Tracking pregnancy and progress
Open the mother's profile and choose Breeding. Her pregnancy card shows when she's due and how far along she is. Its buttons add a progress photo, change the dates or record the birth.
You see the card when you can manage her records. Visitors see only the breeding history you've made public.
Read the pregnancy card
The card starts with what to expect, such as Calving expected. Below that you'll see:
- The due date. If you recorded a range of service dates, the card shows the likely range instead, such as Nov 2 to Nov 12, 2026.
- Window: the days the birth will most likely fall in. When the due date is a range, that range is the window, so this line doesn't show.
- What the date is based on, such as the service date.
- A progress bar, such as Day 214 of ~280. It's general timing, not a health check.
- For cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, horses, dogs and rabbits, her current stage, such as Now · Month 8, with its name, what's developing, a size guide and how to help her. All stages lists the rest. Creatures also sends you an update at each new stage. Turn these off with Pregnancy stage updates in your notification settings.
- How many progress photos are attached, and Sired by with the sire's profile. With no sire recorded, Sire? may offer up to three of your bulls to tap.
- For a goat or a donkey, Colors to expect shows possible kid or foal colors.
Change the dates after a vet check
If the vet gives you a better date, fix it on the same breeding. Don't record a second breeding to correct a date.
- Choose Change dates or due date on the card. You can also tap the due date itself.
- Under What should the projection use?, pick one:
- Known service dates: the day she was bred. Add a last date if the male ran with her for a while.
- Explicit expected date: the due date your vet gave you.
- Choose Update projection.
Her due date, window and open reminders all move together. If you open the breeding's first record to edit it, its dates are locked, and Change dates or due date sits beside Date. Use that link, and the record's notes and other details still save as usual. If you started tracking from a vet's pregnancy check, you'll also see Gestational age at exam. Use it for the vet's guess of how far along she is.
Add progress and act on milestones
Add progress photo saves a photo and note to this pregnancy. It starts private. Sharing it with buyers who reserved a calf is a separate choice. See Sharing pregnancy updates with reserved buyers.
What to expect lists the usual checks and care for her species and when they fall. For a cow, that's a Pregnancy check about four to seven weeks after breeding, and later a feeding review, a pre-calving vaccine review, calving preparation and calving watch. Choose Record beside a check to save the result. Checks marked optional, such as Fetal sexing (optional), are there if you want them. Open gestation calculator opens the gestation calculator for her species.
See Photos to attach? Those progress photos were saved without a pregnancy. Choose Attach to cycle so each one lands in the right timeline.
Once she has a finished pregnancy with photos, Compare lines up both pregnancies by days before the due date. It helps you spot the same signs again.
When something changes
- Tracking a breeding sets its due-date reminder when you save. Track one that is already past due and the question, such as Calves here yet?, shows on Today right away, with no catch-up email.
- Needs a look shows at the top of the tab when something needs your attention. For example, she's due and no birth is recorded yet, or she has two open breedings.
- If the breeding didn't take, tap the dots button on the card (More breeding actions) and pick what happened. See When a breeding doesn't take.
- When she gives birth, choose Record calving (or the word for your species). See Recording a birth and adding the babies.
Share the pregnancy and keep her history
A tracked breeding saved with Make public on usually starts a public page for the coming calves, and a note on the card offers Keep private. See Recording a breeding. If the page is private, the card may ask Show Kirsty's calf publicly? It asks once, with Yes or Show publicly, and No.
Once she has a page, the card shows Open calf crop (the calves' group) and Share photos and updates publicly. With no page yet, choose Share upcoming calves publicly to start one. See Share offspring updates on a public page.
Below the card, Breeding history keeps her past pregnancies and births. Use Add past calvings to add births from more than 120 days ago. On a bull or other male, As sire lists the breedings he sired.
Related information
- Recording a breeding
- When a breeding doesn't take: end it, rebreed, or fix a duplicate
- Breeding reminders: what Creatures schedules for you
- Sharing pregnancy updates with reserved buyers
Updated on: 06/11/2026
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