Reading the reports
The reports turn your nest records and race results into answers: which pairings, which breeders and which racers are earning their place.
The four reports
Go to Reports and choose a tab:
- Best pairings: every cock and hen combination, judged on how all the youngsters they've bred together have raced.
- Best breeders: every bird that has bred, judged on its youngsters and its grand-youngsters. This is the pedigree performance of each line.
- Best racers: every bird with race results, with its sire and dam so you can see where the performers come from.
- Breeding record: fertility, hatching and weaning for each stock bird, from the nest records.
Choose what counts
Above each report you can choose:
- Ranked on: which placings count. Club placings uses each race's club competition. Pick a single competition to rank on just that, or Loft order to compare your own birds against each other.
- The years of races to include.
- A minimum number of race entries. Start with At least 5 entries to focus on proven lines.
Small numbers mislead
A pairing with one youngster that won once will top the table. Use the "at least N entries" filter before drawing conclusions.
What the columns mean
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Young / Raced | How many youngsters were bred, and how many of them have raced. |
| Entries | Race entries. A bird sent but not placed still counts as an entry. |
| Wins / Top 10 | Firsts, and placings in the top 10. |
| Avg pos | Average finishing position. |
| Avg top % | Average position as a share of the birds in each race, so big and small races compare fairly. 1st of 500 is 0.2%; 50th of 500 is 10%. Lower is better. Races without the number of birds competing are left out. |
| Best vel. | The best velocity recorded. |
Take it further
Every report has Export CSV to open it in Excel. Click any bird or pairing to open it, then use Pedigree on a bird's page to print its pedigree with results.
Ask the assistant
Which pairs bred the best racers?
or How have Blue Thunder's youngsters raced?