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October 13, 2026 Update

October 13 Update

A short one, mostly fixes. A sick animal is easy to spot on My Herd, a sold animal typed into a show's entry form now counts as sold, big results emails go through, and secretaries can see when an email didn't send.

Your herd

  • A Sick chip on My Herd. An animal marked Sick — don't show on a health record has a red Sick chip by its name on My Herd, in the app too, so it's easy to find. It goes away when you press Mark well again on its page.
  • Health records bring you back to Health. After Add, Mark well again or Remove, the animal's page comes back at its Health section instead of the top.
My Herd, with a red Sick chip under the first animal's name
The Sick chip on My Herd.

Sold animals

  • A sold animal typed into a show's entry form counts as sold too. Last week's fix covered entries HARES had already matched to the animal. One typed into a show's online entry form a little differently from your herd — "AB 12" as "ab12" — never matched, so the seller could still see the buyer's other entries. Now it counts as the sold animal when it can only be that one: the same breed and ear number (spaces and capitals aside), entered by someone on the herd that sold it, at a show that starts after the sale day.
  • Entries like that from before the fix are sorted out too. From shows after the sale, their points, legs and show history no longer count in the seller's herd. If the animal was transferred through HARES, they count in the new owner's herd instead.

Entering shows

  • The entry form's last step counts meat pens right. At a show with meat pens, Check your entries before sending could say Send 2 entries for one animal, counting the form's empty meat-pen row. An untouched row isn't counted now, and a half-filled pen says why it won't be entered: no ear number, no class picked, or no show selected.

Running a show

  • Big results emails go through. Each ARBA leg slip attached to an exhibitor's Show Results email is about a quarter of the size it was, so an exhibitor with a lot of wins gets them all. Before, that email could be too big to send. The printed slip looks the same.
  • An email that didn't send says so. If HARES can't send an exhibitor's show report or check-in sheet, the badge by their name turns red — Didn't send — so you know to send it again. Before, it said "queued" and stayed that way.
  • Show catalogs are a PDF or a picture now. A Word file couldn't be opened in the HARES app, and a browser downloaded it to open in Word. A PDF or a picture opens right on the screen — in the app, on a phone or on a computer. Have a Word file? Save it as a PDF first (in Word: File → Save As → PDF). A Word file you've already uploaded stays, with a note on the show's Edit page asking for a PDF copy.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

October 06, 2026 Update

October 6 Update

A big one. Breeders get health records, points totals, and placings that say how many were in the class. Every show printout now comes as a PDF, so it prints the same from any browser. There are printable comment cards, an email list of everyone who's entered your shows, show cards that fill themselves in, Wool/Fur in just some shows, and a fix so a sold animal stops tying the seller to the buyer.

Your herd

  • Health records. Under the weight history on an animal's page, + Add a health record keeps what happened — sick, injury, treatment, vaccine, worming or vet visit — with the date, the medicine and dose, and notes. Only your herd sees them.
  • Meat withdrawal: type the days and HARES shows the date it clears. The animal's page says so until then.
  • Remind me on a date — a second dose, a recheck — and you get a notification that day, and it's in your weekly reminder email.
  • Sick — don't show marks an animal sick on its page and on My Herd, and notes it when you go to enter it in a show, until you press Mark well again.
  • Treated a group? Tick them on My Herd and press Add health record. Each animal gets its own record, and a cost is split across them.
  • Price Paid on an animal's record. Income & Expenses lists it under Animals bought and counts it as an expense, and a health record's cost goes under Health & vet. An animal transferred to you through HARES comes with the price it sold for.
  • Registration Variety: type it or pick it, and the Showroom Variety fills itself in. The list shows the colors you've used for that breed first, then ARBA's, with (Exhibition) colors marked. The first time you type a color HARES can't place, pick what it shows as, and HARES remembers it for your next animal of that breed and color. Type a color a letter or two off one it knows, and it asks Did you mean …?
  • Charlie and Sport tick boxes under Registration Variety, for the breeds that produce them. Ticking either makes the animal Not showable, and it prints after the color on the pedigree, like "Black · Charlie".
  • My Herd can open on a default breed. Set it in Settings → Display & units → My Herd opens on. The Breed filter still switches to any other.
  • The wide My Herd table keeps a sideways scroll bar at the bottom of the screen, and the name stays put while you scroll across.
  • Cage cards can show the last litter date — tick Last litter date in Settings → Cage cards.
  • Pedigrees: a long name shrinks onto one line in every box, and a Breed on each card tick box (Settings → Pedigree branding) takes the breed off the ancestor boxes if you'd rather not repeat it. It stays on unless you untick it.
  • ARBA Masters progress on Reports: Grand Champions in each breed, counted from the ARBA Grand Champion # on your animals, against Master Exhibitor (50), Grand Master Exhibitor (100) and Master Breeder (50 bred by you).

Litters

  • One Record ▾ button on a litter holds Kindled, Palpated and Missed (Babies born, Palpated and Didn't take for cavies).
  • Palpated: the date and Felt babies or Didn't feel any, shown on the litter. It needs a breeding date first.
  • # Peanuts on rabbit litters, counted apart from born and alive, with a Peanuts column on Reports.
  • # Fall offs on Mark as bred, not just Record Litters, shown beside the bred date.
  • A birth with no live kits doesn't email anyone waiting. The litter archives itself, and its page asks what to do with the reservations on it: plan a new breeding and take them along, or leave them open.
  • A kit saves without a color. Weigh it and fill in the rest from its Edit page, and pick the color once you can tell.

Points and wins

  • Placings say how many were in the class — "2nd of 7" — on an animal's Show Wins and its Show History PDF. The count is the animals that showed; scratches and wrong-class animals don't count.
  • Points totals. An animal's Show Wins card shows its Lifetime points, and Reports shows your herd's points for this year and lifetime: Sweepstakes, Fur/Wool sweepstakes, Quality Points and Herdsman. They come from the same numbers as the exhibitor show reports, plus points you type in, and count only breeds sanctioned at that show. Half points are kept. The first time, a big herd may say it's still adding up.
  • Herdsman points for the clubs that run a herdsman contest, each by its own rules.
  • A bought animal's own lifetime counts everything it's won. Your herd's totals count what it won after it came to you.
  • Adding a win from another show: Accomplishments → Add a leg, award or points. Pick what it was (1st to 10th, or an award) and Out of how many, and there are boxes for sweepstakes, quality and herdsman points. A Points only type is for points without a win.

Entering shows

  • Bring in animals you've entered before. At the top of a show's online entry form, tick animals from your earlier shows — any mix — and press Bring in. They're added to the form, and anything you've already typed stays. Check each one's class: it's what it was entered as last time.
  • Save for later when entering from your herd. It keeps the form just as it is — the animals ticked, their shows, classes and fur — with your login, so you can finish on another device. Come back to that show and it asks whether to continue or start over.
  • Each animal's weight shows beside it when you enter from your herd, to help pick its class.
  • Wool/Fur in just some shows. An animal entered in two or more shows can go in Wool/Fur in only some of them: Wool/Fur in which show(s)? Every show starts ticked. It's on the online entry form, entering from your herd, and the secretary's + Enroll Entry and Bulk Entry.
  • Forgot a fur entry? Edit the animal on My Entries and tick Also enter in its Fur class, while the show still takes new entries. It goes to the secretary like any change. Secretaries have the same box when editing an entry.
  • Show cards, filled in for you. Print cage cards on My Entries opens your show cards with the show's name and date, the exhibitor, and each animal's class and coop # already in. My Submissions offers the same right after you enter from your herd. From the entry list for a show that isn't on HARES, they come for just the animals you ticked.
  • The Exhibitor # box on the online entry form reads Auto: the show gives out exhibitor numbers, so two people can't pick the same one.
  • Staying signed in. Signing in to the online entry form by email link now lasts two weeks, with a Sign out at the top. A link opened where someone else is signed in asks which of you to continue as.
  • A Review My Entries page left open no longer dead-ends. It used to say the change was rejected and lose what you'd typed. Now the form comes back with everything you typed or, if you'd been signed out, asks you to sign in again.

Sold and transferred animals

  • A sold animal stops tying the seller to the buyer. A seller who had entered a sold animal under the buyer's name could see the buyer's other shows on My Entries, and Withdraw All and Edit my info reached the buyer's own animals and details. Now the seller sees the shows they entered it in, marked Sold and read-only, and can change only their own animals.
  • Shows after the sale go with the animal. A show that starts after the sale day belongs to the buyer's copy of the animal; a show already under way on the sale day stays the seller's to its end. Show-day alerts stop for the seller after the sale day. The buyer can change, withdraw or scratch any entry holding an animal sold to them.
  • Sales from before today are sorted out too. If an animal you sold was shown after the sale and those shows were counting in your herd — its points, legs and show history — they now count in the new owner's herd instead. Shows from before the sale stay yours. Show results and the secretary's reports don't change.

Printouts

  • Every show printout is a PDF now, so it prints the same from any browser — no more pages breaking differently in each one, or blank pages from Safari. Where a page shows the printout, it shows the PDF itself, so what you see is what prints. That's Check-in Sheets, Control Sheets and Blank Control Sheets, the Fees Sheet, Class Counts, Breed & Variety Breakdown, the Award and BIS Check Lists, Pre Show Entry Totals, the judge sheets, the QR posters, Writer Instructions, the Show-Day Alerts sheet, the Exhibitor List, Cost of Show, the judge fee sheet, Leg Check, and a breeder's Income & Expenses.
  • Check-in Sheets put the Total Due at the top of page 1, beside the exhibitor, so it's never lost on a second page.
  • Pre Show Entry Totals prints sideways, in groups of sub-shows, so judge names stay readable at a big show.
  • Leg Check prints the view you're on, with your search and filters.
  • Comment cards. Print ▾ → Comment Cards → a sub-show: a card for every animal, two per page in control-sheet order, filled in with the show, ear #, coop #, exhibitor, breed, variety and class, the judge, and No. in Class and No. Exhibitors. The judge's marks, remarks and stamp go on at the table. Print one breed or one animal (a reprint keeps its number), or blank cards. Rabbits and cavies each have their own card.
  • Breed Special Sheets. Print ▾ → Breed Special Sheets → a sub-show: a sheet for each breed entered, listing its colors and groups, with Ear #, Exhibitor and Color boxes for BOV/BOSV, BOG/BOSG, BOB/BOSB and Best Sr/Int/Jr — only the awards that breed gives. There's a Blank one too.
  • Print results (PDF) on each sub-show's Results tab.
  • Day-of-show entries: tick Accepting day-of-show entries on the show, and the control sheets end every class with blank lines to write them in (3 unless you change it).

Running a show

  • Exhibitor Email List. ✉ Email List on the Shows page gathers the email of everyone who's entered your shows, one line each, to copy into BCC or download as a PDF or a spreadsheet. Pick which shows, leave someone off, or add someone. HARES doesn't send anything.
  • "To review" on the Shows page: an amber number on each show with online entries waiting.
  • Fix an animal from the Results tab. The ✎ beside an ear # asks first, then opens the entry right there. If the animal is already placed, the form says which results a change would clear.
  • Entry fee: Regular, Late or Day of show on Bulk Entry and + Enroll Entry, starting from the show's dates. On Bulk Entry, one pick sets the batch and any animal can differ. A paper entry that came in on time but is typed in after the late date needs switching to Regular.
  • Bulk Entry shows the whole entry to check against the paper. After Enroll Entries, the exhibitor's contact details and every animal they have in the show are at the top. Click an ear # to fix one and come straight back.
  • Premiums by class size. Tick Pay places by the number in the class to pay places by how many showed — rows like "3 to 5 in class", each with its 1st to 5th amounts. The form warns about a class size no row covers.
  • The results activity log reads in ear numbers and exhibitors, and Hide closes it again.
  • Sanctions: each breed's card minimizes, and starts minimized once all its numbers are in.
  • Required Exhibitor Info. Name is always required now. A show's Require phone number and Require mailing address also apply on Bulk Entry, + Enroll Entry and Edit Exhibitor, so unticking the address no longer leaves those screens asking for one.
  • Any time works in the show's date boxes. Entries close could refuse a time you picked.
  • Check the whole sub-show flags a breed or color with nothing entered yet, instead of saying every breed checks out.

Show day

  • Superintendent: a Show: All picker narrows the judge tables, their totals, the add-breed boxes and the "still unassigned" line to one sub-show. A sub-show with every breed assigned is grayed out but can still be picked.
  • Writers see the judging order at the top of their page: each judge's breeds numbered in order, marked done, being judged or next. Tap one to open it. A breed the writer has submitted shows done, and the page is up to date whenever you come back to it.

Reports

  • Points Report by show, by breed, or both. On Club Show Reports, pick how each exhibitor's points are broken out.
  • Half points are kept. At clubs that pay half points, the Points Report was dropping the half from breed totals, so some exhibitors came up short. It now matches their own report, so some totals go up by a half. Whole numbers print as "101", not "101.0".
  • Best Display goes by exact points, so 57.5 beats 57. That used to be a tie decided by name, so a report made again can name a different winner than an earlier copy.
  • Exhibitor show reports: where a club pays only the highest of a group of awards, the lower one's Q.Pts box is blank, so the column adds up. RIS at a specialty or national reads "RIS (no leg)". And the footnote no longer says U placements don't count toward legs — they do.

Everywhere

  • Text size: Small, Normal or Large, for each person — in your account menu on the website, or More → Appearance in the app. Printouts keep their size.
  • Info is now Guides, in the menu and on the app's More screen. Old links still work.
  • A page left open too long says so — "This page was open too long", with a Reload button — instead of going blank, or a button doing nothing.
  • Menus stay on the screen on a phone instead of opening off the edge.
  • Search boxes keep up on big lists.
  • www.haresregistry.com goes to haresregistry.com. If you were signed in on the www address, sign in once more.

In the app

  • Signed out, the Android app opens on Log in instead of the website's homepage.
  • A long breed and color wrap on My Herd's cards instead of cutting the color off.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

September 29, 2026 Update

September 29 Update

Two big ones this week: the HARES app is on Android, and show-day alerts let exhibitors who enter online know when their breed is coming up. There's also a 2nd Reserve in Show, coop numbers that give themselves out, ARBA sanctions priced as a combo or separate, a way for exhibitors to scratch their own entries, papers and leg slips that go to the buyer, and a full refresh of the Info guides.

HARES for Android

  • The HARES app is on Google Play, free, for Android phones. Search HARES Registry, or use the Google Play button in the app guide on the Info page.
  • Sign in with the same account you use on the website and your herd is already there. Anything you change on your phone shows up on your computer, and the other way around.
  • What's in it: the four tabs you choose, notifications for transfers, breeding reminders and show-day alerts, QR codes on cage cards and pedigrees that open the animal in the app, and Barn Mode for a barn with no signal.
  • PDFs open in your phone's own PDF app, where you can print or share them.

Show day

  • Show-day alerts, in the HARES app. Exhibitors who entered a show online get a notification on their phone when their breed is assigned to a judge, when it's two breeds out, when it's up next, and when it's being judged. They work when the show's superintendent runs the day on the HARES Superintendent tab — assigning breeds to judges and marking them as they go. Nothing goes out until the superintendent presses Start the show, and End the show stops them.
  • A Show-Day Alerts sheet to post at the show, on the Print menu. Exhibitors who enter online also see a note about the alerts right after they send.
  • Tapping an alert opens the live judging schedule.
  • Each judge's card shows animals done and left, not just the total, and the superintendent's grid brings you back to the judge you were working on after each tap.
  • Judge cards show the requests and "nots" from the Pre Show Entry Totals sheet, and the add-a-breed picker names them too.

Results and Best in Show

  • 2nd Reserve in Show is on the Best in Show tab. It earns no leg and no points. It shows on the exhibitor's report, My Results, the animal's page, its pedigree and its Show History, and not on club reports.
  • Only BIS has to be filled in on the Best in Show tab — the winner, or Unawarded if the judge didn't give one. RIS, 2nd RIS and Best 4 / 6 Class can be left blank.
  • BIS may go to the Best 4 or Best 6 Class winner. RIS still can't.
  • A breed or group award grays out on the other colors' cards once it's used — BOB, BOS, BOG, BOSG and Best Sr / Int / Jr of Breed. The Results tab used to let a second color take one. To move an award, clear it first.
  • Writers can mark Best Sr / Int / Jr "Not awarded" when the judge doesn't give one, for breeds that pay no sweepstakes or Quality Points on that age group.
  • Best of Breed no longer waits for exhibition colors, which are usually judged after it. Submit & lock still waits for them, and says which color is left.
  • DQ reasons on the Results tab are easy to read, listed A to Z, in boxes that fit.
  • An animal's show-win chips count Best in Show and Reserve in Show, which they were missing, and so do its pedigree's wins line and its Show History totals. Best Sr / Int / Jr awards show their real names there too.
  • Tans list their colors Lilac, Blue, Chocolate, Black on the exhibitor report, Legs Earned, My Results, portal emails and Manage Shows, which still sorted them A to Z. The control sheets and results already had them in order.

Entries and the portal

  • A "Changes only after" date in the show's Entry window. After it, exhibitors can't add or withdraw entries — only change them or scratch. It has a Show Defaults row like the other dates.
  • An optional change fee beside it, charged for each animal changed after that date. It's its own line on the exhibitor's bill, so you can remove it on the Fees tab.
  • Exhibitors can scratch their own entries from My Entries, or from My Herd, right up to judging. A scratch stays on the roster and still bills, and you get an email for every one.
  • Exhibitors see an estimated total right after sending their entries, and on My Entries.
  • A search box on Portal Submissions finds a submission by name, email or ear number.
  • Entering from your herd, Auto class says what it picks — "Auto — Senior Buck", or what it still needs — and the review page shows the class too.
  • The portal's Exhibitor # box says "Leave blank", since the number is assigned automatically.
  • Renaming an exhibitor to a name you already have folds the two together instead of leaving a duplicate.
  • Specialties and nationals are always sanctioned, so their forms no longer offer the fun-show box.
  • The Portal tab fits a phone instead of sliding sideways.

Coop numbers and cage cards

  • Coop numbers give themselves out when entries close, in the order your control sheets print — color, then class, then ear number — starting at 1 in each breed. Number coops now on the Entries tab does it sooner.
  • One coop number per rabbit for the whole show, across every sub-show that uses coops.
  • Cage cards lead with the coop number, and secretaries can print 2, 4, 6 or 8 cards to a page, up and down or sideways, set in Show Defaults.
  • New sub-shows start their coop and meat-class boxes from Show Defaults — Add One, Add Multiple, Add Specialty and Add National alike.

Sanctions and reports

  • ARBA sanctions, combo or separate. The Sub-Shows tab asks, for each show letter, whether the club bought ARBA's Open/Youth Combination or bought them separately. It prices each at ARBA's rates, or what you actually paid, and carries it to Cost of Show. When a show's Open and Youth were bought separately, a youth may enter the same animal in both (ARBA Show Rule Section 51(A)).
  • Charges and credits on each breed club's bill — sales tax, a processing fee or a discount, added or taken off right on the club's card on the Sanctions tab.
  • Cost of Show prints the breed sanctions line along with everything else.

For breeders

  • Papers. Upload an animal's ARBA registration certificate (front and back) and Grand Champion certificate, with the details typed in. The numbers fill in its Reg # and GC #, the papers go along on a transfer, and they print at the end of its Show History.
  • Selling to someone who isn't on HARES, the buyer's pedigree email — from a sale or a reservation — now carries a second, private link to the animal's Show History with its leg slips and papers. It's only there when the animal has legs or papers, and it's never on the public pedigree page. The Sale screen says when it went.
  • Sale emails behave: an email you type for a buyer with none on file is kept, picking a saved buyer no longer erases it, your message survives a form error and sits inside its box, and a sale says so when the pedigree link wasn't emailed.
  • Cavies read as cavies in sale and transfer emails and the Show History — boar and sow, "a cavy you bought".
  • The Show History says "Sold by" for an animal you've sold, instead of "Current owner", and shows your rabbitry name and your name, each if you've filled them in.
  • Breeder Unlimited's second person can reach the shared herd, and a switch at the top of the breeder pages moves between their own herd and the shared one.
  • Click anywhere on a My Herd row to open the animal — the View column is gone — and rows are about a third shorter, so more fit on the screen. Litters rows open the litter the same way.
  • The prefix tidy-up has "Accept all", and it lists every run you've done, not just the last ten.
  • Pedigrees: a long name wraps onto two lines and the card makes room, and the values print pure black so a black-and-white printer keeps them sharp.

In the app

  • Help, Suggestion and the HARES Community group are on the More page.
  • Signing in, or claiming an account you entered a show with, signs the app in right away.
  • On iPhone, Download entry list PDF opens in the app, and the picked-for-a-show list only empties once your entries have really been sent.

Everywhere

  • Next and previous sub-show buttons sit at the top of every sub-show page, and a Back to top button shows once you scroll down.
  • Printing in dark mode comes out black on white, the same as everyone else's, and more screens read properly in dark mode.
  • The Monday reminder email arrives at 7am Eastern, as it says it does. It had been going out around 3am. The secretaries' daily youth-eligibility email moved to 7am too.
  • Signing up: a refused sign-up keeps the password you typed and says why plainly, and someone who already has a login is told so, with a Log in link. Signing up on the trial page starts the Secretary Trial. The writer sign-up keeps your password too.
  • A show the map can't find by its address still gets a pin.

The Info guides

  • Every guide was checked against the app, and about 36 passages that had fallen out of date were corrected — among them which awards earn legs, and what counts toward the 3-exhibitor, 5-animal minimum.
  • New sections cover fair premiums, the fair spreadsheet import, blank control sheets, Possible duplicates, Processed (meat), For sale, more than one rabbitry, the second person on Breeder Unlimited, and show-day alerts. There's a Show-Day Alerts card on the Info page too.
  • The app guide covers iPhone, iPad and Android, and says so wherever they differ.
  • The Secretary and Breeder guides fit a phone, and the Writer Instructions still print on one page.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

September 22, 2026 Update

September 22 Update

The big one this week is the rabbitry prefix, which has been rebuilt. It has its own setting now that fills the box in for you, it has stopped guessing at your prefix by reading your animals' names, and there's a screen that moves a prefix back out of the names it was typed into. Behind that is a long run of import fixes — the kind where one bad row used to take the whole file down — and a batch of entry problems that were costing people their entries without telling anyone.

Your rabbitry prefix

  • Your prefix lives in Settings now, in a box called Herd Prefix. Whatever you put there goes in front of your animals' names on pedigrees, and fills in the Prefix box for you on new animals and on kits from your litters. Leave it blank and nothing is filled in — HARES never guesses at it any more, which is what it used to do by reading your names and looking for something that might be a prefix.
  • It's the prefix, not your rabbitry name — often a short form of it. A rabbitry called Meadowbrook Rabbitry might use "Meadowbrook's".
  • If you typed your prefix into your animals' names, there's a screen that moves it out for you. Most herds arrived that way, so the box on its own wouldn't have been much use. It's the button beside the Herd Prefix box. It works a whole group at a time, nothing changes until you click, and it can be undone.
  • An animal with no name shows its prefix now. Kits usually haven't been named, and their pedigrees were printing a bare ear number with the prefix box empty — the "I ticked the prefix and it doesn't show" report. One piece of HARES now builds every printed name, so the prefix can't appear twice either, which is what cage cards were doing.
  • The Prefix column in your herd is one switch, and it clears out of the Sire cell the moment you untick it rather than lingering. The dam and sire pickers show it again too.
  • An import tells a Prefix column from a Breeder column. A prefix is a prefix and a breeder is a person, and they were being treated as the same thing.
  • Entering a show, "Enter as" fills in from your default rabbitry instead of coming up blank, and follows the rabbitry the animals you picked actually came from. Your whole herd selection reaches the entry form now, not just one rabbitry's worth of it.

Bringing a herd in

  • One mistyped weight no longer kills a 20,000-animal import. A single impossible number used to stop the whole thing. The import now carries on and names the animals whose weight it couldn't store, so you know exactly which ones to go and look at.
  • An interrupted import keeps the work it already did rather than starting over, and the results page stops piling up repeats of itself.
  • Every skipped litter is named, and an import that failed partway tells you what it did manage to bring in — instead of leaving you to work out what's there.
  • An empty grand champion number no longer steals the next rabbit's rabbitry name. A blank field was pulling the following animal's value into its place, which quietly moved data onto the wrong rabbit.
  • An ancestor already in your herd gets the parents a new pedigree supplies. Import a pedigree that goes back further than one you imported before, and the animals you already have are filled in from it rather than left as they were.
  • A pedigree saved as .HTM brings in its whole tree — all fifteen animals on it, instead of one wrong rabbit.
  • A breed HARES doesn't recognize is kept exactly as you wrote it, and you're only asked about it once for the whole herd rather than for every animal carrying it.
  • An import that adds nothing because you're at your plan's limit says so. It used to finish looking like it had worked.

Entries

  • Two cavies can share a tattoo. ARBA Section 12 says an animal can only be entered in one class per show, and HARES was reading that as one tattoo per show — so a second cavy wearing the same ear number was refused and the whole portal submission was lost. It now compares breed, color and sex as well, which is what actually tells two animals apart.
  • The portal makes you pick a show before it takes an entry. An animal with no show ticked used to be saved anyway and then appear nowhere — not on your entry list, not on the secretary's roster, not on a check-in sheet — while still being enough to refuse you as a duplicate every time you tried again. There was no way out of that on your own. Now it won't take the entry until a show is ticked, and it says which animal is missing one.
  • A tattoo is found whatever capitals you type it in. Adding an animal already entered as "BK12" to a second show by typing "bk12" came back "already entered by this exhibitor" — and typing it again did the same thing forever. It reads the two as the same animal now. The same fix went into the secretary's own entry screens, where it was refusing secretaries too.
  • Going back to change a meat entry no longer loses its class. The edit screen didn't know the meat categories at all, so a Single Fryer you'd already entered wasn't among the choices when you reopened it.
  • A fur entry belongs to one animal. It was matched on the tattoo alone, so it could attach itself to a different animal of another breed wearing the same one.
  • Your own name in different capitals no longer stops you entering. Entering from your herd came back "Name has already been taken" when the name on file was stored in different capitals from the ones you typed — while entries you made for someone else went straight through.
  • Building an entry list for a show that isn't on HARES, everything starts ticked. Every animal, and every show each one could go in, arrives selected — with Tick all and Untick all for both. If you only want a few on the list, untick the lot and tick those back rather than working down the whole thing.
  • Grammarly and password managers keep out of the tattoo boxes, where they were offering to fill in and correct things that aren't words.

For secretaries

  • Exhibition breeds and colors are marked "(Exhibition)" everywhere you see them — reviewing a portal submission, check-in on screen and in the PDF, control sheets, the exhibitors list, sub-show entries and the writer's screen. The exhibitor sees it on their own screens and in their emails too, so nobody finds out on show day. Chocolate Agouti and Steel, posted by ARBA on August 31, are in — so all 26 working standards are now carried.
  • An Award Check List you can tick off as you hand each award over.
  • Sanctions take one tick at the top instead of opening every breed, and the breeds still missing a sanction come to the top of the list where you can see them.
  • You can type a message that gets added to the exhibitor report email.
  • Meat pens and pre-juniors stop counting as animals on the exhibitor report. A meat pen is one entry, not three, and neither counts toward anything — the totals were reading high.
  • Reports stopped glitching out in the app. The leg lookups were running four times per page and now run once, which took the worst of it off.
  • The late fee box is back on bulk entry, and on the one-at-a-time enroll form too, and it appears when the deadline is set on the show rather than the sub-show. Typing a paper entry in after the deadline still doesn't make it late on its own — that stays your call.
  • The fees printout stops splitting a person across a page break.
  • An empty "Pending Review" row no longer appears in your queue. Editing an entry that had no show attached created a review item with nothing in it and emailed you about it.

Transfers

  • A transferred rabbit arrives with its whole pedigree. It was landing on the buyer's side with a blank one, and a weight or a field the transfer didn't know to copy went missing without a word. The rule now is that the buyer's certificate matches the seller's paper.
  • Accepting a transfer is much quicker — it was re-running the leg rules once for every ancestor.

On a phone

  • Your herd and litter lists read as cards on a phone instead of a table squeezed sideways, and the cards in the app follow the columns you picked.
  • Registration and grand champion numbers show on the herd cards when you tick them. Ticking the box in Settings did nothing at all before.
  • The Show Names and Memberships boxes stack instead of squashing, and the Writer box stays inside the class bar.
  • Barn Mode stopped telling you it was offline while it also said it was online.

When a save doesn't go through

  • The Results tab tells you when a save doesn't go through. It saves as you go, and a save that failed passed without a word — so the screen looked right while the result hadn't been recorded.
  • In dark mode the failed-save mark didn't exist, and the bar it sat in was swallowing taps.
  • An error on one box stopped as soon as a different box saved, so the thing that hadn't saved stopped saying so.
  • Three search boxes never said "no matches" — they just went empty, which reads like a search that didn't run.

Smaller things

  • Pedigrees put the values a registrar needs in bold and leave the field names light, so the things being checked are the things that stand out. Date of birth and leg count are bold now too.
  • Clicking Transfers lands on Transfers, and the breeder tabs stop moving around as you change pages.
  • One rare breed spelled two ways stopped showing up twice in your herd filter.
  • The W flip goes both ways now, and says so on screen.
  • Not Showable is offered when you add a dam or sire to a pedigree. It sits at the bottom of every breed's color list, the same as everywhere else you pick a color.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

September 15, 2026 Update

September 15 Update

Two big ones this week: premium money, and bringing a whole herd in from your own spreadsheet. There's also a run of fixes to what HARES records about your animals — several of them things it was quietly getting wrong, and worth a look if they touched your shows.

Premiums

  • A show can pay premiums, and HARES works out who is owed what. Say the show pays them, set what each placing is worth and what each award is worth, and the exhibitor list grows a premiums section — every person's premiums itemised, each line showing how many they earned and what it comes to. It's the sheet you write checks from, and it already carries their names and addresses.
  • Youth can have their own scale. If youth premiums differ from open, set both; if they don't, set one and leave it.
  • Every award HARES tracks is listed, so it can total them. For anything it doesn't track, type the award and what it pays — it prints at the foot of the list as a reminder of what those are worth. The bottom line gives you the total HARES calculated, then a blank for the write-in awards and a blank for the total paid, because those two are yours to fill in.

Bringing a herd in from a spreadsheet

  • A whole rabbitry can come in from your own Excel workbook, in one upload. If you keep a sheet per rabbit drawn as the usual fanned three-generation pedigree, HARES reads them — name, ear number, color, weight, date of birth, registration and grand champion numbers, legs. All three generations come in, so ancestors arrive too rather than just sire and dam, and a sheet named for a pairing is recorded as that breeding rather than only as a rabbit. Upload the workbook itself rather than saving it out as CSV.
  • An ancestor drawn on twenty pedigrees becomes one rabbit, not twenty.
  • It works out how you write weights before it stores any of them. On a hand-made pedigree "7.14 lbs" nearly always means 7 lb 14 oz, but "7.5 lbs" from the same sheet could be that or seven and a half pounds, and nothing in the cell says which. So it reads every weight in the file together and decides once, rather than guessing one at a time — and if a file genuinely mixes the two, it says so and asks you to check them afterwards.
  • Every sheet in the workbook is accounted for. Blank templates, growth charts and health pages are skipped, but you're told they were, so nothing disappears without a word — and a real pedigree that failed to read says so instead of going quiet.

Classes

  • A single fryer can be entered in a fur class. A fryer has no variety of its own recorded, so the form asks you outright whether it's white or colored rather than working it out and getting it wrong.
  • Pre-Junior is now Pre-Junior Buck and Pre-Junior Doe. Anything already recorded as plain Pre-Junior stays exactly as it is.

What HARES records about an animal

  • A pedigree no longer refuses to import because two of your animals share a tattoo. One herd can hold a buck and a doe wearing the same one, and HARES took whichever it happened to find first — so a doe could land in the sire slot and the whole import was turned away with "Sire must be a buck", with no way for you to say which one you meant. Each parent and grandparent position knows the sex it has to be, so it now picks the animal that fits and starts a new one if none of them does.
  • Two of your animals can share a tattoo, and HARES now works out which one an entry belongs to. Breeders reuse ear numbers, and it was treating one as if it named a single animal. Where two matched, it refused to guess — so one animal's wins and legs sat on an entry attached to nothing while everything else flowed through. It now settles it on the variety the animal was shown in, which is the thing that actually tells them apart. Two animals of the same variety wearing the same tattoo are genuinely ambiguous, and those still wait for you rather than being guessed at.
  • A buck can no longer end up wearing a doe's wins. The same shared-tattoo problem in the other direction: an entry could attach to an animal of the opposite sex, so one buck's profile was showing a doe's legs, her Best of Variety, her Best of Group and three Senior Doe placings. Sex now rules an animal out whatever the tattoo says.
  • A cavy entered from a breeder's herd lands in a cavy class. It was being put in a rabbit class instead — a senior sow came through as a Senior Doe — and it read that way everywhere afterwards: control sheets, the writer's screen, the leg forecast and both reports. Worth checking if you've taken cavy entries that way.

Show day and reports

  • An award you've assigned no longer disappears when a group is reopened.
  • The opposite-sex picker follows the winner as you choose it, rather than offering animals that can't be the answer.
  • A fun show or playday stays off the ARBA report and can't hold it up. A sub-show ticked non-sanctioned earns no legs and produces no ARBA page, so it has no business blocking the sanctioned shows that do — it was stopping the report over an entry fee it never needed.
  • When the ARBA report isn't ready, it names the sub-show holding it up and where to fix it.
  • Leg Check lists the classes sitting one animal short. It used to show only the classes that had already earned a leg, which said nothing about the one sitting a head under the line. Every class with an animal in it now states its own shortfall, on your side and on the public portal page. Where an award needs both sexes and only one is entered, it says which sex is missing instead of a bare "short".
  • Best Display appears on the winner's own exhibitor report, not only on the club report — so whoever won hears it from their own sheet instead of someone else's.

Settings and setup

  • A reminder when it's time to breed a planned pairing. It arrives in the notification bell, on your phone and in the weekly digest, with its own on/off switch. Overdue pairings are flagged too, and the reminder stops after a month rather than nagging on forever — the planned litter stays where it is either way.
  • The single entry fee can have a default. That's the one price used on specialty and national sub-shows, and on every sub-show of a show you've set to one price for entries. It was the only fee on the sub-show form you had to retype for every show.
  • The youth eligibility heads-up quotes the rule it's about — ARBA Section 30, on whose animal an entry has to be — so you can judge what you're looking at without going to find it.

Smaller things

  • The Excel workbook and Evans whole-herd imports now show up in the app's import menu. The phone's menu is a separate list from the website's, and both importers shipped after it was written — so they worked perfectly and were invisible on a phone. Evans had been missing there since it shipped.
  • A CSV column headed "Wt" is recognized now, and so is a legs column. Neither was, so unless you pointed them at the right field yourself on the review screen they came in blank — no error, just an empty field.
  • Links shared to Facebook or Messenger now show the HARES card, with the right image and a real description.
  • Secretary links tapped on a phone open in the browser. The app is the breeder side, so a secretary page had nowhere to go in it.
  • The parent search on the litter screens says what it does. It shows your active animals, and typing also finds ancestors — which is what it always did, without saying so.
  • Light, Auto and Dark moved into the profile menu so the tabs stay on one line.
  • The box that asks you to type DELETE now says so. Deleting a litter or an animal asks you to type the word first — but nothing on screen said that, and typing anything else left the button doing nothing at all. It now tells you what to type, says so when it doesn't match, accepts the word in any capitalization, and takes the Enter key.
  • The delete-account page explains how to delete some of your data without closing the account, and the support address on it is visible again.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

September 08, 2026 Update

September 8 Update

The HARES app is on the App Store

  • HARES Registry is live for iPhone and iPad, free. It has been in testing for weeks and went public on September 3rd. Search the App Store for HARES Registry, or open haresregistry.com on your phone and the link is on the site.
  • Barn Mode is the reason to have it. Barns eat cell service, and so do show halls and fairgrounds. In the app you can weigh a kit, record a litter, sell a rabbit and take photos with no bars at all, and every bit of it sends itself the moment you're back in service.
  • Pages you've already opened stay readable with no signal, photos and all, and they still look like HARES rather than a browser error.
  • It tells you the truth about what it can and can't do. A page you haven't opened says so plainly instead of failing; anything that genuinely needs signal is marked; and the hub says in plain English what's still waiting to send.
  • Anything waiting sends itself when signal comes back — you don't have to remember to go back and do it.
  • Your settings come with you — weight units, which rabbitry you're filing under, and dark mode all match the website.
  • The app can send you notifications, and you choose which under your notification settings.
  • There are guides for both under Info & Guides — one for the app, one for Barn Mode — and both print.

Find a show

  • There's a public directory of shows at last. Search it, filter by state or species, and see which shows take entries through HARES without going through My Herd first.
  • There's a map. Shows near you, colour-coded so the ones you can enter through HARES stand out, with search and a species filter. Shows at the same town no longer hide behind each other.
  • Anyone can add a show to the map — it only needs a free breeder account, and the show name, city, state and date. Each one is checked by hand before it appears, and whoever added it hears back either way.
  • In the list — not the map — shows stay visible after their entry deadline, marked closed, instead of vanishing the moment entries shut. There's a past-shows window too. The map itself only carries what's still to come.
  • Secretaries can keep a show off the map — it's a tick box when you set the show up.

Entering a show that isn't on HARES

  • You can print an entry list to email. Pick your animals from your herd as you normally would, then choose "Show not on HARES?" at the top of the show list. Type the show's name, its date, and what it calls its shows — Open A, Youth B, a specialty, whatever they run — and tick which ones each animal goes in.
  • HARES works out every class for you. The sheet carries your name, address, phone and email, then each animal's ear number, breed, variety, class and shows, on one page.

Your herd

  • A colour that can't be shown is no longer a dead end. Pick "Not showable" at the bottom of the Showroom Variety list and the animal saves like any other. It stays in your herd and shows up everywhere as normal, and it just can't be entered in a show. The words "Not showable" never appear on a pedigree — the certificate prints the registration variety instead, so put the colour's real name there.
  • You can rename an animal after you've sold it, for when the new owner gives it a different name. Everything else about the record stays locked.
  • Weigh an animal without marking it processed. There's a Save weights button on both processing forms, so you can weigh ten in a row and come back to process them, instead of leaving a browser tab open. A bulk processing no longer wipes a weight you saved beforehand.
  • Cull or mark deceased a whole checked set at once, with one date and reason. Animals already locked are skipped.
  • Himi joins the gene carriers.
  • Registration # and GC # can go on the herd list and on cage cards — tick boxes in the column picker and under Settings, off by default.
  • Replacing an animal's headline photo keeps the old one in the gallery instead of destroying it, so you can change your mind. And a rabbit's photos can be deleted now — before this they could only be added to.
  • Selling a grow-out sends you back to the herd, not to the litter it was born in.
  • There's a Save button at the top of the rabbit form as well as the bottom.
  • Cull and death reasons suggest what you actually use, and the reports say plainly what you're losing animals to.

Grand Champion progress

  • A new report on the Reports tab shows every animal within reach of Grand Champion, what it still needs, and what's already banked.
  • The badge can be switched off if you don't want it, and it now updates the moment you change an animal rather than waiting out a cache.
  • The herd list and the animal's own page agree about whether something still needs registering with ARBA.

Pedigrees

  • They're markedly easier to read. The type now scales to the box it sits in — names and details on the first three generations are close to twice the size they were. Great-grandparents give up their leg detail to earn the same room.
  • The photo is a tick box, and it no longer squeezes the family tree to make space for itself. Photos are also a full inch and no longer stretched out of shape.
  • The print button is gone from both pedigree pages — use the PDF, which is the one that lays out correctly.

Memberships

  • You can hold more than one ARBA membership. There was only ever one box, which is no use to a household keeping more than one person's. Both ARBA and breed-club memberships are now a list, each with a name on it, and the renewal reminder in your weekly digest names whose is due.

For show secretaries

  • A fair's entry spreadsheet can be brought straight in. Upload the file, see exactly what HARES read out of it and what it couldn't, match their groupings to your sub-shows, then bring the entries in — and take them back out again if it isn't right. Nothing is written until you say so. Adults sitting in a youth show get flagged, and you can hand the fair back their own file with your numbers in it.
  • Entry pricing asks once. Set a show up and it asks how you price entries — one price, or discounts by number of entries or number of shows — instead of demanding nine numbers before you can save.
  • Portal links you can read down the phone. A show now carries a short code alongside its link. Every old link still works.
  • Blank control sheets to fill in by hand — under Print on the show page. Choose how many sheets and how many lines. For a class that turns up on the day, a spare when one gets ruined, or a show you're not running through HARES.
  • Choose how exhibitors are listed — by last name or by exhibitor number — under Show Defaults. It applies to the Exhibitors tab, exhibitor reports, check-in sheets, the fees report, the exhibitor list and a sub-show's Entries tab, which previously disagreed with each other. Note: the Entries tab now starts alphabetical; set this to "Exhibitor number" if you preferred it the old way.
  • A control sheet's second page says which colour it belongs to, so a sheet that falls out of the folder can find its way home. Column headings repeat too when a big class runs over.
  • Cavy sub-shows stop offering meat classes.
  • The portal says when it's waiting for a sub-show to be added rather than sitting there looking broken.

Notifications and your account

  • You can delete a notification, and it asks first.
  • Deleting anything says what it costs before you do it, and where it can't be undone it asks you to type the word.
  • There's a public page explaining how to close your account and exactly what's deleted and what's kept.

Smaller things

  • The duplicate finder is much better at its job. It lists the animals it says it's listing, finds the real pair hidden inside a crowd of animals sharing one value, and lets you say "these aren't duplicates" and be done. A shared tattoo is no longer assumed to be a bad import.
  • A rabbit's placings read in the order the shows run, not the order the results happened to be entered.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

September 01, 2026 Update

September 1 Update

Exhibition breeds and colours

  • Six breeds and twenty-one colours are now real options in the dropdowns, each marked (Exhibition). They show and are judged like anything else, but they earn no legs and win nothing — an amber note says so on the screen as soon as one is picked.
  • Exhibition colours print last on the class sheets. You pick one in its ordinary alphabetical place, but it comes off the printer at the end, because that's when it's judged.
  • Your herd still takes any breed you type. It's your record of your own animals, and plenty of real ones aren't ARBA breeds. What's new is that an animal whose breed ARBA doesn't recognize can't be entered into a show — the picker still lists it, but the box won't tick and it says why.
  • The free-text colour box has come off the portal, herd records, herd submissions and pedigree ancestors. Anything you have already saved is untouched: a colour that isn't on its breed's list now appears as its own option, marked "not a recognized colour", still selected. Opening that rabbit and saving it will not change it.
  • Show secretaries keep their write-in on their own screens, so a fun show can still run fun colours.

Entering for your children, or anyone else

  • The review screen names the person you entered for, not the person signed in. If you entered yourself first and then used "Enter for someone else", the review page showed your own name over your child's entries.
  • Correcting a name corrects the right person. Opening a child's entries and fixing a spelling used to rename the account holder instead, and leave the child's name as it was.
  • "Withdraw All" withdraws only the person whose card you clicked. It previously removed every exhibitor on the login — a parent tidying up one child's entries could take the whole family's out of the show. It is permanent, so the confirmation now names whose entries are going.
  • "Add more (same person)" and "Edit my info" open the right exhibitor now, wherever you reach them from.
  • Herd entries can be corrected as long as portal entries can. Submitting from My Herd used to mean withdrawing and resubmitting to fix an approved entry, while the same fix through the portal was allowed. Both now follow one rule: is the show still taking entries.

Jersey Wooly joins the 3½ Pound and Under Specialty

  • Effective today, per ARBA. Sweepstakes and specialty awards pick it up automatically — nothing for you to change.

Double-sided printing on check-in sheets

  • Check-in sheets can print double-sided, and every exhibitor still starts on a front side, so nobody's sheet begins on the back of somebody else's.
  • Control sheets stay single-sided by design, and judge sheets and writer QR codes never print double-sided — each of those is its own page.
  • The fee total no longer strands itself alone on a final page.

Pedigrees

  • Colour the boxes by sex, or in your rabbitry colour, whichever you prefer.
  • The BUCK / DOE badge stays readable in rabbitry-colour mode.
  • Vienna joins the gene-carrier checkboxes.

Your account and your animals

  • An account holding shows or a herd can no longer be hard-deleted. The Delete button now refuses, in plain English, and names where to write if you genuinely want the account closed.
  • Transfers allow only one live offer per rabbit at a time, and several related gaps are closed. Deleting a transfer no longer takes down your whole notification bell.
  • The herd editor stops offering to edit or delete animals it can't actually show you, and a sold or culled animal no longer slips past the guard.
  • A rabbit marked sold with no sale recorded is no longer locked forever. The 30-day window works as intended, and Cancel sale is a real button in the banner.

Imports

  • BEW and REW shorthand and hyphenated colours now derive to the right variety instead of landing blank.
  • Mini Rex gains its missing Blue Eyed White.

For show secretaries

  • Sanctions fill the shared fields down from the first row instead of making you retype them.
  • The superintendent share link no longer clips at the edge of the box, and there's a Copy button.

Smaller things

  • Print screens no longer leak stray comment text onto the page.
  • Dark mode fixes three places where text vanished against its background.
  • Date entry tolerates a day of clock difference between your phone and your account, instead of refusing a date that's correct where you are.
  • Emails say where a correction should go, since replies don't always reach us.
  • "How did you hear about us?" is a dropdown rather than a free-text box.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

August 25, 2026 Update

August 25 Update

Income & Expenses — your money in one place

  • A new Income & Expenses statement lives under Reports. Pick a tax year and it totals what your rabbits earned and what they cost, then prints or downloads as a PDF you can keep or hand to an accountant.
  • Sales and reservation deposits come in automatically from the tabs you already use — nothing to re-type.
  • Show entry fees are typed in, because they're billed by the show secretary and HARES never sees them. Date, show name, amount and how many animals you took — every field optional. There's a free-write section underneath for everything else: feed, supplies, stud fees, travel, an animal you bought.
  • It's cash-basis, and it says so on the page and in the PDF. A sale with no price recorded, or a deposit you haven't marked received, is left out of the totals and told to you rather than quietly dropped.

Find duplicate animals

  • My Herd → Find duplicates looks for animals that appear to be the same rabbit entered more than once — the usual result of importing twice, or typing one in that was already there.
  • Copies are shown together as a group, however many there are, with everything about them side by side. Keep whichever copy you choose and the others fold into it, bringing their litters, show entries, sales, weights, legs and photos with them. Anything the copy you keep was missing — a birth date, a weight, a photo — is filled in from the others; anything you'd already recorded is left alone.
  • Two animals are only suggested when nothing about them disagrees — sex, breed, colour, birth date — and something positively matches. Breeders reuse tattoos, so a shared ear number is treated as a question, never an answer.
  • If they're genuinely different animals, say so and they won't be suggested again. If most of a group matches but one doesn't, you can set that one aside and merge the rest.
  • Merging deletes the copies you don't keep, and can't be undone, so you get a confirmation screen listing exactly what will move before anything happens.

Selling animals

  • Mark a rabbit for sale with an asking price. It shows on the animal's page, and cage cards gain a FOR SALE band with the price.
  • My Herd has a For Sale filter, you can list several animals at once, and print sale cards for exactly the animals in that filter.

Genetics on the pedigree

  • Record what an animal carries — fuzzy, satin, ruby-eyed white, dilute — plus anything else you track, in your own words.
  • Carriers print on the pedigree for every animal on the card, and can be switched off if you'd rather they didn't.
  • The pedigree's Legs setting is now two: show the leg count, show the leg details, or both.

More than one rabbitry on one account

  • If you run more than one rabbitry, you can now add extra ones to your account — each with its own name, logo and letterhead. File animals under whichever rabbitry owns them, filter the herd by rabbitry, and move animals between them.
  • Each rabbitry enters shows as its own exhibitor, so entries, cage cards and pedigrees carry the right name.
  • It's an optional add-on at $50 a year per extra rabbitry, added to the subscription you already have. One rabbitry stays included, as always. Find it in Settings, in the rabbitry block at the top.

Sending entries — see them first

  • Both entry paths now show you the full list before anything is sent. On the public entry form and on My Herd, "Submit" became Review My Entries: every animal, its classes, and which shows it's entered in, with anything missing a show flagged. Nothing is sent until you confirm.
  • The count is the billed count — ticking wool or fur creates a second, separately-charged entry, and the review now says so instead of counting the animal once.
  • Exhibitors entering through the portal fixed something and got an email but stayed approved — an edited animal now goes back for review, every time, and only the animal that changed.
  • The portal entry link can be downloaded as a QR code for a show catalog, a flyer or a Facebook post.

For show secretaries

  • Meat pen wins now reach all three rabbits. A pen is one entry covering three animals, and the win was only landing on the first ear number typed — the other two showed no history of the show at all. Existing pens have been corrected, so animals may gain show wins they should always have had.
  • The exhibitor list downloads as a PDF, matching the printable page column for column.
  • Check-in sheets and exhibitor reports can come out as separate pages per show, whether you print them or email them — so a weekend's paperwork can be split into a stack per club instead of one run-on sheet. Every page after the first carries the show, exhibitor number and name, so a page on its own is never anonymous. Switch it on per show, or set it once in Show Defaults.
  • Californian and Mini Californian file as one club, and Mini Cal now appears in the Commercial Breed Specialty. Breeds that share a club can be sanctioned inside specialties again, and older sanctions recorded under a member's name save properly instead of failing silently.
  • Show Wins puts each show's awards on their own row.

Imported colours corrected

  • Some imported animals will show a different variety than they did yesterday, and it's the right one. Two import faults were fixed and every affected animal repaired automatically.
  • Evans writes patterned colours front-first — "Otter - Black" — and HARES was reading the tail, so a herd of black otters came in as plain Black. The pattern now wins from either end.
  • Angoras show in just two varieties, White and Coloured, so every real colour had nothing to match and imported blank. They now land in Coloured, with ruby- and blue-eyed whites correctly in White.
  • Your registered colour is untouched throughout — this only affects the showroom variety HARES derived for you.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

August 18, 2026 Update

August 18 Update

Meat classes

  • Meat results now reach the exhibitor. A placed meat pen, fryer, roaster or stewer used to sit on "Not yet judged" forever — on My Entries and on the phone portal — no matter how long ago the show ran. It now shows its placement like any other entry.
  • Meat wins are labelled as meat. A Meat Pen 1st looked exactly like a Senior Buck 1st: same breed name, same "1st". Meat rows now carry a Meat class tag on your results and on the animal's Show Wins, so a meat win is never mistaken for a breed-class win.
  • Meat classes list in ear number order on the writer screen, the control sheets and the results.

Varieties and points

  • Netherland Dwarf torts are one variety. Black, blue, chocolate and lilac tort now share a single Tortoise Shell showroom variety — they're judged together on the table, the same way otters have always been pooled. Your animal's actual registered colour still goes in Registration Variety, which is free text and unchanged. Shows already judged keep their original classes exactly as they were.
  • Standard Chinchilla and Lilac now score sweepstakes points. They were the only two breeds in HARES with no point schedule at all, so every placement showed a dash. Both now use 6 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 times the number in the class — the schedule 40 of the 45 breed clubs already use. If either club publishes its own, we'll put it in.
  • Leg counts follow ARBA's one-per-show rule. A rabbit earns one leg per show, on its highest win — so an animal that took Best of Variety and then Best of Breed at the same show holds one leg, not two. Some counts will read lower than they did before. Your leg slips are unchanged and still show the full win path, and Grand Champion eligibility is not affected — it already counted this way.

For show secretaries

  • Re-ordering placements just works. You can shuffle a class freely now — HARES no longer stops you mid-swap because two animals briefly hold the same place. It checks when you save instead.
  • If a save is rejected, the screen puts back what's actually stored rather than leaving your rejected edit sitting there looking saved.
  • A sub-show can have its own host club, and inherits the main show's when you leave it blank — for the weekends where one show's sub-shows are sanctioned to different clubs.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

August 11, 2026 Update

August 11 Update

Imports you can take back

  • Every import can now be undone. Open the import from your Imports page and click Undo this import — it removes exactly the animals that import added and leaves the rest of your herd alone. Works for a spreadsheet, an Everbreed link, a pedigree photo, or a whole Evans herd.
  • Or start completely over. "Delete all my rabbits and start over" clears your whole herd and its litters so you can import again from a clean slate. It asks you to type a confirmation first, and it offers you a spreadsheet of your herd to keep before anything goes. Your shows, entries, and account aren't touched.
  • This is the way out when an import came in wrong. Deleting animals one at a time never worked for that — HARES won't delete a rabbit that's somebody's sire or dam, and after an import nearly every animal is.
  • One catch worth knowing: imports you did before this update can't be undone, because HARES wasn't yet recording which animals each one brought in. Starting over still works for those.
  • Bringing a whole Evans herd across, you now choose what counts as your current herd — either follow your Evans storage areas, or bring the file in as pedigree-only lineage and promote your real herd yourself. The second is the better choice for a big file with decades of animals in it.

Faster where it was slowest

  • My Herd loads much faster. The 🏆 grandable badges no longer hold up the list — your animals appear first and the badges fill in behind them.
  • A shown animal's page that used to take half a minute now takes about two seconds.

For show secretaries

  • Control sheets say which show they're for. The show name only appeared on the QR cover sheet, so a loose stack was indistinguishable from another show's. Every sheet now carries the show name and date.
  • Leg Check gains a sub-show picker, and there's a printable exhibitor list.
  • The ARBA and club report badges show what actually happened to the email — delivered, bounced, still sending — instead of just "Sent".
  • The portal review queue groups entries by exhibitor, and the bulk buttons act on exactly what you're looking at. It also stops choking on entries from an exhibitor who has since deleted their account.
  • Several report crashes fixed, including exhibitor reports on group-only breeds and results that include meat classes.
  • Award pickers can no longer be scrambled by a browser's auto-translate, and the Leg Forecast button has moved up the portal page where people will actually see it.

For exhibitors

  • You can fix your own name and address from the portal. There's now an "Edit my info & entries" link — previously the only way in was to tick animals on My Entries and hit bulk edit, which nobody found.
  • Meat pens show all three ear numbers on your entry pages.

Smaller things

  • Replies to HARES emails now reach a person. Check-in sheets, show reports and portal emails reply to the show secretary; the notices a secretary sends reply to the exhibitor. They used to go to the HARES help inbox, where nobody was expecting them.
  • Settings now says Rabbitry / Caviary info — an account can hold both species.
  • Previous / Next buttons on a litter, so you can walk through them without going back to the list.
  • A phone that signed in twice used to count as two of your three devices. It doesn't any more.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

August 04, 2026 Update

August 4 Update

New: track the meat you raise

  • When you take a rabbit for meat, mark it Processed — it sits alongside Cull and Died, and it records a live weight and a dressed weight. HARES works out the dress-out percentage for you.
  • Do a whole litter at once from the litter page, or one animal at a time — including a grow-out you decide not to keep, straight from My Herd.
  • Those weights add up where you'd want them: each doe's page shows how much meat she has produced, the litter shows its own total, and Reports gets a herd-wide figure you can flip between this month, this year, and all time — plus your top-producing does.
  • Got a number wrong? Processing is correctable — fix the weight, or put the animal back if you ticked the wrong one.
  • Not a meat breeder? Turn it off under Settings ("I raise meat rabbits") and the word disappears everywhere.

You can now be signed in on three devices

  • A paid account used to allow one browser at a time, so your own phone and laptop signed each other out. Now each person gets three devices — phone, tablet, computer. Sign in on a fourth and it simply works — the device you haven't used in the longest is signed out to make room.
  • Breeder Unlimited can invite one other person from the account page. They sign in with their own email and password and get their own three devices, so a couple sharing a herd never signs each other out.

For show secretaries

  • A day-of-show entry fee. Alongside your regular and late fees, you can now set a higher rate for entries taken at the door, with its own start time. Set it once on the show; a sub-show on a different clock can override it. The day-of rate replaces the late fee — nobody pays both.
  • The Fee button on your entries list now cycles Regular → Late → Day-of, so you can fix any entry that landed in the wrong tier. (It also now appears on shows that set their late date at show level, where it had been hidden.)
  • The Superintendent tab is a lot calmer. Shows collapse to one line with their status, there's a filter for just the show you're working, and adding a breed or marking one done brings you back to that show's card instead of the top of the page.
  • Pre Show Judge Totals — a new printout showing how many animals sit at each judge's table before anything is judged, plus a running count on each judge card as you assign breeds.
  • When an exhibitor edits entries they already submitted, the email you get now says "Updated entries" and flags which animals changed, instead of looking like a brand-new submission.

Entering shows

  • Entering from My Herd now warns you if a show is charging its late or day-of-show rate — a small tag in the show list and a line on the entry form. The public entry link has always done this; now both do.
  • Selling a rabbit through HARES? You can resend a transfer offer, and correct the email address if it was mistyped — the offer moves with it instead of needing to be cancelled and redone.

Faster, and easier to read

  • My Herd loads faster the first time — photo thumbnails are prepared when you upload rather than when someone first looks.
  • Bucks and does are colour-coded in your herd (blue and pink), on the phone list and the web table.
  • The doe and buck production tables in Reports fit a phone screen now instead of scrolling sideways.
  • Editing a rabbit from deep in a long herd list no longer strands you at the bottom with no way back up.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

July 28, 2026 New

July 28 Update

New: Best Overall Fur / Best Overall Wool

  • The fur/wool competition now has its own Best Overall — picked by the writer or the secretary on the fur/wool results and awarded once per breed, so a breed whose fur is split into White and Colored gets one winner, not two. It reads "Best Overall Wool" for the wool breeds and "Best Overall Fur" for the rest.
  • It appears on the exhibitor and club reports and earns sweepstakes points where a club's rules award them.

For show secretaries

  • Specialty shows no longer block Open/Youth — the same animal can be entered in a specialty or national and its Open and Youth shows. It was being turned away with an "an animal cannot be in both…" message.
  • Leg slips print the whole ear number — long ear numbers were being quietly cut off partway through.
  • Club reports get a Download JSON button, and clubs can be sent the PDF and the data file together. The fur section of the club report, which had been coming out blank, now fills in.

Entering shows from your herd

  • Meat classes from My Herd — you can now enter Meat Pens, Single Fryers, Stewers, and Roasters straight from your herd submission. Previously meat wasn't offered there at all.

Breeding & herd

  • Selling an animal carries its record — hand-entered legs and awards now transfer to the buyer along with the rabbit.
  • Settings saves where you are — each section has its own Save button, so you don't have to scroll to the bottom, and the boxes are evenly spaced.
  • The Show Wins section of the breeder report no longer times out, and cage cards get their own Age toggle that matches how ages read on your herd list.
  • Fixed a crash when filtering My Herd by breed.

Everywhere else

  • Stay signed in on your phone — "Remember me" is now on by default, so closing the tab doesn't sign you out. Uncheck it on a shared computer.
  • The help guides have been brought up to date across the breeder, portal, writer, and secretary sections.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

July 21, 2026 Update

July 21 Update

For show secretaries

  • Fun shows & playdays — you can now mark a sub-show as non-sanctioned, so a fun show or playday runs alongside your sanctioned shows without feeding legs or Grand Champion.
  • Meat classes on your count sheets — meat pens now roll into Class Counts and get their own count sheet (category → breed), with the "# Entered" column lined up between the breed and meat tables. On the control sheet, meat categories are their own dropdown pick instead of being glued to breeds.
  • Fix a show's details right up until reports go out — a show's venue, city/state, secretary, and club stay editable until every exhibitor has been sent their report, instead of locking the moment the first result is entered. (This also clears the old "City can't be changed" error on older shows.)
  • The Submit-to-a-Show picker's "Closes" date now reads the real entry deadline, and the writer DQ-reason list is a clean alphabetical picker (plus Smut and Other) instead of free text.

Entering shows

  • Saved exhibitor identities — pick a saved name/address to prefill a show submission instead of retyping it, and the show list now shows each show's full address.

Legs & Grand Champion

  • Sanctioned vs. non-sanctioned legs — when you log a manual leg, an "ARBA-sanctioned" checkbox controls whether it counts toward Grand Champion, and legs carry a Sanctioned / Non-sanctioned badge so it's clear at a glance.
  • The Show History Report now includes the actual leg slips and any legs you imported from another program.
  • Leg counts read live everywhere — the pedigree, the show history, the grandable badge, and your My Results feed all pull from one source, so the numbers match no matter where you look.

Breeding & herd

  • Foster litters — assign a kit to a foster dam's active litter, and it shows up on both the birth dam's and the foster dam's side.
  • Litters mark a kit "weaned" automatically when you promote or sell it.
  • Tattoo tracking — a yes/no tattooed status per rabbit (with a herd column and an auto-tattooed setting), laid out to take less room on the form.
  • Notes right on the rabbit page — add, edit, or clear a note inline without leaving the page.
  • Confirm before permanent actions — culling, marking deceased, or selling now asks first, so a mis-tap can't quietly change your herd.
  • Rabbitry prefix handling is cleaner: the pedigree prefix is a choice, the herd keeps prefix and name in separate columns, and an Everbreed import preserves that split.
  • Show cards get a field picker and notes, global and per-rabbit.

Reports

  • Points report — a Fur/Wool column, sort by last name, and a sub-show picker; it also runs much faster now (one slow report that could time out is fixed).
  • Breeder report — the doe and buck "Active herd only" toggles work independently.

Faster & smoother on phones

  • The herd page loads about 3.6× faster on big herds.
  • A round of mobile fixes: date pickers no longer trap you, herd search keeps the filters you tapped, tapping a herd card navigates the page cleanly, and the submit-to-show picker fits a phone screen.

Cage cards & polish

  • Cage cards put the name as the headline with the ear # smaller beneath it, and the text auto-sizes to fill the card and use the space beside the QR code.
  • The show registration page puts the "Enter this show" button up top, and dark mode now reaches every tab with a theme switcher on the More screen (plus several dark-mode readability fixes).
  • Share your experience — the homepage now features words from real HARES users, and there's a form to send us yours. If HARES has helped your rabbitry or your show, we'd love to hear it.
  • New optional "How did you hear about us?" question at signup — it helps us know what's working.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

July 14, 2026 Update

July 14 Update

Bigger features

  • Import your whole Evans herd — a new one-file import brings in every animal, pedigree, show win, and litter from an Evans XML export, all at once, in the background.
  • Grand Champion "grandable" alerts — HARES now tells you when a rabbit has met the requirements to register as a Grand Champion: a badge on the animal, a chip on your herd, and a line in your weekly digest.
  • Save legs from other programs (and paper legs) — log a leg your rabbit earned anywhere and keep the slip itself: attach the PDF your show secretary emails you, or a photo/scan (view or download it later). Record the class, judge, date, and barcode, and the leg counts toward the grandable check — HARES even warns you if you log the same barcode twice.
  • Show & transport cards — a new card you print to bring to a show (ear #, breed, showroom variety, class, exhibitor, coop #). Pick your class per rabbit at print time, choose orientation and how many per page.
  • Faster herd for big herds — the herd page now searches, sorts, and pages on the server, so it stays quick past a hundred-plus animals. Prev / Next buttons (and arrow keys) walk you through the exact list you were looking at.
  • Cavy pedigree scanning, rebuilt — the pedigree scanner now knows cavies: it detects the species, reads Boar / Sow and legs, and captures each ancestor's own breed (including Satin counterparts). A new Satin-carrier checkbox prints "(Satin Carr.)" on pedigrees.
  • Show Defaults for secretaries — set your club, secretary, and superintendent info, fee defaults, print toggles, and entry-window offsets once, and every new show fills itself in.

Breeding & herd

  • Rabbit weaning reminders are back to 8 weeks (was firing too early), with a per-breeder override, and the weekly digest splits into separate on/off switches for litters due, nest box, weaning, and reservations.
  • An optional "Prefix" column that breaks your rabbitry prefix out of the name, and an "All" status chip to see every status at once.

Sales & reservations

  • Pull back a recent sale — a rabbit sold by mistake can go back into the herd within 30 days.
  • Fulfilling a reservation now auto-emails the kit's pedigree to the customer, the same as a sale.

Legs, cage cards & pedigrees

  • The ARBA E-Leg barcode shows right on the rabbit page — no need to open the slip.
  • Cage-card QR codes can now point to either the public pedigree or the animal's HARES record, and the cage card splits Breed / Variety into Breed, Showroom, and Registration variety.

Reports

  • The Results tab and the doe/stud production tables now fit a phone screen — so you can edit placements and assign BOB/BOS/BOG/BOSG right from your phone instead of switching to a laptop.
  • Fur Sweepstakes gets its own section under the breed total, and Cremes Fur Sweepstakes added.
  • Show location splits into venue / city / state, and legs show just city + state.
  • Writer awards: an all-scratched class no longer blocks the group and breed awards.

Smaller fixes

  • "My Entries" gained search, sort, an "Enter for someone else" option, and the exhibitor's name in each show header.
  • The rabbit-page header wraps instead of crushing a long name, and the breed filter now respects the status tab you're on.

One heads-up

  • The next time you sign in you'll be asked to accept the Terms of Service once. Portal exhibitors and show writers aren't affected.

As always, thanks for using HARES. Reply to any HARES email if something looks off.

July 07, 2026 Update

July 7 Update

Bigger features

  • Meat pens, rebuilt — meat is now an add-on inside a regular sub-show (like wool/fur) instead of its own separate show. It's on the individual, bulk, and portal entry forms, and it fixes the class-overwrite collision and the meat-only-exhibitor drop on points reports.
  • Youth eligibility check — a soft heads-up when the same animal is entered in both Open and Youth, a cross-show "Flags" report on the dashboard, and a daily digest email to the secretary. Non-blocking.
  • ARBA combined report — rabbit and cavy on one page per sanction, matching the arba.net form.
  • First and Last name fields for exhibitors and breeders everywhere (secretary forms, portal, breeder submission), with First name now required.
  • Leg forecast — a public, shareable page plus a portal link, with filter controls on both tabs.
  • Customer picker — Sales, Reservations, and Customers now share one customer. Type a name or an email to pull up an existing customer (it autofills the rest), or type a new one and it's added to your customers on save.

Breeding & herd

  • Edit a recorded weight — value, date, and notes (it was add/delete only).
  • Herd weights default to lb + oz and re-display in your chosen unit.
  • The herd "Variety" column is split into Showroom and Registration.
  • Breed cleanup — the breed dropdown snaps to canonical ARBA spelling, non-ARBA junk breeds get flagged on every import, and there's a new "Clean up breeds" merge tool.

Imports

  • Evans PDF pedigree parsing fixes.
  • Import recorded legs and wins from Evans / Everbreed — editable right on the rabbit's page.
  • Everbreed re-import now refreshes prefix, weight, and legs on matched rabbits.
  • Names keep the capitalization you type.

Cage cards & pedigrees

  • Cage cards scale to fit a long ear number or name, there's a new 8-per-page layout, and your own rabbitry prefix (and a bought-in animal's Bred By prefix) is hidden from the name.
  • On the pedigree PDF, the Reg / GC numbers on great-grandparents no longer clip out of the box.

Sweepstakes

  • Angora — per-animal Best/Reserve in Show scoring plus Reserve in Show at Angora specialties (per the NARBC notice), and the four Angora breeds are merged into one "Angoras" option in the Sweepstakes viewer.

Fixes

  • Wool/fur now charges only the wool fee and counts fur separately.
  • Write-in (COD) cavy breeds get cavy class order, not rabbit.
  • The "0005 year" date-picker typo is blocked on every date field.
  • Smaller fixes: the Record Litters form no longer collapses, the Accomplishments "Edit" button works, the kit page "Back" button returns to the litter, and editing a sale no longer errors when the rabbit is cleared.
July 02, 2026 Update

July 2 Update

For show secretaries

  • The ARBA report now combines rabbit and cavy — ARBA wants each sanction's rabbits and cavies on one report, and HARES now builds it that way: one page per sanction with the counts, entry fees, judges, and both Best in Show together. If a species ran separately and wasn't in HARES, type its quick summary into the new Rabbit & Cavy completeness section on the show's Edit page and it lands on the same report. The report stays locked until the show is finished and every exhibitor and club report has gone out, with a checklist showing what's left. If you've already sent an ARBA report through HARES, please regenerate the combined version and resend it.
  • Meat pens, reworked — meat is now an add-on you switch on for a sub-show instead of a separate "Meat Show," so you enter breed and meat animals together on the individual, bulk, and portal pages. Meat still has its own results report and sweepstakes points.
  • Clearer sanction fields — the ARBA sanction number and the breed-club sanction number are now clearly labeled, so they're never mixed up.
  • Wool and fur — a wool entry is charged only the wool fee, and fur animals are counted on their own rather than as breed animals.

For breeders

  • Weights in pounds and ounces — weight entry now defaults to lb + oz everywhere, and both the entry and edit forms (kits included) follow the unit you set in Settings.
  • Showroom and Registration varieties — My Herd's Variety column splits into two you can show or hide separately.
  • Breeding planner — it now lists your active parents to pick from, and ancestors stay searchable.

Fixed

  • The Accomplishments "Edit" button works again.

Full details for the ARBA report are in the Reports section of the Secretary guide.

June 30, 2026 Update

June 30 Update

For breeders

  • Reservations — hold a baby, pair, or trio for a customer across litters, with automatic confirmation, deposit-received, and "babies born" emails, plus press-send ready / reminder / progress-photo updates — all branded as your rabbitry. Per-animal pricing, deposits, and balance owed show everywhere.
  • Leg slips on your rabbits — every HARES leg now appears as a real, printable leg slip right on the rabbit's page, and those slips carry to the buyer automatically on a HARES-to-HARES transfer.
  • Add Sire and Dam columns to My Herd.
  • Rearrange your herd columns — drag any column (including Photo and Ear #) into the order you want.
  • A clearer age on the rabbit page.
  • Litters — sort by breed, see kit weights, and bulk Promote / Mark deceased / Mark culled / Delete from the kit toolbar.
  • Two devices at once — Breeder Unlimited now allows a husband and wife (two sessions) signed in together.
  • "Retained" rabbits are now called Ancestors (pedigree-only).

For cavy folks

  • Cavy breeding — a species-aware breeding calendar (cavy gestation, no nest box, wean at 21 days), plan one boar with several sows at once, a one-click "Babies born", and cavy-correct wording throughout (born / baby / sow / boar, "Caviary").

For show secretaries

  • Entry deadlines, simplified — one clear entry window (Opens / Late fee / Closes), and each sub-show can set its own, so a specialty can close on a different day than the open show.
  • Custom names for specialties & nationals.
  • Your show logo now prints on check-in sheets, exhibitor reports, cage cards, and control sheets.
  • Leg results — after the show, a clear list of every leg earned and which animal won it.
  • Interactive Best in Show check list — tick each Best of Breed as it reaches the table and mark BIS / RIS (secretary or superintendent side), still printable.
  • DQ reasons — pick the reason from a list; a wrong-class DQ automatically becomes a W so it doesn't count against breed totals.
  • Meat classes — a standalone Meat Results report, plus meat points on the exhibitor and club reports.
  • Edit an animal per sub-show — correct a rabbit in some sub-shows but not others, or move it to a different exhibitor, without disturbing the rest.
  • Smarter writer award pickers — an animal already chosen for an award (or withdrawn) no longer shows up to be picked twice.

For exhibitors

  • See the entry counts — the portal now shows how many animals are entered per breed and per sub-show.
  • A heads-up before a late fee — the portal warns you before you're charged the late entry fee.
  • Times in your own time zone — deadlines and show times now display in your zone automatically (and you can set it yourself).

Also

  • A bigger Help guide with an in-page search box and an expanded FAQ.
  • A new Community link (our Facebook group) for questions and suggestions.
  • Withdrawing an entry is now consistent and permanent across every button.
June 23, 2026 New

June 23 Update

New

  • Transfer a rabbit to another HARES breeder — the full pedigree and complete show history (BOB/BOS, placements, and appearances) carry to the buyer's copy. From a rabbit's page: Sell ▾ → Transfer to a HARES buyer.
  • Plan a breeding — under Litters → Planned, enter a planned breed date to see the due date (or a target birth date to see when to breed), plus grow-out check-in dates. “Mark as bred” turns it into a real litter.
  • Grow-out category — a new spot in My Herd for the young stock you're still watching; promote a kit straight into it.
  • Withdraw or edit one animal on a submission — pull a single animal, or fix its class/variety/ear number, from your herd while entries are open.
  • Show catalog — secretaries upload a catalog, flyer, map, or schedule on the show's Edit page; exhibitors download it from the portal.
  • Judge fee sheet — a new printable with each judge's hire / airfare / hotel / mileage costs and a grand total.
  • Points Report — a new show-wide PDF ranking exhibitors by sweepstakes points.
  • Claim your account — entered with just an email and no password? When you go to make an account, HARES offers to claim the one you already have and keeps your past entries.
  • See your past entries after the portal closes — your submissions stay viewable once entries close.

Improved

  • My Herd — click a column to sort (stack up to three for a multi-level sort), show or hide columns, and search by buck/doe. Breed and variety are now their own columns.
  • Prettier pedigrees — the on-screen and printed pedigree got a redesigned family-tree certificate, and it prints landscape.
  • Cleaner printing across the board — headings print, nothing clips at the page edge, and a breed or section no longer splits across a page break.
  • Writer — switch sub-shows without rescanning the QR, type or pick placements, spell out “scratch” / “disqualified” (it auto-corrects to the code), and the judge + writer name carry across classes.
  • Same order everywhere — paper control sheets, the writer screen, and the results tab all sort by ear number, so a class reads the same on paper and online.
  • Superintendent — finished breeds collapse to keep each judge's column readable, and the “same breed twice” warning only fires within a division (no more false flags between Open A and Youth A).
  • Check-in sheets — email only the exhibitors who are new or changed, and sheets now order Open → Youth → Cavy.
  • Coop / cage numbers — now a per-sub-show on/off setting, so a National can use coops while Open and Youth don't.
  • Exhibitor reports — count only the animals that actually showed (scratches and wrong-class excluded), so sweepstakes points come out right.
  • Imports — clearer “which rabbit failed and why” messages, and a buck and doe that share a tattoo no longer get merged.

Fixed

  • ARBA legs — leg counting is now accurate across breed (BOB/BOS), group, and Best in Show / Reserve awards, plus a new 1st-in-class leg. Past shows recalculate automatically.
  • Ear numbers with spaces — tattoos like “FIRE AND ICE” save everywhere.
  • Write-in colors stay put when you re-edit a rabbit.
  • Cause of death / cull reason on a kit is now editable after the fact.
  • Dark-mode blue text is readable again.

Also

  • Help guides updated — the Breeder, Secretary, Portal, and Writer guides now cover all of the above.
June 16, 2026 Update

June 16 Update

New

  • Cavies in your herd — on the Add Rabbit/Cavy form, choose Cavy and you'll get cavy breeds, varieties, and Boar/Sow. Sort or filter your herd by species, and set Species as your default sort in Settings.
  • Sweepstakes for Thrianta & Silver Marten — point schedules added for both clubs, and Fur Sweepstakes points now calculate on the club and exhibitor reports.

Fixed

  • Best of Breed on the Results tab — breed-level awards a writer submits (Best of Breed / Opposite, Best Sr/Int/Jr of Breed) now show on the Results tab for multi-variety breeds. Past shows are corrected automatically.
  • Club reports — a sanctioned breed or division now always generates a report, even with zero entries, and a group sanction lists every member breed.
  • Editing a rabbit — saving a rabbit with a duplicate ear number no longer errors; you get a quick confirm instead.

Improved

  • Scratching an entry — a clearer "Scratch ▾" menu that updates in place, so you don't lose your spot on the page.
  • My Herd — the category filter sticks as you move around, and a bulk "Set breed" tool fixes typo'd breed names in one go.
  • Record a Sale — a searchable rabbit picker instead of one long list.
  • Litters — a live "# alive" count, and deleting a kit takes you back to the litter.

Also

  • Terms of Service — updated to allow us to run promotions from time to time.
June 10, 2026 Update

June 10 Update

New

  • Personal notes on your results — jot private notes on each of your animals right on the results page. They're just for you and never affect placements. The note stays with that rabbit across the day's shows, so you can start it in the morning and add to it as each show finishes.

Improved

  • See your entries and results after entries close — once a show's online entry closes, you can still sign in to view what you entered and how your animals placed. You just can't add or change entries once it's closed. Entered by phone? You can still sign in to view, too.
  • Clearer writer page — the writer now gets a reminder to assign the judge and check the writer's name on each class, and on the breeds that have them (like Creme d'Argent and Silver Fox) a reminder to pick Best Sr / Int / Jr of Breed so they don't get missed.