Everything this platform does, explained

This is a record book for a racing pigeon club. You keep your own birds in it: their ring numbers, their parents, what they did in a basket, and what a vet did for them. The platform builds the family tree out of those parent links by itself, works out which of your birds throw the best children, and prints a certificate a buyer can verify by scanning a QR code.

Five steps, and only one of them depends on somebody else.

1. 1

   Create an account

   Email and a password, or Continue with Google.

2. 2

   You are pending

   You can sign in and look around, but nothing can be saved yet.

3. 3

   An admin approves you

   A club admin reviews the request from the Members page.

4. 4

   Your loft is created

   Automatically, in the same moment as the approval. Name it and add your details in Settings.

5. 5

   Add your first bird

   A ring number is genuinely all you need to start. Everything else can follow later.

Everything you create belongs to your loft and is resolved from your login, never from something you pick on screen. You will not find a loft chooser anywhere in the app, because there is nothing to choose.

• Another member cannot see, search or open your birds — a record from another loft reads as simply not existing.
• Ring numbers are unique inside your loft, not across the club. Two members may legitimately hold the same number.
• A parent must live in your own loft. That is why a bird off somebody else's paper certificate is typed in as an ancestor rather than borrowed.
• The one thing you deliberately hand out is a share link, and you can revoke it whenever you like.

A pigeon record has twenty fields and exactly one you cannot leave out. The table below is the whole record: what each field is for, and — the column most people come here for — whether it changes a number somewhere else in the app.

The ring number is the bird's passport. It is what a race sheet is matched against, what a buyer checks a certificate by, and what the QR page proves.

One field deserves its own paragraph. To build a four-generation tree you have to type in fourteen birds you have never owned. If those landed in your pigeon list, a loft of forty real birds would read as three hundred records. So a bird you keep is a loft bird and a bird that exists only in a tree is an ancestor — same rules, same tree, simply kept out of your list and your counts. You can promote one to the other at any time, in one click.

You never draw a tree. You tell each bird who its father and mother are, and the tree is what those links look like when they are read upward.

• The sire must be a cock and the dam must be a hen. Getting them the wrong way round is refused, not quietly corrected.
• A bird whose sex is still U cannot be a parent, and does not appear in either picker. Set its sex first.
• A parent has to be in your own loft. If the bird is not there yet, add it from inside the picker as an ancestor.
• A pigeon cannot be its own ancestor. The picker hides the bird's own descendants, and the server walks the chain again before saving.

Deleting a bird that is somebody's parent is refused, because it would put a hole in its children's trees. Change its status to deceased or sold instead — the record stays, the tree stays, and the bird leaves your active list.

Photograph a paper pedigree certificate and the platform reads the text off it, works out which bird is which, and hands you a table to check. It is a typing shortcut, not an oracle.

Ring numbers already in your loft are linked to rather than duplicated, so scanning a second card that shares a grandfather does not give you two of him.

If your loft already lives in a spreadsheet, export it as CSV and upload it. Only one column is required — up to five thousand rows in one file.

The file is read twice. The first pass creates every bird with no parents attached; the second goes back and links the sires and dams by ring number. That is why a chick may sit above its own father in the file and still come out linked — order does not matter.

A result is one bird in one race. You can add them one at a time from the bird's own page, or upload a club race sheet and let every row find its bird by ring number.

A race sheet is matched by ring number against your loft birds only. A bird you typed in as a pedigree-only ancestor never flew for you, so it is not considered — but if the platform spots that the ring you uploaded belongs to one of your ancestors, it says so and offers to move that bird into your loft on the spot.

Sometimes called the "best pigeon" ranking — here's what the platform actually measures.

A bird scores higher when it beats more birds. Finishing 5th out of 2,000 is worth far more than 5th out of 50, and a national is worth more than a club race against the same field. Those two ideas are the whole model. Everything below is them written out carefully enough that you can check the platform's arithmetic against your own.

Most pairings you are thinking about have never raced a chick, so there is nothing to score them on yet. The match answers the question you actually have in front of the stock loft: given what these two birds have done themselves, should they go together at all?

Three things are weighed, and they are the three a fancier weighs anyway: do both birds win from the same distance, is the eye colour different, and are the parents' own results any good. Form carries the most weight because it is the only one backed by a whole race record; the eye carries the least because it is tradition rather than measurement, and the platform treats it as exactly that.

This is the assessment you make with the bird in your hand, set out the way a handling card is: General (first impression, back, muscles, balance), Wings, Eyes and Ventbones. Each of those ten rows gets a mark out of 10 — quarter marks like 9.25 are fine — and the ten marks add up to a total out of 100. A half-finished card is scaled from the rows you marked, so it is never punished for being half-finished.

You never lay the card out. Every box on it fills itself from what you have already recorded — the ring numbers you typed, the parents you linked, the results you entered. This section is the sheet, region by region: what arrives there on its own, and what is yours to change.

A single box reads top to bottom in the order a fancier looks things up. The ring number sits in a ruled header with ♂, ♀ or ? at its right edge. Under it, in blue, the strain · colour · year line; then the bird's name; then its bloodline callout; then its note; then its results. A field you never filled in simply does not print and the box gets shorter — nothing is padded out, and no box announces what it does not know.

There are two ways to change what the card says, and the difference between them matters more than anything else on this page. Editing the RECORD — tapping a box on the Pedigree tab — changes the bird itself: on its own page, in every list, and on every card you print of it from then on. Making a DRAFT changes only that one card: the wording, what is hidden, the colours. A draft never writes a single field back to a pigeon, and that is the whole reason it exists — preparing a bird for sale should not mean altering your own records.

A certificate is a four-generation pedigree on one A4 sheet, with your loft's details, your signature and a QR code. It is generated as a snapshot: the PDF and the picture are captured at the moment you make them and stored, so redesigning the sheet later does not alter a card somebody is already holding.

1. 1

   Edit first

   Make a draft if you want to reword a box, hide a branch or colour a panel. The bird's own record is never touched by any of it.

2. 2

   Generate

   You get a PDF and a picture from one render, plus a QR code pointing at a public page.

3. 3

   Hand it over

   Print it, or send the picture. Both show exactly what you proofread.

4. 4

   The buyer verifies

   Scanning the QR opens the same card on the web, with no login. What they see matches the paper in their hand.

The QR proves one thing precisely: that this ring number is recorded in this club's register with this pedigree behind it. The subject's ring number and the verify code cannot be reworded or hidden on any card — a certificate whose ring number could be faked would be worthless.

Health records hang off a bird, so a bird's page shows its own history. There is also a loft-wide list, which is the one you want in the week before a race when you are checking what the whole team has had.

A pair records which cock went with which hen, in which season and round. Eggs are tracked underneath it, and when one hatches you register the chick — which creates a real pigeon with both parents already linked.

Each hatched egg gives exactly one offspring slot, so a pair tracking no eggs has no slots at all. If the register button is missing, the pair is not at hatched yet or every hatched egg already has its chick.

An admin is a member with two extra jobs: deciding who gets in, and setting what the club's name and badge look like on every certificate the club prints.

• Approve, reject or suspend membership requests from the Members page. A rejection carries a reason the member can read.
• Set the club's name, location, badge and the lines that print under it on a certificate.
• An admin is a member too, with their own loft and their own birds. The two roles do not get in each other's way.
• An admin cannot see inside another member's loft. The role grants club-level settings, not access to anyone's records.

Every message the platform can show you is listed here with what it means and what to do about it. The code is the part that never changes between versions, so it is the thing worth searching for.

Some of these words stay English inside a Bangla sentence, because that is how fanciers actually say them at the clubhouse. Both columns are here so either habit reads.

Ring number⇄রিং নম্বরEnglish / Bangla

The bird's identifier, stamped on its ring.

Loft⇄লফটEnglish / Bangla

Your whole collection of birds and records.

Pedigree⇄বংশতালিকাEnglish / Bangla

The family tree, four generations on a printed card.

Sire⇄বাবা পায়রাEnglish / Bangla

The father. Must be a cock.

Dam⇄মা পায়রাEnglish / Bangla

The mother. Must be a hen.

Cock⇄নরEnglish / Bangla

A male bird — sex M.

Hen⇄মাদিEnglish / Bangla

A female bird — sex F.

Strain⇄রক্তধারাEnglish / Bangla

The bloodline a bird comes from.

Eye sign⇄চোখের চিহ্নEnglish / Bangla

The colour and pattern of the eye, judged by hand.

Velocity⇄গতিEnglish / Bangla

Metres per minute — how fast the bird came home.

Basket⇄ঝুড়িEnglish / Bangla

To send a bird to a race — "basketed" means entered.

Clutch⇄এক দফার ডিমEnglish / Bangla

The eggs a pair lays in one round.

Round⇄রাউন্ডEnglish / Bangla

Which clutch of the season this is — first, second, third.

Ancestor record⇄শুধু গাছের পাখিEnglish / Bangla

A bird that exists only in a pedigree, not in your loft.

Loft bird⇄নিজের পাখিEnglish / Bangla

A bird you physically keep. This is what "N pigeons" counts.

Producer⇄বাচ্চাদাতা পাখিEnglish / Bangla

A bird judged by what its children do, not by what it did.

Share link⇄শেয়ার লিংকEnglish / Bangla

A public address for one bird's pedigree. Revocable.

Certificate⇄সনদEnglish / Bangla

The printable A4 pedigree card with a QR code.