Go to Animals | Add Animal and a new window will pop up

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On the left-hand side of the window we see the options to enter the animal’s data.

1. Breeding Group - The Breed of the animal (if using more than one breed in the database).

2. Animal Tag - The Animal tag (ear tag or management tag you are using for it). Your Society ID & Tattoo are generated from this.

3. Electronic ID - The EID of a NLIS/CCIA/NAIT ear taghand.

4. National ID - The number written on the outside of an electronic tag.

5. Default ID – Only used as ID by old Brahman animals.

6. Society ID – The unique society ident for this animal.

7. Prefix – First part of an animal name; Eg: If all your animals are named like [Property/stud name] [Animal Name] ie: Saltbush Elizabeth J122, then Saltbush would be the prefix.

8. Suffix – The actual name of the individual animal.

9. Sex – Sex of the animal.

10. DOB – Date of birth.

11. Birth year – Should be autocalculated according to the rules setup in Site options.

12. Sire & Dam – The sire or dam of the animal if recorded in HerdMASTER.

13. Hold Sire / Hold Dam - checkboxes indicate that the sire and/or dam should remain for the next animal entry

14. Owner – The contact code of the current owner of the animal.

15. Breeder – The contact code for the breeder of the animal.

16. Rearer – The rearer of the animal (if different to Owner or Breeder, not usually used)

17. Trait Group – You may create a group of animals with common traits, does not export to BREEDPLAN or societies.

18. Active Animal – Is the animal alive or dead?

1. Animals Location - The location (paddock & property) of the animal.

2. Reset to Defaults - Reset the whole page to the defaults set in site options.

3. Previous Tag - The previous animal tag entered (note, will only appear after you have entered the first animal)

4. Next Tag - The next tag predicted. Predictions will be based on your site settings

5. Next Animal - Save this animal and move onto a new animal’s details.

6. Save and Finish - Save this animal and close out of the window.

7. Use TagBucket – If the animal tag entered is the same as the suggested tag for an unassigned electronic tag in your tagbucket it will insert the electronic tag and national id automatically. See “Tag Buckets”

The bottom of the right-hand side of the window is broken up into three tabs, Additional Information, Purchase Information and Worksheets.

This tab is for additional, society based information, and may not be available to commercial version users.

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• Right Tattoo – This is the code sent to the society to register your animal, ie: J119 or J0119

• Classification – The classification code for the animal if used by your society. (please contact your society for a list of codes if they use them)

• Group Code 1 to 4 – If you are using group codes for your animals you may set them on the animal here.

• Rego Status & Rego Date – The rego status and date registered of the animal with your society, this is used to calf-register animals that will not be society animals etc. Please see you society for a list of their valid rego codes.

• By AI, By ET, IVF – If the animal was bred by AI, embryo or IVF.

• Red Carrier – Is the animal a carrier of red genes.

• Hold Cert – “Hold” the registration certificate.

• Implant Date – Date of Embryo implantation.

• Breed Code – This should auto-populate if the dam and sire have valid breed codes.

• AI Cert & ET Cert – The AI or Embryo certificate number if the animal has one.

• Brand Code – If you use more than one brand, choose the brand number on the animal here.

• Fate & Fate Date – The Fate code and date of the animal if it has been fated already.

• Colour – Colour of the animal.

• Horn Status – Horn status code for your society

• Grade – If the animal has a grade you may enter it here.

• Foster Dam – If the animal was fostered onto a different dam.

• Recip Dam – The recip for an Embryo bred animal.

This tab means you can enter a purchase when the animal is saved. The checkbox at the top, Animal was purchased must be checked to use this feature.

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• Purchase date can be either the date of purchase or the received date

• Price is the total price of the animal.

• Payment made – Have you paid the seller yet?

• Transporter – a contact from your contacts list that transported the animal.

• Transfer Status – For your own records on where the animal is at the moment.

• Old ID – The old animal tag of the animal before arriving on your property.

• Seller- the contact from your contacts list that sold the animal to you.

• Agent – The agent that handled the sale.

• Venue – You may enter the venue that the sale took place.

• Vehicle Rego – registration of the transporting vehicle.

• Vendor Dec – the Vendor declaration number for the transport of the animal.

• HGP Free – Is the animal HGP free?

This tab displays the current worksheets an animal is in and allows you to create new ones or add it to other existing worksheets.

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The arrows in the middle will move a highlighted worksheet onto or off the Animal’s worksheets list.

To add a new worksheet simply enter the new name and hit Add New.

On the window you are required to have the following:

1. A unique Animal Tag.

2. A Date of Birth

The recommended level of additional (to the above) detail is as following:

1. A valid Sex.

2. Owner and Breeder set.

3. Sire and Dam if known.

4. A valid Society ID and Right Tattoo.

All other data entry is up to the individual user and the level of detail required.

On the window that follows I have created a simple animal (with tag U026), to add this animal to the database I would just need to hit either Save and finish or Next animal (if I were going to add more animals after this one).

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My society ID, Tattoo, Suffix, and Breed Code all auto-generated once my Owner, Breeder and Animal tag were set.