Incubation - Data Entry

The incubation field on most cards is straight forward, and should be typed in as it is written on the cards, but sometimes professionally printed cards have other methods for recording incubation.

Some cards may read

fresh; showing blood; small embryos; large embryos

in this case use the incubation that has been circled or underlined.

If check marks are being used, be mindful of punctuation, as this may change the meaning of the indicator mark.

Example 1:

________ fresh;_______ showing blood;____ x ____ small embryos;________ large embryos

OR

Example 2:

fresh ________; showing blood____ x ____; small embryos________; large embryos________

In example 1 the incubation would be "small embryos" and in example 2 the incubation would be "showing blood". Even though these two x's are on the line before small embryos, the semicolon separates the incubation and check-mark field in 2 distinct ways.