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As many of you know, im fairly new to the cattle world (also pigs lol). I have 5 cows now, 1 jersey steer (raising for a friend who grew up on jersey meat), 3 simmentals, 1 red angus, and 1 simmi/angus steer. I can fairly easily remember who had what and when, but we are hoping to purchase more cattle throughout the summer, and im looking for cattle records. What does everyone use to keep track of there records. Ya know, worming, breedings ect.
 
Oops, thats 6 cows. Anyways, i forgot to ask about vacciantion protocal. What brands ect does everyone use and at what age? There are no cows around me, and im not taking my cows to any shows, but will be bringing a friends cow to some shows this summer. There has been rabies near me though.
 
VtMapleGal":38wia361 said:
Oops, thats 6 cows. Anyways, i forgot to ask about vacciantion protocal. What brands ect does everyone use and at what age? There are no cows around me, and im not taking my cows to any shows, but will be bringing a friends cow to some shows this summer. There has been rabies near me though.
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as for as the vaccs the cattle need id talk to your local vet,because he knows what vaccs your cows will need.as for record keeping you can keep cattle records on paper or a computer program.i use cattlemax for reg cattle.an its very expensive.now there are cattle programs thats cheaper an for comm cattle.
 
I have a note book that I keep up with calving dates for each cow ans well as breding dates and weaning data.
I also have a index card for each head and note all shots and such on that card.
 
You can set up a simple spreadsheet on EXCEL. Make columns for the herd # or ear tab, Date of Birth, price you paid, type of vaccination, breeding dates if you are going to breed cattle, weigh dates if you plan to track average daily gain, whatever information you think is important on your animals.
 
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Each of my cows has a "Beef Cow Record Card". These cards were given to me many years ago from a friend/mentor. I have no idea where he got them. (He gave me about 100 of them) The top section is info all about the cow, purchase price, date she entered and left the herd, etc. Then it has sub-sections for her calving info, up to 8 calves. Heat dates, breeding dates, birth dates and weights weaning weights etc. Then a final section for health record info, vaccines, de-worm, illness, treatments etc. They are very handy. I guess they are much like a paper version of various software programs. In addition to these, I also keep a note-sheet with a list of the animal numbers. This is all kept in a 3 ring binder. Any records or info that came with purchased cows is stapled to her cow-card.

It all sounds very complicated and time consuming, but once you get a system worked out, its not very time consuming at all and well worth the time it takes.

Katherine
 
I have an individual record sheet for every cow in the herd. It has all her data on it, plus space for each calf she has. I made these up myself, but they sound similar to what Workinonit has. Just no space for treatments and so on. In addition, I keep a calving booklet, and a breeding booklet, I also have all this in a computer program called Ranch Manager. It is a fairly reasonably priced program and I find that it covers pretty much anything I could possibly need for record keeping.
 
Or, you might try the Nebraska Sandhills Ranches record cards. At this web site there are 3 files listed:
(1) Nebraska Beef Cow Record Card, EC266
(2) Nebraska Beef Sire Summary Card, EC267, and
(3) Nebraska Beef Weaning-Yearling Worksheet, EC268

What I did was print 1 copy of each, then I took those printouts to my local favorite copy store and had them copy a bunch on heavy card stock and reduced the size by half (i.e. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" - think of a paper folded in half). Then punch holes in them and put them in a notebook. Works for me ...

--Marc
 
We use PC Dart which is actually a DHIA program for use with dairy cattle. The program itself can accomodate much more information that we can accumulate with beef cattle but is still good for maintaining health and reproductive records, etc.
 
My mother is our record keeper and she is an organized lady! We have the main cow book. This is a binder that has "everything cow". In the binder is (I am sure I will miss something):
Gestation table, conversion calculators for colostrum and milk, vet recommended treatments for different illnesses, breeding dates, hay costs and amounts used, phone numbers of anyone we have dealt with having to do with cattle, vaccinations given and indvidual cow sheets.
The cow sheets include the following information:
Age, colour and any physical features (brands, horns, etc), Tag number (and or name), CCIA number, DOB (if known), breed, sire and dam (if our breeding). Under this is listed years. Each year tells what the cow has done. So it will tell calf, sex, number, dob, ccia tag of calf, disposition of cow while tagging (ranked Hard to Excellent), any health issues, odd calving habits, basically anything that we may want to know in the future.
Then we have the CCIA (RFID) book. This is a scribbler that has ever CCIA/RFID tag we have or do own. The numbers are listed numerically. Beside each number there is space to list: ear tag number, kept or sold and date, DOB, sire, dam.
Then last of all each of our purebred cows have their own scribbler that has all of the information for each of their calves that the CAA requires.

Our books did come in handy. I was audited last year for RFID tags. The guy came out I showed him Mom's books and he was impressed. She asked if there was any information she was missing, he looked at her like she'd lost her mind! :lol2:
 

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