Selection of Multiple Animals

There are times when you will wish to select a group of animals, either for medical treatment, selling, or as the basis of a report, etc.

In addition to the left hand tree view of beef stock catagories and sheep flock record groups, FarmIT 3000 also provides a simple graphic way to select animals - the 'Multiple Animal or Field Selection' screen allows you to achieve this.

An example would be selecting sheep for a report.

From the sheep menu select the 'Selected Animal Listing' option from the reports menu

The Multiple Animal Selection window is then displayed as follows.

The 'Available Animal Groups' list enables you to select only a group of the available animals for example only the Ewes, Rams, Lambs or created management groups.

The 'display with' option also allows you to display the animals using the farm management tag or electronic ID and select animals using the displayed number rather than the official ear tag number. If either of these options are chosen only animals that have a farm management or electronic ID will be displayed, if you have not set a farm tag for an animal it will not be displayed in the available listing.

You may further filter the available animals using the other filters for sex, breed, age, flock etc

You now select the animals from the available animals box on the left and transfer them to the selected animals box on the right.

To add all the animals simply click the add all button.

To remove them select the remove all button.

To add or remove an individual animal or group of animals first click on the animal to select it.

Then click the add button  to select the animals

Once you have selected the animals you require click the 'OK' button to continue.

Finally there are times when rather than search through the available animals and select the animal you require it is quicker to simply type in the ear tag number.

The 'Specify Animal' box allows you to do exactly that. Just type in the ear tag number and hit the enter key. FarmIT 3000 will automatically check that the ear tag number is valid and that the animal exists in the database and add it to the selected animal list, it then resets the box enabling you to enter the next ear tag number. It will prompt you to correct any ear tag number that is not found.

This enables you to specify animals extremely quickly once you can type!.

Enter the last few digets of the tag into the specify box...

Clicking the 'Add' button or pressing your enter key adds the animal to the list..

Finally click the 'OK' button to complete the selection and continue to the report or task.

Import Groups Button

The Import Group button allows us to import a list of animals from an EID reader. There are many ways to import a list of tags from an eid reader and this is explained on other pages. see EID readers.