I’ve been working behind the scenes to prepare for a major update to LambTracker® that will introduce many new features. The biggest changes include full tracking of feeds, ownership, and locations.

It’s been a long time since I posted. For the last couple of years, we’ve been using LambTracker® for all of our sheep data tracking. Lots of things need improvement, and my list of enhancements I want to implement gets longer every day, but overall, it works well.

We got a few minor bug fixes done. We corrected calculations for the age of the sheep when putting in the carcass weight.

Our annual flock inspection went well. We discussed a bunch of potential user interface and use case options with our veterinarian. I still did all the queries to produce the reports by hand, but I also developed some new query code that provides more information in a better format.

We used LambTracker® during shearing to print labels for wool samples and fleeces that I saved for sale. We found a few bugs in the system and worked on them. Now we’re trying to clean up stuff for the Federal Scrapie Flock Inspection.

All lambing is done now. I’ve got a lot of work to do to finish my Master’s Degree, so LambTracker® is going to take a back seat until early 2016.

We are nearing the end of lambing season. We only have six ewes yet to lamb, and this year, we uncovered a few more lambing bugs. Most have been fairly minor.

I’m making some changes to the database structure based on feedback from other rare breed breeders. I’ve moved the registration info out to a separate set of tables to account for sheep that may be part of more than two registries.

After a bit of a hiatus, I am back at updating LambTracker®. We have been doing our normal tasks, like moving breeding rams, by doing required changes to the database by hand.