online records

restive

Does anyone here keep a record of their individual cattle on the computer or online. I was thinking of photographing individual cattle along with their cards and keeping a record of thrive feed records etc.

Thanks for any replies.

munkus

Funny you should ask.

Created an excel workbook a month ago for this. Have every sucker cow's details, picture and sale value off all of her offspring (individual and total). It was unbelievable to see which cows were leaving the most, some are getting the bullet as a result of this. Killing thing about it is that the two mad bitched who would kill me at calving are miles ahead based on return. Mix of breeds but the top 3 are Sim/CH. Some big apes of cows have poor enough cattle. We usually finish them so you'd forget which animal belongs to which cow after 30 months.


Good trick for the pictures in excel is to have one column for tag number and enter the picture as a comment in the field. This way the pictures are hidden until you right click and show comment. Let me know if you want instructions on how to do this.

Upstream

That sounds like a good system, do you use the ICBF as well as this? Some useful info there too

munkus wrote: »

Funny you should ask.

Created an excel workbook a month ago for this. Have every sucker cow's details, picture and sale value off all of her offspring (individual and total). It was unbelievable to see which cows were leaving the most, some are getting the bullet as a result of this. Killing thing about it is that the two mad bitched who would kill me at calving are miles ahead based on return. Mix of breeds but the top 3 are Sim/CH. Some big apes of cows have poor enough cattle. We usually finish them so you'd forget which animal belongs to which cow after 30 months.


Good trick for the pictures in excel is to have one column for tag number and enter the picture as a comment in the field. This way the pictures are hidden until you right click and show comment. Let me know if you want instructions on how to do this.

munkus

Upstream wrote: »

That sounds like a good system, do you use the ICBF as well as this? Some useful info there too

Ya, got most of the data from the reports.

jfh

munkus wrote: »

Funny you should ask.

Created an excel workbook a month ago for this. Have every sucker cow's details, picture and sale value off all of her offspring (individual and total). It was unbelievable to see which cows were leaving the most, some are getting the bullet as a result of this. Killing thing about it is that the two mad bitched who would kill me at calving are miles ahead based on return. Mix of breeds but the top 3 are Sim/CH. Some big apes of cows have poor enough cattle. We usually finish them so you'd forget which animal belongs to which cow after 30 months.


Good trick for the pictures in excel is to have one column for tag number and enter the picture as a comment in the field. This way the pictures are hidden until you right click and show comment. Let me know if you want instructions on how to do this.

that's a neat trick with the excel picture in comment box.

towzer2010

munkus wrote: »

Funny you should ask.

Created an excel workbook a month ago for this. Have every sucker cow's details, picture and sale value off all of her offspring (individual and total). It was unbelievable to see which cows were leaving the most, some are getting the bullet as a result of this. Killing thing about it is that the two mad bitched who would kill me at calving are miles ahead based on return. Mix of breeds but the top 3 are Sim/CH. Some big apes of cows have poor enough cattle. We usually finish them so you'd forget which animal belongs to which cow after 30 months.


Good trick for the pictures in excel is to have one column for tag number and enter the picture as a comment in the field. This way the pictures are hidden until you right click and show comment. Let me know if you want instructions on how to do this.

I do the same thing but without the pics. That's a good idea.

I also keep the breeding year info on another tab. I have all the breeding data for the last 5 years since I set it up and its good for seeing what cow's are performing. This is available on icbf now but it wasn't when I started it. I find it really handy because I use all AI.

The headings are self explanatory. The possible column is the date they may have been in heat but were missed. The next due column is so that I can keep an eye for repeats and is the served column + 21 and the calving date is the served column + gestation length from the bulls data on icbf.

I also record if the cow needed assistance at calving and what sort.