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What is good record keeping?

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What do people like to see as far as record keeping? Eating history I know, but how detailed. Also how about date of shedding, defecation, and??? Does this matter. Not to try and reinvent this, is there any good forms that people like to use. Thanks
 
Hi, :)

I think that it is pretty much up to you what addittional information (other than feeding history) that you want to keep records of; I've seen different people do different things. :)

Personally, in my snake records I record:
1) The date the snake was fed
2) If the snake ate or refused its meal
3) What it ate (pre-killed, frozen thawed, etc.)
4) The amount it ate (two pinkies, 1 fuzzy, etc.)
5) Sheds (altough I'm not as consistant with this.)
6) If anything is out of the ordinary (refused meal, stuck shed, etc. I make a note of it.)

Here is an example of a chart that I use.


Date fed: Ate/Refused: What it ate/amount: Notes:

________ __________ ____________ ____________________
10-20-06 Ate 1 F/T small rat Shed 10-15-06
________ __________ ____________ ____________________

________ __________ ____________ ____________________

________ __________ ____________ ____________________

________ __________ ____________ ____________________


Hope this helps a bit. :)
 
humm, well looks like when I copy & pasted the chart is all didn't line up right in the post... :rolleyes: Hopefully you get the general idea though. :)
 
Do you guys keep records for all of your snakes or just the ones you intend to sell.. I don't have any I intend to sell, but I have been keeping records since I got them, but now it is seeming somewhat pointless to me. Why do you keep records other than for selling them?
 
Hi Chris,

I keep a seperate record for each snake in my collection (most of these, almost all, are our adult breeders or future breeders and they are not for sale.) I keep a record for every snake reguardless of if it is for sale or if it's a "keeper." :) Records are just a very convenient thing to have and look over if you ever need to... Plus, if you ever do decide to sell the snake, then you already have a record for it. :)
 
You keep records because by looking at them you can know if there is possibly something wrong. An unhealthy snake might refuse a couple of meals or its defecation might be off a bit. You would probably never know unless you kept good records. Most snakes wont show any outward signs of illness until it is quite advanced so by keeping good records you can see if something is off before it becomes life threatening.

Personally we use the degei database to keep all of our records for snakes that we sell as well as the ones we keep. We keep records of all feedings and sheds. We have the dates of all feedings as well as what eat one was fed, if it ate or refused. Date it went blue, date of actual shed. I try to keep record of defications also but I'm not as good at it as I am the shed and feeding records.
Also keep records of where all snakes were purchased, who they were purchased from and how much we paid. Dame and sire info if we have it, date of birth. I probably go overboard on my record keeping but I prefer to be well informed and it gives me more to give my customers when I sell a snake.
 
I print out one two sided copy of the below Excel file for each snake I have on a heavy paper stock and record all important information on that. I do have lapses where I could keep better records. You really can't keep too many records, it helps to go back and review past records when something goes wrong. I keep all the old records for reference although I've never used them - maybe someday.

I also keep the original purchase record and history of each animal.

I will go to an electronic method of record keeping as soon as I get the inspiration to put a PC in my basement snake room.
 

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