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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 redesigned dashboard, animal profiles and fibre hub, clearer breeding due dates, and a steadier importer for bringing a herd across.

  • Move an animal to another farm. When you sell or pass an animal to another farm, you can record the move in one step. The animal's history and pedigree stay intact, and when both farms use the app the record links up on both sides. The buyer can note what they paid so it shows in their accounts.
  • Breeding, all on one page. The breeding page now lets you log a mating, record a spit-off test, and confirm a pregnancy without changing screens. And where the planner used to rank males for a chosen female, you can now pick a male and see which of your females suit him, scored the same way.
  • Quick log. A new slide-out lets you record one thing, a jab, a weight or a note, against one animal or a whole group in a few taps, straight from the events list or a keyboard shortcut. The full session form is still there for bigger jobs.
  • A medicine cabinet. Keep a list of the medicines you have on hand, with batch numbers and expiry dates, and the app flags the ones going out of date. When you log a dose it works out when the animal is clear to sell again, and a report shows you who is clear today.
  • Save a treatment recipe. If you give the same treatment the same way each time, save it as a protocol and apply it in one click. You can also set the follow-up or booster dose at the moment you log the first one.
  • Your own routines. Alongside the built-in task templates, you can now save your own recurring routines and reuse them.
  • Tasks and events, tidied up. The Tasks and Events pages have a cleaner layout that works better on a phone, with bulk select and an undo on the events list. "Today" and "overdue" now follow your farm's own timezone, which you set in Settings.
  • Body condition in one place. Weight and body-condition score now sit in a single card on the animal's health tab, so you can record both at once.
  • A calmer, clearer dashboard. We rebuilt the home screen so the numbers and updates that matter most are easier to take in at a glance.
  • A fresh look for animal profiles. Each animal's profile now uses the full width of the screen, with a tidier actions menu so it is easier to see what you can do from one place.
  • The fibre hub is easier to read. A new chart shows where each animal sits against the rest of the herd, you can filter straight to the ones overdue for testing, and the grade bands now match each species. Tap an animal to open its full fibre detail in a pop-up without losing your place.
  • Clearer due dates and a breeding history. Gestation now counts from the actual mating date, and the progress bar is shaded by stage so you can see how far along each dam is, with milestone notes you can tap along the way. A new season-by-season history lets you look back over past matings, and the mating suggestions load faster.
  • Note an animal's eye colour. A simple optional field, handy for buyer disclosure on blue-eyed white animals.
  • Undo a spreadsheet import in one click. If a bulk import did not go the way you wanted, one button rolls the whole batch back.
  • The whole app in German. German was already on the website and the guides. Now the app itself reads in German too.
  • Bringing a herd across. If you are moving from another system, the spreadsheet importer is steadier and handles more of the quirks in exported files.
  • Smaller touches. Pages load quicker with placeholders while they fill in, Settings and list pages got a cleaner look, animal records gained a bloodline field and progeny photos, contacts gained website and herd-code fields, you can choose how registered names are shown, animal ages now read naturally in each language, and the Projected Births and Animal Summary report sheets are more compact.
  • New guides. Two more in-depth reads went up, one on pedigree and inbreeding, one on fibre grades, plus accuracy fixes to the shearing and cost guides.

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.