Animals Home

The Animals Home page provides an overview of the current status of your livestock and quick access to record actives for your mobs.

Stock Pane
History Pane

As the image above shows, the page is divided into 2 main parts as described below - the Stock Pane and the History Pane

Stock Pane

In the left hand “Stock” pane of the page, the system displays a table of your active mobs. This provides a quick overview of the current status of your animals.

Column Definitions

ColumnDefinition
MobThe name of the mob. If a mob has any Draft activities recorded against it, the symbol will be displayed after the name
TallyThe number of animals in the mob currently
LocationThe paddock the mob is currently grazing
KindShows what kind of mob it is:
Contains individuals
Represents a group
Contains other mobs
CostThe per-animal value of all the inputs to the mob
See Actions below

Actions

The right-most column of the Action Pane provides an elipses (…) button which, which clicked, drops down to display a menu of actions you can take with a mob.

These are the available actions:

ActionDescriptionLinks to
ManageRecord an animal management activityAnimal Activity Dialog
Quick reconciliationQuickly record changes in stock numbers (only for Group managed mobs)Quick Reconciliation Dialog
ScheduleSchedule a task for you or your staff to perform on the mobScheduled Task Dialog
View AnimalsOpen the animal search page with the individuals in the mob selected (only for Individually managed mobs )Animal Search
ImportImport data for animals in the mobImport Data
ExportExport data from animals in the mobExport Data

History Pane

When a row in the Stock Pane is selected, the History Pane updates with a list of all the activities which have been recorded for a mob. This enables you to quickly view the history of the mob.

Clicking on a row in the History Pane will open the Record Animal Activity dialog so that you can edit the activity.

Column Definitions

ColumnDefinition
StatusDraft activities will display the symbol.
DateThe date the recorded activity occurred.
ActionThe activity type.
CommentThe comment field from the activity.
CostThe cost of the activity as recorded in the activity inputs.