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Adding animals as a batch

How to record animal purchases and "on" movements to your holding as a batch

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Written by Will Rands
Updated over a week ago

There are several ways to enter purchased animals into your FarmWizard herd account as a batch.  

Scanning the bar code on the cattle passports

The quickest and most accurate method is to use a bar code reader to scan the bar code at the bottom on the cattle passport document. This bar code contains the following information:

  • Government ear tag number

  • Sex

  • Date of birth

  • Breed

 To scan a batch of passports into your FarmWizard account, proceed as follows

  1. Group the passport documents by supplier and arrival date.  This will form a single scanning batch

  2. If your FarmWizard account has more than one herd, change to the required herd via Herd Manager > Change Herd

  3. Go to Herd Manager > BCMS Interface > Scan Passports

  4. Check that the Movement Type is set to "On"

  5. Select the source premises that the animals originated from.  If the premises name is not in the list, select "Other, enter value >" in the drop down and type the new name into the text box to the right

  6. If you want to record additional animal details, tick Record Price/Weight/Sire and optionally enter default values for Batch Number (for your own internal farm system), Haulage Cost and Price.  These default values will be applied to each animal record in the purchase details grid. 

  7. Set the Movement Date as the date that the animals moved onto your holding

  8. If you want to notify the movements to the Government database, tick the Record with BCMS check-box

  9. Click your mouse pointer within the Scanned Animals text box so that the cursor is flashing

  10. Scan the bar code shown at the bottom left of each BCMS passport document. This barcode contains the animal's Ear Tag, Date of birth, Sex and Breed
    The detail from each passport will display as a single line within the text box. You can scan up to 100 passports in one batch

  11. Click the the Record Movement button. If have ticked the box to record additional animal details, a data grid will display with one row for each animal scanned (shown below).  
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    The available details are management tag number (FB), Sire name, Price, Weight, Entry Grade, an internal farm Batch Number and Haulage Cost (use the default value set in Step 5)
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    ​Note: these details can be entered or amended later if required

  12. If you do not tick the box to record additional animal details, the new animal tags will be directly saved to your FarmWizard Herd Register

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