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Fostering

 

Fostering

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Bottle-fed and fostered calves can be a record-keeping challenge!

Foster and bottle-fed calves might grow up to be keepers or culls. Record births and fostering as they happen in the calving shed - avoid losing critical pedigree information at your busiest time!

  Why record fostering?

Record fostering:

  • to preserve pedigree information for the calf
  • to credit birth dams for number of calves born
  • to credit foster dams for raising more calves.

Use a fostering report:

  • to look up birth and foster dams
  • group fostered calves for management reasons
  • to identify problem animals or genetic lines.
Calves in barn
 
 
 
Farmer's PC
Stock recorder
 
Cattle Procedures screen
 
Fostering screen
 
 
 
 

 Sample FarmWorks Classic Reports

Click on the links below to view a Fostering related report:

Image of a report

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