Breeding reminders: what Creatures schedules for you

When you record a breeding with Track due date and reminders chosen, Creatures schedules her pregnancy check and a due-date reminder for you. They show on your Today page and her Records tab, and they move or clear when her dates change.

What Creatures schedules

A tracked pregnancy can get these reminders:

• A pregnancy check for her species. It's due when the usual check window opens and stays open until the window closes. For cattle that's Pregnancy check, days 28 to 50 after breeding. Goats get Pregnancy check at days 30 to 60, and sheep get Pregnancy scan at days 45 to 90. Other species get their own checks, such as early ultrasounds for mares.
• The expected birth on her due date, such as Expected Calving. You also get a heads-up a week before.
• Pre-birth progress photo, about two thirds of the way through. It's a nudge to photograph her as she gets close. You only get this one for animals with a public profile.
• Other checks that have a Record button in What to expect on her Breeding tab, such as a dog's ultrasound.
• Care tasks for some species. A cow gets Last-trimester feeding and body-condition review, Pre-calving vaccine review, Calving preparation and Begin calving watch. A mare gets EHV-1 vaccine reminders at months 5, 7 and 9, a pre-foaling booster review and Begin foal watch.

Reminders appear about 90 days ahead, so a due date many months away shows up later. Checks marked optional, such as Fetal sexing (optional), never become reminders. They stay in What to expect and the projected lists below.

Setting a clutch of eggs works much the same way, with checks such as candling. See Set a clutch of eggs and follow incubation.

Where you see them

On your Today page, a check shows under Individual animals once its window opens. The row tells you when the window closes. When three or more females of one species have the same check open, Today folds them into one row, such as Pregnancy check for 3 does. Select it to complete each one, or, for a pregnancy check, use Record results (see below).

Her Records tab lists the same reminders under Care schedule. There you can also skip or snooze one.

On the Breeding dashboard, Projected care reminders shows projected checks for the next 30 days across your herd, such as optional fetal sexing. Open Care takes you to all your care.

Finish a pregnancy check

1. On Today, choose Complete on her check.
2. The form opens with Pregnancy Check chosen. Set the Date of the exam.
3. Under Pregnancy result, choose Pregnant, Open or Not sure. Some species say Not pregnant instead of Open. For Pregnant, you can also enter How many? (optional).
4. Add notes if you like, then choose Save Record.

Saving the check marks the reminder done. If the vet also gave you a due date, update it with Change dates or due date. If you choose Open, Creatures offers End breeding so the rest of her reminders for this pregnancy clear. For cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, horses and donkeys, it can also offer End and remind me to rebreed, with the day she should next come into heat. That ends the breeding and adds a reminder, such as Rebreed Morven, for that day. See When a breeding doesn't take.

Record several pregnancy checks at once

1. On Today, choose Record results on the folded pregnancy check row.
2. Record pregnancy-check results lists each female with Include ticked. Set the Check date (today or earlier).
3. Pick each one's Result: Pregnant, Open or Not sure. For Pregnant, you can add How many? (optional). If she has more than one open breeding, choose one under Which breeding is this check for?
4. Untick Include for any you haven't checked. One left at Not recorded still saves a check and closes her reminder.
5. Choose Save 3 checks (the button counts them).

The receipt, such as 3 pregnancy checks saved, links to each saved check. For each female marked Open, it offers End breeding, and End and remind me to rebreed when Creatures knows her next heat.

When dates change or she isn't pregnant

• Change dates or due date on her pregnancy card moves her due date, window and open reminders together. See Tracking pregnancy and progress.
• End breeding clears the upcoming reminders for a breeding that didn't take.
• Once she's due, one question, such as Calves here yet?, shows on Today, the bell, the Action Center, Home, her Records tab, Needs a look and her reminder email. Its link, such as From her Jul 3 breeding, opens that breeding. Yes, add them opens the birth form; saving closes the pregnancy. Owners and co-owners can choose Not yet to be asked once more, usually three days later, or Not pregnant to end the breeding.

• Want a note with no reminders at all? Choose Record only under Record as when you record the breeding.

Your own routines

Some jobs aren't tied to one pregnancy, such as vaccinating cows before calving season or a weekly body condition check. Build a care plan for those. See Create and manage a care plan.

Related information

• Tracking pregnancy and progress
• When a breeding doesn't take: end it, rebreed, or fix a duplicate
• Reminders and upcoming care
• Your Today page: what's due and how to check it off

Updated on: 03/11/2026