Suckler Herd Records (Excel)

[flyonthewall]

Taking over more of the cattle management from my mother who can't keep up with the number of calves being born these days! I've got around 130 sucklers and want to record age, calvings etc and then compute on and off records. I've started by logging into BCMS for the first time, downloading the current herd csv file into excel and then pulling off the on/off records from here (only does 60) and then by going through the herd book. Does anybody have an excel template they can send me to save me work and improve what I'm doing? Being a tight arsed farmer I don't want to pay £400/yr for cattle plan!

 

[Hesstondriver]

we use excel , one tip that may help - put your herd mark in one column , and split your ear mark in to a column for the check number (the first one) and another for the rest of the ear mark :

Herd mark	check sequence	ear mark
UK123456	1​	00987
UK123456	2​	00988

this allows you to use the sort function for the animals

 

[Breedr]

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