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Hatchling Records with Linked Lineage

When a clutch hatches, create hatchling profiles right from the clutch. Each one becomes a full animal in your Library with its parentage already linked.

Creating hatchlings

A hatched Clutch Info screen with a Hatchlings card reading 'Create animal profiles for the 5 hatchlings from this clutch' and a Create Hatchling Profiles button.
  1. Open the clutch and record the hatch (or the birth, with live and stillborn counts for live-bearers). When you mark a clutch hatched, you can set the hatch date — it defaults to today but you can change it.
The Create Hatchlings form: a Total / Males / Females / Unsexed count row, a Number of Hatchlings field, an Animal IDs section for sequential numbering, and a Hatch date picker.
  1. Create hatchling profiles from it. Set how many were male, female, or unsexed, and Scutely creates them in a batch. The hatch date carries onto every hatchling as its birth date, and you can edit it right on this screen.
The lower Create Hatchlings form: an Add to group / rack selector, a Sex Assignment counter with an Apply button, Set Prey and Bulk Edit shortcuts, and per-hatchling rows each with an ID, prey item, and sex.
3. Give each hatchling its **traits** as you identify them, plus a starting weight and feeder status. To move fast across the whole batch: - **Set prey for all** — apply one prey item to every hatchling at once. - **Bulk edit** — select some (or all) and set traits, sex, prey, or IDs together. - **Add to a group or rack** — drop the whole batch into a care group as you create them, so they're scheduled from day one. See [Care groups](/care-groups/groups/). 4. From there each one is a normal animal profile. Add photos, confirm sex when you can, and fill in details over time.

Because they come from the clutch, their lineage is linked automatically: the sire and dam are already set. (For tarantula keepers, they’re slings here, not hatchlings.)

Cage cards for the whole clutch

Once the hatchlings exist, you can print cage cards for all of them at once from the clutch, instead of one animal at a time. Select the hatchlings and print — each card carries the animal’s ID, species, and traits. See ID cards & enclosure QR codes.

Lineage

An animal's Family screen: a Parents section with sire and dam cards showing their traits, a View Full Family Tree button, and a Clutch Mates list of siblings with their sex, birth date, and traits.

Once parentage is linked, it flows through the app:

  • A hatchling’s profile shows its sire and dam, plus siblings and the family tree beyond them.
  • On paid plans, the family tree goes up to 6 generations, and you can print a pedigree chart to hand a buyer with their animal.
  • Public animal pages can show full lineage, including parents’ traits, sex, year, and breeder.
  • You can build parentage manually too, from the create/edit animal screen, by picking a sire and dam.

Tap View Full Family Tree for the pannable, zoomable graph, with each animal linked to sire and dam across the generations.

The Family Tree graph: an animal card in the center connected up to its sire and dam cards, on a pannable dotted canvas with Fit and refresh controls.

Track them from day one

Hatchlings are regular animals: log their care events, track weights and growth, and manage them in your Library like anything else.