How do I record joinings?

How do I record joinings?

An event is one of several predefined activities that may be performed on a single animal or group of animals e.g. joining. The list of possible events may be seen by selecting an animal on the listing of current animals and clicking on the "Events" button.

For single sire bulk joining (i.e. one bull for a group of cows):

• Select the cows that you want to join from the current animal listing.

Selecting a group of animals:

• A dark green background means that you have selected the animal/s.
• You may select animals in a contiguous group by clicking on the first animal in the group, holding down the Shift key and then click on the last animal in the group. All animals between and including those two animals will be selected.
• Individual animals may be selected or deseleted by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on the animal. This is used if animals who wish to select that do not fall in contiguous order. OR
• By clicking on the Filter button you can also select animals. Animals may be chosen by specifying any combination of criteria (eg. pedigree, mob, group, paddock, property etc.). The more selection criteria, the tighter the selection.
• Click on the Events button.

• Click on Joinings [Bulk] to select.
• Click OK button.

Select the Joinings (bulk) event from the event list.

 In the Joining Event window, you may enter the following details:

Select Type (of mating):

• Natural (or paddock mating):
  • In this case your need to select Bull In (i.e. sire entering the paddock).
  • Date (of event) in dd/mm/yyy format, or pick a date from the calender.
  • Select the Sire from drop-down list.
  • Enter a Ref. - reference number.
  • Enter a Mgt. Grp. - Management Group. (i.e. a group of animals run under the same environmental conditions.)
  • Enter a Herd identifier.
  • Enter a Comment.

• AI:
  • Click on Select AI Type button, to select the type of AI procedure.
  • Select Practioner from the drop-down contacts list or click on plus [+] button to add a new practioner.
  • Date (of event) in dd/mm/yyy format, or pick a date from the calender.
  • Select the Sire from the drop-down list.
  • Select the Batch No. already on file for the entered sire.
  • Enter a Ref. - reference number.
  • Enter Total No. of Straws Used. This is for all Females joined, not each one. This number will be checked against the semen inventory for the nominated sire. If there are insufficient straws remaining, you will be notified and given the option to alter the number used. If you proceed with the joining, remaining stocks on the inventory will be reduced by the number used (or to zero if insufficient were available).
  • Enter a Mgt. Grp. - Management Group. (i.e. a group of animals run under the same environmental conditions.)
  • Enter a Herd identifier.
  • Enter the total Labour Costs $ for the joining procedure. 
  • Enter a Comment.

Note: Semen inventory can be added to Stockbook via the Utility > Semen Inventory menu option.

• Hand Mate:
  • Select Practioner from the drop-down contacts list or click on plus [+] button to add a new practioner.
  • Enter same information as natural mating.
  • Hand Mate is a procedure used for joining pedigree horses.

Planned Joining Only

At any time if you would like the animals status not to change, as this joinings is a planned event you must ensue that your have ticked the Planned Joining only box.

• Click on OK to complete the procedure or click on Cancel/Exit to abort the event. This will set the status of all selected females to:
• Joined - if currently not PTIC or suckling her young.
• Wet/Joined - if currently "Wet"

• For an embryo implant, a 'date due' will be calculated for each Female implanted, based on date of implantation + average gestation period defined  - 7 days (age of embryo).