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Herd
Management II
Herd
Information Manager HIM
Herd Management I - Managing your Herd
Dealing with routine and repetitive tasks
HerdLogic™ allows you to view and print tasks that you have scheduled to perform.
Whenever you specify a "next date" for any of the following
entries, the task will be automatically added to the "Tasks To
Do" list in the HIM:
- Routine "Medical/Health" procedure administered to a single animal or a group of animals.
- Weight, height, or body score entry for a single animal or a group of animals.
- Entering a "positive" pregnancy test for a bred female, or flagging a female animal as pregnant. Once the status of a female animal is set to pregnant, she will automatically be placed on the "Due dates listing".
A task will
remain on the "To Do" list, until the same "Medical
- Health" procedure is performed on any date past the last date
this procedure was performed. This means that if you decide to perform
a planned procedure ahead of schedule, the task will automatically be
removed from the "To Do" list. If you specified a next date
when you performed the procedure ahead of schedule, the new task will
be added to the "To Do" list for the proper calendar date.
Any overdue task will remain on the list for 6 months, after which time
it is automatically removed from the list. When an animal dies, all outstanding
tasks are automatically removed. If the animal was part of a group, it
will also be removed from the group.
When you sell an animal, you have the option to remove outstanding tasks. This feature is very useful when you sell an animal, but the new owner will not transfer the animal to his or her own place for a while. This allows you to carry on with the routine care and maintenance of the animal.
| The daily view of the Herd Information Manager (HIM) gives you a quick overview of the daily tasks at hand. If you assigned a task to a single animal, the name of the animal and the task will be listed. If you assigned the same task to a group of animals, the daily view will list a group code, the number of animals in the group, and the task to be performed. |  Click image for full size |
When you select the daily view for Thursday, August 30, 2001, you will see an entry for de-worming a group of 10 animals with "Ivermectin". Clicking the group entry will list the names and sex of all animals in the group. Listing animals in a group is only available from the daily and weekly views in the Herd Information Manager.
Expected due dates for pregnant females are listed in all views. The entry in each view lists the name of the female, the date of the last service and the name of the service sire.
‡Note: HerdLogic™ will use the short date format specified on your PC. "2001/08/30", "8/30/2001", "2001.08.30", "30-08-2001", "01/30/8", etc. are some examples. The selected Windows® setting will be used in all reports.
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The weekly view of the Herd Information Manager (HIM) gives you a quick overview of the tasks at hand for the selected week. The manners in which the tasks for a single animal and a group of animals are presented are similar to the way they are presented in the daily view. Clicking on an entry for a group, will list the name and sex of the animals in the group. |
| The monthly view of the Herd Information Manager (HIM) gives you a quick overview of the tasks at hand for the selected month. This view is also very useful for seeing if any tasks were missed, or postponed. HerdLogic™ will list "over due" tasks for 6 months, at which time they are removed from the Herd Information Manager. |  Click image for full size |
Reporting from the Herd Information Manager
The Herd Information Manager (HIM) allows you to produce two types of reports. The first report is a "To Do" task list; the second report is a list of Expected Due Dates for pregnant females.
Due date report for pregnant females
HerdLogic™ provides you with several options to print a due date report for
pregnant females. One of the options is to directly print a report from
the Herd Information Manager (HIM). You can print the due dates for females
for any selected time frame. You can optionally include any females that
are overdue.
View a sample report in
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To Do list of tasks for a specified period
HerdLogic™ provides you with several option to print a To Do list, which is a list of outstanding items. This list can only be printed from the Herd Information Manager (HIM). Depending on the "View", either daily, weekly, or monthly, HerdLogic™ provides you with the following "quick" selections:
- Daily view: The day selected in the calendar, and include tomorrow,
- Weekly view: The week selected in the calendar, and include next week.
- Monthly view: The month selected in the calendar, and include next month.
- All views: Includes overdue tasks. (Note: overdue tasks will be automatically removed from the Herd Information Manager views after six month).
In addition
to the "quick" selections, HerdLogic™, provides
the following "standard" date ranges:
Today,
this week, this month, this quarter, tomorrow, next week, next month,
next quarter.
You can also select a custom date range by specifying your start and end
dates.
You can print
the due dates for any selected time frame. You can optionally include
any females that are overdue.
View a sample report in
adobe® Acrobat format.
