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# When a breeding doesn't take: end it, rebreed, or fix a duplicate

End the breeding and pick what happened: **She came back into heat**, **Not pregnant** or **Lost the pregnancy**. Creatures keeps the mating in her history, clears its upcoming reminders and takes the pregnancy card off her **Breeding** tab.

## End a breeding

1. Open the mother's profile and choose **Breeding**.
2. On her pregnancy card, tap the dots button (**More breeding actions**). On the [Breeding dashboard](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/the-breeding-dashboard-1hgc4gz/), use the dots on her row instead.
3. Pick what happened.

![More breeding actions open on Kirsty's card with She came back into heat, Not pregnant, Lost the pregnancy and Recorded by mistake](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/f3c/051/4db/ff186.png?width=780)

The **End breeding** panel opens:

- **What happened?** shows the reason you picked. You can change it here.
- **Date (optional)**: the day you found out. It can't be later than today.
- The panel lists the reminders it will clear, such as her expected calving.

Choose **End breeding**. You'll see "Breeding ended. Its upcoming reminders are cleared."

![End breeding for Kirsty with Not pregnant chosen and the Expected Calving reminder it will clear](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/1be/cde/3e9/49d94.png?width=780)

If Creatures started a public page for this pregnancy, ending the breeding takes it down. A page you chose to show, or published to yourself, stays up until you turn off **Visible to the public** on the group's **Settings** tab.

If you picked **She came back into heat**, a **Record her new breeding** button appears next. Use it when she has been bred again.

You can also get here from **Change dates or due date**. Choose **Breeding didn't take? End it** at the bottom.

## After an open pregnancy check

When the vet finds her open (not pregnant), save her **Pregnancy Check** and choose **Open** under **Pregnancy result**. Some species say **Not pregnant** instead. You can save it from **Complete** on your **Today** page, from **Record results** when Today groups several checks, or from **Add record**.

The saved check asks if you want to end this breeding. After **Record results**, the receipt asks for each open female. Choose **End breeding** to clear her remaining reminders for it. If Creatures knows when she should come back into heat, it also offers **End and remind me to rebreed**, with that date. That ends the breeding and adds a reminder, such as **Rebreed Catriona of Cedar Hollow**, for that day. The same offer stays on the check in her **Records** tab, and in **Needs a look** on her **Breeding** tab and the Breeding dashboard, until you act on it. If a later check says she's pregnant, the offer goes away.

![Catriona's open pregnancy check with End and remind me to rebreed and End breeding](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/e22/270/c7e/33d4e.png?width=780)

## Record a new breeding while one is still open

Say she was bred again before you ended the first breeding. When you record the new one with **Track due date and reminders** chosen, her row asks **What happened?**:

- **Replace it**: she came back into heat. Creatures ends the earlier breeding and tracks the new one.
- **Same heat**: this service belongs with the earlier one. Creatures adds it to that breeding and widens her due window.
- **Keep both**: keep both breedings and their reminders.

Nothing is picked for you, so choose the one that fits. Services a few days apart usually mean **Same heat**. A gap as long as her heat cycle usually means **Replace it**. [Record breedings for several animals at once](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/record-breedings-for-several-animals-at-once-o1tlq0/) asks the same question for each animal.

## Fix two open breedings

If a mother has two open breedings, **Needs a look** shows on her **Breeding** tab and on the Breeding dashboard. It names both dates.

- **Keep** with the later date, such as **Keep Jul 24**, keeps that breeding and ends the earlier one.
- **Choose** opens **Choose a breeding**. Pick the one to keep and choose **Keep selected breeding**. Or choose **Keep both** to leave them as they are.

![Needs a look: Mairi has two open breedings, with Keep Jul 24 and Choose](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/eb8/64c/8c4/0945a.png?width=780)

If a check already confirmed one of them pregnant, you can't end that one from here. Use **End breeding** and pick a reason.

**Needs a look** also asks when a mother is a week past her due date with no birth recorded. Choose **Record calving** (or the word for your species) if she gave birth, or **Not pregnant** to end the breeding.

## Recorded by mistake

**Recorded by mistake** deletes the breeding record after you confirm with **Delete record**. Use it only for a breeding that never happened. A public page Creatures started for that breeding comes down too. If she was bred and it didn't take, end the breeding instead, so her history stays true.

### Related information

- [Tracking pregnancy and progress](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/tracking-pregnancy-and-progress-kbmkix/)
- [Breeding reminders: what Creatures schedules for you](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/breeding-and-reproductive-care-protocols-1lvdc7j/)
- [Recording a breeding](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/recording-a-breeding-h3gp9n/)
- [The breeding dashboard](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/the-breeding-dashboard-1hgc4gz/)