Organising pairings by season
How to use seasons to keep your breeding records organised, read aggregated stats for a full breeding year, and build a history that serious buyers use to evaluate your operation.
What seasons are
A season is a year — 2024, 2025, 2026. Every pairing is tagged to the year it started, either automatically from your pairing date or manually in the Season Year field. Seasons let you filter your pairings list to a specific year, see aggregated stats for the whole season at a glance, and keep your dashboard from becoming an undifferentiated list of everything you have ever bred.
How seasons are assigned
When you set a pairing date, the Season Year field is populated automatically from that date's year. A pairing introduced on 15 March 2026 gets season 2026. You can manually override this — some breeders use a season calendar that doesn't follow the standard year, particularly in the southern hemisphere where a breeding season may run July through February.
The season stats bar
On your Pairings dashboard, the stats bar shows aggregated totals for your current filter. When you select a specific season, you see: total pairings that season, how many are active vs. completed, total eggs laid across all clutches, and total hatchlings produced. These numbers are useful for planning — how many clutches can you realistically manage? Which seasons had the best hatch rates?
Filtering and grouping
The season and status filters on your Pairings dashboard are URL-based, so filters are shareable and bookmarkable. When no season is selected, pairings are grouped by year with section headers so you can scan across seasons at a glance. Select a specific season to see a flat grid of that year only. Combine season and status filters to find, for example, all active pairings from the current season.
Building a breeding history that sells
Over time, your season records become a breeding history. A buyer who visits your profile and sees organised seasons — 2024: 8 pairings, 47 hatchlings / 2025: 11 pairings, 62 hatchlings — is seeing evidence of an established, reliable operation. That track record is a trust signal that no amount of listing copy can replicate. It is earned through consistent record-keeping, one season at a time.
Important note
Do not delete completed pairings. A completed pairing with a full timeline and sold-out hatchlings is your most valuable marketing asset when future buyers are deciding whether to join your next waitlist.
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