AlpacaKeepThe mating recommender ranks your own animals so you can see good pairings at a glance. Go to the Breeding hub, open the Plan tab, and pick a dam (or a sire). AlpacaKeep lists ranked candidates from your herd, flags inbreeding, and warns about risky color crosses.
How it works
You choose one animal, and the recommender scores every suitable mate on your farm. Each candidate gets a card with an overall ranking plus a breakdown, so you can see why one match sits above another. It also shows the COI (coefficient of inbreeding, the inbreeding percentage) and raises a flag if a pairing is a risky color cross.
📷 Screenshot: the Plan tab with a dam selected and ranked sire cards below.
Set the goal
A goal preset decides what the ranking cares about most:
- Balanced (the default) weighs all the traits together.
- Fleece leans toward fiber quality.
- Outcrossing leans toward less related animals.
- Custom lets you set the mix yourself.
Behind the presets are five sliders. Move them to tell the recommender what matters to you:
- Fineness
- Density
- Low inbreeding (COI)
- Color safety
- Fertility
Raise a slider and that trait counts for more in the ranking.
Good to know. The recommender only ranks animals on your own farm. To breed to an outside stud, log the mating with him directly from Log mating.
The exact scoring math is internal, but the idea is simple: it rewards the traits you turned up, penalizes high inbreeding, and warns you about color crosses, so the safest, strongest matches rise to the top.
Related
- Inbreeding (COI): how closely related are two animals?
- The grey-on-white breeding warning (and what a DNA test changes)
- Breeding from mating to cria: the whole cycle