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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1143762" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>I do most of it by eartag so that I don't have to rely on notes as much. The last digit in my eartag number is the last digit of the year she was born. The first three digits are her individual number and I start at 001 and we brand in small sets as the calves are of branding age so when I see a calves tagged 1013 and 0013 and they are the same size, I know that the first is the better calf without looking at records as by eartag age it's younger but the same size... I also can watch cows differently based on that number as I don't have to have paperwork in hand to tell me who my older cows are. Cows that come in from the sale(which is a large portion of the herd right now) get an X as the last number and if they fail they go back to the sale.</p><p>On paper, I use a spreadsheet for every property with a list of who is supposed to be where. I keep it simple and have columns for calving date, breeding dates(if I can catch them) and remarks. If she is an X cow then I will put my best guess for her age in the remarks column. I have a column for matching mother and calf but I don't use it unless I'm positive and I don't babysit them so I'm hesitant to use that column quite often unless I see something exciting.</p><p></p><p>That being said, my notes can usually go unwritten for quite a while. Don't ask me to remember my own birthday but I can remember 0111 calving like it was yesterday and I can tell you most of her pedigree and the calf's as well even though neither of them are all that special... I guess it's just a matter of what people devote their brains to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1143762, member: 14661"] I do most of it by eartag so that I don't have to rely on notes as much. The last digit in my eartag number is the last digit of the year she was born. The first three digits are her individual number and I start at 001 and we brand in small sets as the calves are of branding age so when I see a calves tagged 1013 and 0013 and they are the same size, I know that the first is the better calf without looking at records as by eartag age it's younger but the same size... I also can watch cows differently based on that number as I don't have to have paperwork in hand to tell me who my older cows are. Cows that come in from the sale(which is a large portion of the herd right now) get an X as the last number and if they fail they go back to the sale. On paper, I use a spreadsheet for every property with a list of who is supposed to be where. I keep it simple and have columns for calving date, breeding dates(if I can catch them) and remarks. If she is an X cow then I will put my best guess for her age in the remarks column. I have a column for matching mother and calf but I don't use it unless I'm positive and I don't babysit them so I'm hesitant to use that column quite often unless I see something exciting. That being said, my notes can usually go unwritten for quite a while. Don't ask me to remember my own birthday but I can remember 0111 calving like it was yesterday and I can tell you most of her pedigree and the calf's as well even though neither of them are all that special... I guess it's just a matter of what people devote their brains to. [/QUOTE]
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