We’ve released two highly-requested features: The ability to automatically kids to the herd when adding a Kidding event, and the ability to link kids to their herd animal records.
Automatically adding kids when adding a Kidding event
When you have set your preference to automatically add kids to your herd when they are added to a does’ Kidding event, a herd record will be created for every kid added to when the “Kidding” and “Pregnancy terminated early” Outcomes are selected.
In addition to creating a herd record for the kid, the following information will be set in the herd animal record:
• The animal’s Name and Barn/Nickname (if indicated), otherwise the system will create a Name and Barn/Nickname
• Notes added in the kid record will be added to the Notes section of the animal’s herd record
• A birth weight event will be added to the herd animal record’s Health page when a birth weight is indicated and the user is a Performance Plan subscriber
• Pedigrees will be automatically built based on the dam and sire info in the breeding record
• The kids will display in the dam and sire’s progeny lists, regardless of birth status
• Any other Profile information added to the Add Kid form
• The Source will be set as “Born in my Herd”
See it in action:
Linking existing herd animals to the kid record in the Kidding event
You can link existing herd animals with the Source “Born in my herd” and non-herd members such as pedigree animals to a Kid record in a Kidding event.
Linking the herd animal record with the kid record in the Kidding event creates a quick link to the herd animal record, and updates the following information in the herd animal record:
• The animal’s Date of Birth is updated to the Kidding Date
• The animal’s gender is set to the gender in the Kid Record
• The animal’s Dam is set to the Dam associated with the Kidding record
• The animal’s Sire is set to the Sire associated with the Kidding record
• The animal’s conception type will be updated to that in the Kidding record