Use of Computer in Animal Farm

2.3 Goat Manager 007

The Goat 007 is a powerful productivity tool for improving profitability at your Goat operation. No limit to herd size, for small herds or unlimited size large herds. Easy to use, yet maintains complete and accurate records. Full picture pedigree charts. Many time saving features; medicate, wean or breed one animal and apply to entire herd. Comprehensive set of reports for Livestock Inventory, Sales, Animal Health, Pasture Management, Equipment and Finances. Use the Goat 007 to improve your herd. Reports identify the most productive breeding stock.

By consistently recording health and performance information, you are able to make comparisons, rank animals and correlate management practices to expenses and prices received. Document and be compensated with a higher sale price for the livestock health practices that you use. Enter a treatment for just one animal and copy the same to the entire herd or selected animals.

3. CATTLE RANCH

3.1 CattleMax cattle software

With over 8,000 ranches in all 50 U.S. states and over 70 countries, CattleMax is the leading software choice for cow-calf ranches. From basic record keeping needs to registered cattle ranches maintaining weights, performance records and more, CattleMax is flexible for herds of all sizes. With ranches as few as 10 cows to some of the largest cattle operations in existence (with over 10,000 cows), CattleMax is known as the complete and easy-to-use solution for cattle producers. CattleMax Online can be used on all computers and devices via an Internet connection, including iPhones, iPads, Androids, Mac computers, and more.

3.2 Cattle Scales Store

The Cattle Scales store is the only online store dedicated to cattle weighing. Weighing is one of the three components of a complete cattle management solution, which also consists of a records system and an identification system. Since CattleMax integrates with many weigh scales, we are often asked for our recommendation and the answer is always “it depends on your operation.” To help you answer this question, we have created a “Guide to Buying Cattle Scales” that helps you identify the three key questions to answer before selecting the right indicator, load bars, and platform for your operation. Partnering with Tru-Test, the leading cattle weigh scale manufacturer, ensures a beneficial integration of cattle weigh scales with the CattleMax herd management software.

3.3 Agridata Software

an easy to use computer program that will make your livestock recording chores much simpler - saving you both time and money. Agridata is a computer program which provides you with the simplest and most comprehensive way to keep your livestock records.

The program is suitable for beef, dairy and sheep enterprises, no matter what the size. This program provides a complete recording system for every aspect of your livestock business:

• Records details of stock from birth to slaughter and cross checks them with the BCMS
• Records all stock movements
• Records veterinary and medicine treatments
• Records feed delivered and feed fed
• Records field data including treatments, sprays and soil tests
• Includes Agridata traceability system for easy transfer of complete history between buyers and sellers of cattle
• Allows passport applications and movements to BCMS via e-mail and upload
• Meets FABBL / ABM standards
• Full EID link to Agrident APR500 data recorders
• Regular updates are available to reflect changes in regulations - maintaining the value of your investment
• Agridata provides invaluable management information - more than 60 reports available

Agridata is designed by professional programmers, of which many have agricultural backgrounds, with wide-ranging input from farmers. Our ability to provide you with the latest software, to reflect current rules and regulations, is second to none. We also recognise the fact that many customers of Agridata may also be novice computer users, so we strive to ensure its easy to use and accessible to all levels of expertise.

4. POULTRY FARM

4.1 Poultry management software

The poultry farm business is generally lucrative and if run properly, and complemented with a good poultry farming software, it offers great potential for its shareholders.  A poultry business can focus on egg production, chicken breeding, or meat production.

Poultry of course deals with chicken, which aside from pork, beef and fish counts as a staple in the diets of an average consumer in any household. Chicken is also very popular among fast-food chains because it cooks relatively faster. In fact, instead of outsourcing their chicken supply, many fast-food restaurants have their own poultry farms so they can maintain consistency in the quality of their chicken.

Setting up a poultry farm is easy, especially if you have land on hand. Procuring the chickens is the next step, as well as construction for the farm itself.  On a day-to-day basis, there are manpower and other operational issues like feeds, water, electricity.

Expanding and growing an already-existing poultry farm would be even more demanding, given the constraints posed by having different locations, varying levels of connectivity.

It must be noted, too, that unlike other business software solutions that deal with inanimate objects, a software for poultry business will have to take into consideration live animals.  This, the business relies on a high level of manual monitoring and observation.

In all these issues, whether for start-up or expansion, poultry management software, specialized software that is unlike general solutions, can do wonders. The most important aspect of the poultry business is the growing of livestock. Methods used must be those approved by regulators in the local and national levels.  There must be regular checks made by veterinarians because a single sick chicken may affect the production of the entire farm.

Indeed, poultry management software enhances operational capabilities and boosts transparency in the reporting process. There are the aspects of ot management, stock management, material traceability and transportation of feed, stocks and medicines among other things — all of which will be daunting to be handled without some sort of poultry farming software.

For poultry farms operating in developing countries, poor infrastructure may prevent companies from having their own lease lines and other privacy concerns may prevent them from using the public domain.

A good enterprise resource planning or ERP for poultry business may have provisions for localization, which allows a company to operate in various languages and dialects.

Having multiple farm locations also highlights the need for mobility and intra-company communications. For example, internet connectivity in the farm may not be as fast as it is in the urban areas. There may thus be a need for an offline module wherein employees can work, input data even when there is no internet connection.  And then, any incremental work may be synchronized as soon as connectivity is established.

A good software for poultry business enables members of the sales force to place purchases and transaction orders. 

Most importantly, a poultry management or livestock software must be user-friendly enough for the company’s employees to be comfortable in using it. Employees who may be used to certain reporting formats and methods may initially be reluctant to embrace an ERP for poultry business because they think it would be complicated and/ or cumbersome.  Thus, another challenge is to educate the employees and inform them that using poultry management software is not too difficult even for those who are not tech-savvy, and that the benefits to be derived from using it greatly outweigh the initial adjustments that have to be made.

The supply chain in a poultry business is extensive and complicated such that an ERP for the poultry business will greatly enhance efficiency and customer satisfaction, not to mention prevent costly delays and wastage.  Managers can use real time, accurate data and make decisions to grow the business, shift the focus when necessary all towards the goal of creating value for its shareholders.

4.2 Poultry Management Software

Successful poultry management is critical in ensuring the success of your chicken or turkey operation. When it comes to enabling better business decisions, we don’t believe that putting dedicated chicken or turkey producers in front of a computer or filing system for hours on end is the answer. That’s why our easy-to-use poultry management software allows you to focus on managing your birds the way you want to while we handle the IT side of things. Interested in traceability, web-based food safety program records, and easy data exchange? FeatherCentral has got you covered!

How FeatherCentral Can Help

At BIO, we wanted to provide chicken and turkey farmers the same comprehensive management benefits we offer cattle, sheep and goat producers. That’s why we partnered with Farms.com to create FeatherCentral, a unique web-based poultry management system. With FeatherCentral, you can implement a poultry management system that expands your abilities without adding expensive overhead. Poultry farms of all sizes use FeatherCentral for flock management, performance reports, secure storage of health records, traceability and complete data security.

CONCLUSION

With afore highlighted points above, application of computer in animal husbandry cannot be over emphasis as it cuts across all areas of animal farming (inventory management, barn monitoring, logistics, feed plans, market sales, health management, reporting, analyzing productivity and profitability, etc.).