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# Download a birth schedule for your herd

On the Breeding dashboard, choose **Reports**, pick the animals, then choose **Spreadsheet** or **PDF** to get a schedule of every pairing, due date and recorded birth.

The PDF is made to print and pin up in the barn. The spreadsheet holds the same facts in columns you can sort and filter.

## Open the schedule

1. Open **Dashboard**, then **Breeding** under **Animals & Groups**.
2. Choose **Reports**. It shows once you have animals.
3. **Reports** opens with **Birth schedule** already chosen. When the animals you pick are all one species, it uses that species' word, such as **Calving schedule**. The count beside it shows how many mothers have a current pairing.

![Reports with the Reports and Field sheets tabs, Cedar Hollow cows chosen under Animals and Calving schedule selected, showing 3 cows with pairings](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/bed/dcc/1a6/92bd9.png?width=1120)

## Choose what goes in

- **Herd**: your own animals, or an organization you help run.
- **Animals**: **Whole herd**, one of your groups (such as Cedar Hollow cows), or **Choose animals** to pick them by name.
- **Birth history from** (or the species' word, such as **Calving history from**): how far back to list past births. It starts at **This year**. You can also pick **Last 12 months**, **Last year**, **Last 30 days**, **Last 90 days** or **Custom**. Current pairings always show as of today.
- **Paper**: **Letter** or **A4**.
- **Include private records**: adds breedings and checks you keep private. Anyone holding the file can read them, so leave it off for a copy you plan to share.
- **Include sold, deceased and in-custody animals**: adds animals that are no longer in your herd.

If a mother has two open breedings, a note warns that the report shows only the later one. Choose **Fix now** to sort it out first. See [When a breeding doesn't take](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/when-a-breeding-doesnt-take-1sgyg5f/).

## Download it

Check the summary above the buttons. It names the report and the animals, then says how many mothers have pairings, whether private records are in, and a rough page count.

![Calving schedule summary for Cedar Hollow cows, 3 cows with pairings and private records included, above the Spreadsheet and Download PDF buttons](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/3ec/41e/181/6ad72.png?width=1120)

Choose **Spreadsheet** or **PDF**. On a computer the second button reads **Download PDF**. The file saves to your device, and Creatures says "Your report is ready."

## What's in the schedule

When all the animals are one species, the schedule uses its word, such as **Calving schedule** or **Kidding schedule**.

![Calving schedule PDF for Cedar Hollow cows with active pairings, then each cow's bred date, bull, status and due window by month](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/07a/4c6/66f/0518b.png?width=1465)

The PDF opens with a few totals: active pairings, exam-confirmed pregnancies, planned pairings, and mothers with no pairing. Then comes the schedule, grouped by the month each mother is due. Each row shows:

- the mother and her breed
- the date she was bred and the sire
- her status, such as bred but not yet confirmed, and the latest pregnancy check
- her due date or window

The last columns hold the birth date, the number of females and males, and notes. They fill in when you record the birth, and stay blank until then so you can write on the printout.

After the schedule, a chart counts due dates by week, and mothers with no current pairing are listed. The birth history for the period you chose comes next. When all due dates fall within six months, a calendar page for each month comes last.

If you left private records out, the PDF says how many it skipped. A mother with two open breedings gets a note on her row with a link to her **Breeding** tab.

The spreadsheet has two sheets: the schedule and the birth history. It adds columns such as tag, breeding method, pregnancy check result, dry-off date and a link to each mother's **Breeding** tab.

### Related information

- [Download herd reports](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/download-herd-reports-2z2ync/)
- [The breeding dashboard](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/the-breeding-dashboard-1hgc4gz/)
- [Tracking pregnancy and progress](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/tracking-pregnancy-and-progress-kbmkix/)