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# Add past births to your herd's history

To fill in older calvings, kiddings or lambings, open your Breeding dashboard and choose **Add birth history**. You can add births from more than 120 days ago, up to 60 in one save, and each one joins the mother's history.

## Open the history form

- On your Dashboard, go to **Animals & Groups**, then **Breeding**, and choose **Add birth history**. If all your breeding animals are one species, the button uses its word, such as **Add calving history**.
- For one animal, open her **Breeding** tab and choose **Add past calvings** next to **Breeding history**.
- On a birth form, if you enter more calves than a cow usually has, choose **Add past calvings** there. It opens this form for her.
- When Creatures spots missing births, a card tells you, such as "2 calvings are missing from your cows' history." Choose **Review and add** to open the same form, or **Not now** to hide the card for 30 days.

![Breeding command center with the Add birth history button and a card saying 2 calvings are missing, with Review and add](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/e42/032/7a1/7459c.png?width=780)

## Start with what Creatures found

Under **Found from your animals' birthdays**, Creatures lists births it can tell from calves already on Creatures. Each row shows the mother, the date, the calves and the bull when known.

- Keep the tick to add the birth.
- Raise **Born alive** to count calves that aren't on Creatures.
- Choose **Not a calving** if the row is wrong. Creatures won't suggest it again.
- If the birth is already recorded but a calf isn't connected to it, the row reads like "Connect Ishbel of Cedar Hollow to Morven's Apr 18, 2024 calving." Saving connects her to that birth.

If a found birth lands within 14 days of an open pregnancy's due date, the row says it closes that breeding. Saving it records the birth for that pregnancy.

![Found from your animals' birthdays with Elspeth of Cedar Hollow on Apr 2, 2025 and Mairi of Cedar Hollow on Mar 20, 2025, both ticked](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/5db/cc6/f7d/b8532.png?width=780)

## Add a birth by hand

1. Choose **Add another calving**. It says kidding or lambing for those animals.
2. Pick the **Mother**.
3. Under **Date precision**, choose **Exact date**, or **Month and year** if you only know the month. Enter the **Birth date**, which must be more than 120 days ago. With **Month and year**, pick any day in that month. Only the month and year are saved.
4. Pick the **Bull** if you know him. This box is optional and lists males you manage.
5. Enter **Born alive**, plus the **Female** and **Male** counts if you know them. For goats these say **Doelings** and **Bucklings**.
6. Open **Add the calves** to list the babies:
   - Under **Names to create as Sold profiles**, type one name per line. Add (F) or (M) after a name to set the sex.
   - Or pick calves already on Creatures under **Or connect profiles already here**.
   - Tick **That's all the calves I want to add** when your list is complete.
7. Add **Notes** if you like. **Remove this row** drops a row you don't need.

![A past calving for Morven of Cedar Hollow on Apr 18, 2024, with 1 born alive, 1 female and Ishbel of Cedar Hollow (F) to create](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/034/a9b/343/d3e88.png?width=744)

**Born alive** must include every calf you name or connect.

## Save the history

The bottom of the form counts the births you picked, such as **3 births selected**. Choose **Save history**. Creatures confirms how many births it added and shows **View breeding history**.

Each birth then shows in the mother's **Breeding history** as a private record. Profiles made from names start as **Sold**, because a past birth usually means those babies have moved on. If a calf is still with you, connect her profile instead of typing her name.

To add the babies to a past birth later, see [Add or connect the babies after a birth](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/add-or-connect-the-babies-after-a-birth-114wh0s/).

## Newer births and big piles of records

- For births in the last 120 days, use **Record calving** on the mother's **Breeding** tab. See [Recording a birth and adding the babies](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/recording-births-and-creating-a-litter-lucvc2/).
- Have years of history in a spreadsheet, export or photos? Choose **Have a lot? Upload a spreadsheet, export or photos** in the form, or see [Importing records](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/importing-records-6lvorw/).

### Related information

- [Recording a birth and adding the babies](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/recording-births-and-creating-a-litter-lucvc2/)
- [Add or connect the babies after a birth](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/add-or-connect-the-babies-after-a-birth-114wh0s/)
- [The breeding dashboard](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/the-breeding-dashboard-1hgc4gz/)
- [Importing records](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/importing-records-6lvorw/)