How to Add Breeding Animals
Bulk-create a group of animals in one pass — ideal for newly weaned litters, shipment imports, or any time you'd add more than a couple of animals at once. Shared fields like strain and cage are set once; Moustra assigns physical tags from a prefix pattern and lets you fine-tune each row in a table before saving.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Open the Animal page
Click Animal in the navigation menu.
Open the Breeding Animals form
Click Add animal in the toolbar, then switch to the Breeding Animals tab. (The default tab is single-animal.)
Set the animal counts
Use the Males and Females sliders to pick how many animals to create. Moustra generates one row per animal in a preview table below.
Set shared details
Fill in the details every animal should share: Strain, Cage, Genotypes, Date of Birth, and Owner. Enter a Tag Prefix (and optional suffix) so Moustra can auto-number the Physical Tag on each row.
Fine-tune individual rows
Scan the preview table. Double-click any cell to override a value for just that animal — useful for mixed genotypes or off-pattern tags.
Pro Tip
Row-level edits only affect that row; changes to shared fields re-apply to every row.
Save all animals
Click Save once the table looks right. Every animal is created in a single commit.