, no account needed.
  • German. The site and the guides now read in German as well as English and Italian. Two new guides went up too: one on coat colour genetics and lethal crosses, one on picking a first breed.
  • This page. There's now a changelog, in English, Italian and German, so you can see what changed each month.
  • Guides link to each other. Where a guide mentions something another guide covers, it now links straight there, and each guide ends with a short list of related reads. Easier to follow a thread without going back to search.
  • A few guides after you subscribe. When you sign up for updates, the confirmation now points you to a few more guides worth reading, instead of just a thank-you.

AlpacaKeep goes public with a free gestation calculator and a growing guides library.

  • AlpacaKeep is live on the web. The project has a public home, a clear story, and a name. We are building it on a working alpaca farm before we open it to everyone else.
  • A free gestation calculator. Enter a mating date, get the due window and the watch dates that matter. No account required.
  • A guides library. Practical, breeder-written articles on shearing timing, cria growth, body condition, deworming, and more, with a free calculator built into the ones that need one.