Animal Husbandry
Animal Husbandry
New menu livestock settings contains all settings, directly related to settings in livestock. It is divided in tabs where each tab contains specific settings.
General
Contains general settings. In this section you can set default item types and item categories (read-only if record with this item type already exists in the database), default documents, depreciation settings, animal ownership visibility, default cost center group and number of knees in family tree.
| Animal ownership |
By selecting this option user sets visibility of fields about animal ownership on animal record. Information will be visible in movement tab
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Health
Contains settings, related with veterinary data in Farming.
| Default warehouse for medicine |
Setting of default warehouse for medicine. Setting is used in case when user doesn't want to trace stock for medicine. |
| Document for medicine issuing |
User sets default document that will be used to issue medicine on animal record. |
| Treatment |
Service used when treatment service document is created. |
| Insemination |
Service used when insemination service document is created. |
Milk
First panel contains settings for structure of files from milking robots. In this grid variables are defined for each column in files that you export from milking robots. If column order in files are different, you can change this in this grid. Only machines in source column are currently supported. Ordinary Excel file is also supported so you can prepare Excel with data by yourself and import them through import functionality.
Lower panels contain settings, related to milking.
| Item for cow milk |
Default item used to add cow milk on stock through milking diary. |
| Item for sheep milk |
Default item used to add sheep milk on stock through milking diary. |
| Item for goat milk |
Default item used to add goat milk on stock through milking diary. |
| Item for milking task |
Default item for milking task on milking diary. |
| Default warehouse for milk |
Default warehouse where milk is put on stock through milking diary. |
| Milk control type |
Type of milk control used on animal record to calculated standard and whole lactation values. |
Reproduction
Reproduction section contains settings for default tasks for reproduction. Without these settings new animal record or reproduction event cannot be inserted.
| Insemination |
Default item used to plan insemination task. |
| Pregnancy check - manual |
Default item used to plan manual pregnancy check. |
| Pregnancy check - Ultrasound |
Default item used to plan pregnancy check with ultrasound. |
| Dry-off |
Default item used to plan dry-off task. |
| Birth |
Default item used to plan birth task. |
| Sire semen default item |
Default item used to create document with used sire semen. List filters items only on those, that have serial number tracking set to K. |
| Sire semen default warehouse |
Default warehouse from which sire semen is issued. |
| Manage stock for Sire semen |
Checkbox that determines if stock is managed for sire semen. |
Feeding
Contains settings, related to feeding.
| Show animals on feeding |
User sets either feeding by animal location or by feeding group. Feeding by location is done based on groups, which animal is in. For feeding by feeding groups, groups first have to be created in Feeding groups.
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| Item type for meal |
Item type that will be set on meal, when meal is added to items. |
| VAT for meal |
VAT that will be set on meal, when meal is added to items. |
| UM for meal |
UM that will be set on meal, when meal is added to items. |
Egg production
This section contains detailed settings for egg production.
In this panel user sets default information for egg. Radio buttons Sorted/Unsorted are used in egg collecting. With this user sets if he wants to collect eggs sorted in categories (XL, L, M, S) or just unsorted. Warehouse setting is used to determine default warehouse for eggs. This warehouse is set default in egg collecting and packing module, but user can always change directly at eggs collecting and packing. Item for packed eggs is default item type for egg packages. This item type is filter to show packed eggs on egg packing. Receiving document and shrinkage document are settings for default document for egg receiving on stock and recording of shrinkage. Eggs best before is setting for best before period for eggs.
In lower panel user sets default items for type of eggs. These types are used at egg packing and collecting sorted eggs. Type of eggs, Min. weight and Max. Weight are read-only values, user just needs to select items for defined types.
Grazing
grazing settings are used to prepare forage setting to calculate expected forage intake form individual pasture. In this section we insert how much forage will individual animal type eat on daily basis. Each combination is unique so we can insert each FADN type only once (except dairy cows with dried-off checkbox).
| Animal type |
FADN code. Codes have to be added to FADN codebook. |
| FADN |
FADN type name. Value is selected automatically from selected FADN code. |
| Dried-off |
Checkbox that selects dried off dairy cows. |
| Average weight |
Average weight of animal with selected FADN type. |
| Forage intake (% of bodyweight) |
Forage intake as % of bodyweight. We can select value from inserted codebook. |
| Forage intake (kg) |
Calculated automatically from animal weight and % of forage intake. |
| Grazing efficiency (%) |
% of grazing efficiency (how muc animal actually eats). |
Normatives
Panel for normatives contains values for parameters for different animal types. These values can either be used in different analysis or to autocomplete some of data in some forms.
Currently supported animal types and values are:
Cattle, milk where you can define normatives for milk quantity and quality by lactation.
Cattle, meat where you can define animal growth in grams per day
Poultry, eggs where you can define Body weight, feed consumption, rate of lay, egg weight and % of eggs of different categories
File import settings
File import settings form is used to create template for data import. These templates are then used at individual form for data import. Template creator supports .xls, .xlsx, .csv and .txt files. The latter can have tab, semicolon or vertical bar (pipe) as delimiter. Each category can have multipe templates and for each category one default template is added as system template. Such templated cannot be deleted or edited. Below name and desctription there are two panels: Template designer which is an actual link between file structure and fields in Pantheon and Available template fields which contains list of fields for which you can import data. Each template has to be unique and each template field can appear only once in template designer (file cannot have two columns named Animal ID). If column names in Excel and names of fields in template fields list are the same, link will be established automatically.
