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Livestock Recording News - November 2007
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November 2007
Welcome to Livestock Recording News, the customer newsletter delivering
news, tips, and information about Livestock Recording and its products.
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Demo Days
The last two Livestock Recording Demo Days for the year are scheduled for:
Friday 16 November 2007
Friday 7 December 2007
The Demo Days will be held at "Ebony Hills", Black Mountain NSW and will start at 10:00 am. If you would like help with your own hardware (such as a scale or NLIS tag reader) please remember to bring it on the day. Attendance is free but bookings are essential. To book a place or for further information please contact Livestock Recording:
Email: info@livestockrecording.com.au
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Tip of the Month!
Record an animal purchase
To record an animal purchase:
- Click Animals on the Main Menu.
- Click Purchases on the Sub Menu. This will open the Animal Purchase List screen.
- Click Add on the Active Menu. This will open the Add Purchase screen.
- Type the date the purchased animals arrived into the Arrival Date: box.
- Select the new PIC for the animals from the drop down list in the New PIC: box.
- Type the supplier's PIC into the Supplier's PIC: box.
- Type any other relevant information into the other boxes on this screen.
- Click the Save button. This will open the List of Animals included in the Purchase screen.
- To add animals that are already recorded in Livestock Recording, click Add Animals. To add animals that are not already recorded, click Add New Animals.
Note: For further details about adding an animal purchase see Job Card 2 Recording animal transfers, purchases, sales or inductions.
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Add/Edit Purchase sped up
Continued improvements have greatly sped up adding a new purchase record or editing the details of an existing purchase record. Purchase records contain all of the information relevant to the purchase of new animals, including the identifications of the purchased animals, NVD number, vendor, trucking details and more.
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Job Cards for routine tasks
If you need help with a routine recording task, check the Job Card list located on the website. To access the Job Card list click on the link "Step by Step Job Cards for Common Tasks" above where you click to enter Livestock Recording. Job Cards are routinely upgraded and new Job Cards are added as required.
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Recording calves
With calving finished for most spring calving herds, thoughts turn to recording the details for all the new calves. Recording calves is easy in Livestock Recording, particularly if the matings have already been recorded against each female during joining. If embryo transfer has been used the matings should have been recorded including the details of each recipient female.
Before beginning to enter new calf details it is a good idea to set up an animal group to enter the calves into. You may like to call this group Calves_07, or something similar.
Calves, or any new animals, are entered using the Add Animal screen which is reached by clicking Animals on the Main Menu then Animal List on the Sub Menu then Add on the Active Menu.
Type the details for the first calf into the relevant boxes on this screen. Make sure you enter the BIRTH DAM tag in the Dam Tag: box. If the calf is an embryo, this will be the Recipient Dam's tag. If the Recipient dam is entered, Livestock Recording will calculate the Donor Dam Tag from the Recipient Dam's mating records.
If you have already recorded matings, you do not need to enter anything into the Sire Tag: box as Livestock Recording will calculate this for you from the Dam's mating records.
When you have completed entering the relevant details for the first calf click Save. A box will come up saying Record Saved, click OK. On the screen now, you will be able to see the Donor Dam Tag (if relevant) and the Sire Tag that Livestock Recording calculated using the Mating Records you have previously entered.
You can enter the details for the next calf over the top of the details on the screen. You do not have to do anything to the data in the Sire Tag: box as Livestock Recording will calculate the correct sire from the mating details you have previously entered for the Dam. When you have finished entering the details for each calf, click Save.
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Job Card 13 Recording new animals has the step by step instructions necessary to add a new animal. Other Job Cards that may be helpful are Job Card 12 Recording matings and Job Card 14 Registering calves with Breed Society.
For further information on recording new animals please contact Livestock Recording:
Email: info@livestockrecording.com.au
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ProKollect PLUS at the "Ecca"
The Livestock Recording ProKollect data collection software, run on ProKollect PLUS, was used during the recent Brisbane Royal Show to record the weights and other details recorded for each of the cattle shown.
Mike Hemsley from Gallagher Australia provided the ProKollect PLUS unit for the cattle show and supervised the collection of all of the information needed on each of the show animals.
ProKollect PLUS in use in the field
The ProKollect PLUS unit, running the ProKollect software, is demonstrated at the Livestock Recording Demo Days held on the first and third Fridays mornings of each month. data collection software is also available to run on a PC or Pocket PC.
For further information about ProKollect PLUS or the ProKollect data collection software contact Gallaher Australia or:
Email: info@livestockrecording.com.au
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