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Adding an animal to Creatures

To add an animal, select Add animal, type a name, pick the species and sex, and save. A photo, birthday and the rest can come later.


On a phone, tap Create in the bottom bar, then Add animal. On a computer, select Add animal under Shortcuts in the left menu.


Create menu on a phone with an Add another row above Add animal and Import animals


Fill in the short form


  1. Type the Animal name, the name you use every day.
  2. Under What kind of animal are you adding?, tap your animal, or pick it in Or search all species. You can also type a breed, such as Nigerian Dwarf, or pick one under Breed (optional) when it appears. For a cross, type both breeds in Breed (optional), such as LaMancha/Nubian, and pick LaMancha × Nubian (cross). For a group such as snakes, choose the kind, or Not sure for now.
  3. Under Sex, choose Male, Female or Unknown. Some livestock also get a castrated choice, such as Wether or Gelding.
  4. Add an Age and a photo if you have them.
  5. Check the privacy line, Public profile · Change. To keep this animal private, select it and choose Private. It reads Private profile · Change if your settings start new animals as private.
  6. Select Create animal profile (Create Juniper’s profile once you type a name).


If you belong to a farm or organization, choose My personal profile or the farm under Where to add this animal?


Have papers or a list? Select Import from papers for a registration paper or pedigree, or Import several animals for a spreadsheet, another program's export or your website. See Importing your animals. If the animal is already on Creatures, the review offers to use its profile.


For your first animal, the form asks Where are your records today? instead. Each answer, such as Papers or Spreadsheet or list, takes you to the right import. Just in my head closes the question so you can type the animal in.


Left your first animal unsaved? Its basics stay as a Private draft · saved to your account. On any device, select Finish with its name on Home, Today or My animals, or Discard it. The photo and extra details stay behind.


Add more details


Select Add more details (optional) to fill in more now:


  • Color or pattern (optional) and a Date of birth. No exact date? Enter an estimated age, or check I don't know this animal's age. If the animal has died, select Already passed away?
  • About (optional): choose Choose easy mode to have Creatures draft a description, or Write my own.
  • More profile details for privacy, sterilized status, location, parents and offspring, and how you got the animal.


Adding another


On a phone, Create also lists Add another, such as Add another goat, which starts from your newest animal's details. On a computer, Add animal does this for 30 minutes after you add one. Select Change to change a detail.


Not your animal?


Under the name, select Adding one you sold, or a pedigree-only reference? to see What is your relationship to this animal?, with Mine chosen.


  • Never mine, pedigree reference only: an animal you never owned, such as an outside sire. This makes a reference animal, a profile that records lineage without claiming ownership.
  • I owned it before, it's been sold or given away: see below.


Relationship question with Mine selected, above the sold or given away and pedigree reference choices


You can also add a sire or dam from your animal's Pedigree tab. See Reference animals.


Photos


Choose a photo or take one, then crop, rotate or zoom it and select Use photo. On a computer, Use your phone shows a code to scan. See Add photos and papers from your phone.


No photo yet? Save anyway, and the next screen offers to add one.


After you save


The next screen says the profile is ready, with one main button to keep going, such as Add another goat. For your first animal of a herd or flock, it reads Add the rest of your goats and adds several at once. Done opens the profile.


Above those buttons are Add a record, Add photo (Change photo once there is one) and Add parents. The rest is under More, including Add a birthday or age. The Profile link is under More too.


After two or more in a row, the screen offers Add a record for these 3 goats, with all of them selected.


A public animal with a photo is shared in the community feed. After your first public animal, a line says so, with Change and then Make private to switch. Later, this control is under More, which may also ask Keep new animals private by default?


If the animal was already sold


Choose I owned it before, it's been sold or given away. Then fill in who owned it, How did the animal leave? (Sold or Given away) and When did the animal leave? This saves the history only, with no money recorded.


To record the sale money instead, select Add more details (optional) and choose I sold this animal and want to record the money in Finance. Enter the real Sale date, then select Continue to sale details to open Record sale & mark sold in Finance. The animal stays in your current animals until you save that step. See Sold your animal?



Updated on: 06/11/2026

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