Hey all, I’m Keaton. My husband and I run KD Exotics, a small herp and bird room in the Treasure Valley in Idaho. Just so it’s said up front: I’m one of the people behind the app in this post.
We built BroodStock because our records were spread across spreadsheets, notebooks and our phones. We wanted one place for everything from the animal and the pairing through eggs, hatch and sale.
Here’s what it handles right now:
- Animals and breeding: individual records, pairings, and a pairing planner
- Incubation: clutch tracking and hatch alerts
- Genetics: a calculator for Mendelian and Z-linked traits, plus photo-based morph ID
- Sales: a storefront, waitlist, deposits and bill of sale
- Paperwork: permits, CITES and manifests, plus P&L and tax-ready reports
- Ranger: an optional AI assistant. It sends a morning summary and drafts buyer replies, and it doesn’t change anything until you approve it.
You can import your existing spreadsheet, and you can export all of your data whenever you want, so nothing gets locked in. There’s a free tier for up to 10 animals, and paid tiers start at $10 a month.
What I’d really love from this group:
- How are you tracking your collection and breeding records right now?
- What’s the most annoying part of the paperwork side?
- If you’ve tried other tracking apps, what made you stick with one or drop it?
There’s a no-account demo at broodstock.app if you want to poke around. I’m happy to answer questions here, and I’d rather hear what’s missing than hear that it’s great. 