News

New

• Transfer a rabbit to another HARES breeder — the full pedigree and complete show history (BOB/BOS, placements, and appearances) carry to the buyer's copy. From a rabbit's page: Sell ▾ → Transfer to a HARES buyer.
• Plan a breeding — under Litters → Planned, enter a planned breed date to see the due date (or a target birth date to see when to breed), plus grow-out check-in dates. “Mark as bred” turns it into a real litter.
• Grow-out category — a new spot in My Herd for the young stock you're still watching; promote a kit straight into it.
• Withdraw or edit one animal on a submission — pull a single animal, or fix its class/variety/ear number, from your herd while entries are open.
• Show catalog — secretaries upload a catalog, flyer, map, or schedule on the show's Edit page; exhibitors download it from the portal.
• Judge fee sheet — a new printable with each judge's hire / airfare / hotel / mileage costs and a grand total.
• Points Report — a new show-wide PDF ranking exhibitors by sweepstakes points.
• Claim your account — entered with just an email and no password? When you go to make an account, HARES offers to claim the one you already have and keeps your past entries.
• See your past entries after the portal closes — your submissions stay viewable once entries close.

Improved

• My Herd — click a column to sort (stack up to three for a multi-level sort), show or hide columns, and search by buck/doe. Breed and variety are now their own columns.
• Prettier pedigrees — the on-screen and printed pedigree got a redesigned family-tree certificate, and it prints landscape.
• Cleaner printing across the board — headings print, nothing clips at the page edge, and a breed or section no longer splits across a page break.
• Writer — switch sub-shows without rescanning the QR, type or pick placements, spell out “scratch” / “disqualified” (it auto-corrects to the code), and the judge + writer name carry across classes.
• Same order everywhere — paper control sheets, the writer screen, and the results tab all sort by ear number, so a class reads the same on paper and online.
• Superintendent — finished breeds collapse to keep each judge's column readable, and the “same breed twice” warning only fires within a division (no more false flags between Open A and Youth A).
• Check-in sheets — email only the exhibitors who are new or changed, and sheets now order Open → Youth → Cavy.
• Coop / cage numbers — now a per-sub-show on/off setting, so a National can use coops while Open and Youth don't.
• Exhibitor reports — count only the animals that actually showed (scratches and wrong-class excluded), so sweepstakes points come out right.
• Imports — clearer “which rabbit failed and why” messages, and a buck and doe that share a tattoo no longer get merged.

Fixed

• ARBA legs — leg counting is now accurate across breed (BOB/BOS), group, and Best in Show / Reserve awards, plus a new 1st-in-class leg. Past shows recalculate automatically.
• Ear numbers with spaces — tattoos like “FIRE AND ICE” save everywhere.
• Write-in colors stay put when you re-edit a rabbit.
• Cause of death / cull reason on a kit is now editable after the fact.
• Dark-mode blue text is readable again.

Also

• Help guides updated — the Breeder, Secretary, Portal, and Writer guides now cover all of the above.

New

• Cavies in your herd — on the Add Rabbit/Cavy form, choose Cavy and you'll get cavy breeds, varieties, and Boar/Sow. Sort or filter your herd by species, and set Species as your default sort in Settings.
• Sweepstakes for Thrianta & Silver Marten — point schedules added for both clubs, and Fur Sweepstakes points now calculate on the club and exhibitor reports.

Fixed

• Best of Breed on the Results tab — breed-level awards a writer submits (Best of Breed / Opposite, Best Sr/Int/Jr of Breed) now show on the Results tab for multi-variety breeds. Past shows are corrected automatically.
• Club reports — a sanctioned breed or division now always generates a report, even with zero entries, and a group sanction lists every member breed.
• Editing a rabbit — saving a rabbit with a duplicate ear number no longer errors; you get a quick confirm instead.

Improved

• Scratching an entry — a clearer "Scratch ▾" menu that updates in place, so you don't lose your spot on the page.
• My Herd — the category filter sticks as you move around, and a bulk "Set breed" tool fixes typo'd breed names in one go.
• Record a Sale — a searchable rabbit picker instead of one long list.
• Litters — a live "# alive" count, and deleting a kit takes you back to the litter.

Also

• Terms of Service — updated to allow us to run promotions from time to time.

New

• Personal notes on your results — jot private notes on each of your animals right on the results page. They're just for you and never affect placements. The note stays with that rabbit across the day's shows, so you can start it in the morning and add to it as each show finishes.

Improved

• See your entries and results after entries close — once a show's online entry closes, you can still sign in to view what you entered and how your animals placed. You just can't add or change entries once it's closed. Entered by phone? You can still sign in to view, too.
• Clearer writer page — the writer now gets a reminder to assign the judge and check the writer's name on each class, and on the breeds that have them (like Creme d'Argent and Silver Fox) a reminder to pick Best Sr / Int / Jr of Breed so they don't get missed.

June 9 Update

New

• Photo pedigree scanner — snap a photo of a paper pedigree and HARES reads the rabbit + ancestors into your herd to review.
• Settings page — default weight unit + which columns (and order) show on My Herd.
• Custom cage cards — orientation, fields, per-page, and a QR code.
• Pedigree branding — your rabbitry logo + accent color on pedigrees.
• Dark / Light / Auto mode — top-right of any page.
• Pre-show Leg Check — see which awards will earn an ARBA leg before the show.
• Breed & Variety Breakdown — printable, per species, with animal + exhibitor counts.
• Wool/Fur class — now on both the portal entry form and the herd "Submit to a Show" form.
• "Other (write-in)" variety — enter a color that isn't in the list.
• Late-fee deadline now takes a specific time, not just a date (secretaries).

Improved

• Class names spelled out ("Senior Buck," not "SB").
• Fees report: compact by default + an "Itemized view" toggle.
• Confirmation emails list animals in show order.
• CSV imports handle Excel-saved files better.

Fixed

• Lionhead sweepstakes points now calculate correctly.
• Superintendent print buttons work for superintendents.
• Writer's "Save & check" jumps straight to any error.
• Write-in varieties that differ only by capitalization no longer split onto two judging sheets (secretaries).
• Portal "Enter for someone else" now picks the right exhibitor when you manage several.
• Sharing a pedigree no longer errors.