News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

June 9 Update

New

• Photo pedigree scanner — snap a photo of a paper pedigree and HARES reads the rabbit + ancestors into your herd to review.
• Settings page — default weight unit + which columns (and order) show on My Herd.
• Custom cage cards — orientation, fields, per-page, and a QR code.
• Pedigree branding — your rabbitry logo + accent color on pedigrees.
• Dark / Light / Auto mode — top-right of any page.
• Pre-show Leg Check — see which awards will earn an ARBA leg before the show.
• Breed & Variety Breakdown — printable, per species, with animal + exhibitor counts.
• Wool/Fur class — now on both the portal entry form and the herd "Submit to a Show" form.
• "Other (write-in)" variety — enter a color that isn't in the list.
• Late-fee deadline now takes a specific time, not just a date (secretaries).

Improved

• Class names spelled out ("Senior Buck," not "SB").
• Fees report: compact by default + an "Itemized view" toggle.
• Confirmation emails list animals in show order.
• CSV imports handle Excel-saved files better.

Fixed

• Lionhead sweepstakes points now calculate correctly.
• Superintendent print buttons work for superintendents.
• Writer's "Save & check" jumps straight to any error.
• Write-in varieties that differ only by capitalization no longer split onto two judging sheets (secretaries).
• Portal "Enter for someone else" now picks the right exhibitor when you manage several.
• Sharing a pedigree no longer errors.