Livestock
Farms, herds, treatments, withdrawal dates and VFDs.
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Livestock
- Set up farm clients, operations and premisesEvery livestock record hangs off three things: the farm client (the person or business you bill), the operation (a production unit that client runs, like a dairy or a feedlot) a…
- Manage animal lotsA lot is a group of animals you manage and treat as one unit, such as a pen of feeder steers, identified by a USDA group/lot identification number (GIN) rather than by individua…
- Run a preg check at the chuteA preg-check session records a chute-side run at one operation: every animal's outcome, its breeding cycle and body condition, then a report you can hand the producer before you…
- Build and apply herd-health protocolsA herd-health protocol is a reusable vaccination or treatment program, like "fall-born calves: first vaccine at weaning, booster 21 days later". You build it once as a template,…
- Record a treatment authorizationA treatment authorization records standing permission to treat from whoever has legal authority over an operation's animals. It covers the common case where a feedlot manager or…
- Set up a herd health contractA herd health contract records an ongoing retainer or consulting arrangement that covers a whole operation, rather than one visit. From the contract you can generate each period…
- Write a veterinary feed directiveA veterinary feed directive (VFD) is a vet's written authorization for a medically important antimicrobial given in feed. Vivetra records the directive and lets you print it. It…
- Read the antibiotic use reportThe antibiotic use report shows how much antimicrobial your practice's livestock clients used, as milligrams of active ingredient per population correction unit (mg/PCU). Use it…
- Plan a livestock farm callA farm call is one stop at a premises: the date, the attending vet and a single travel fee. The visits for the animals you see there are grouped under it, so the travel fee is c…
- Bill a farm clientLivestock invoices bill one farm client for one operation. You create a draft, add line items, then take payment or mark it paid. Invoices can also be started from a herd health…
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- Print and send a preg-check reportThe pregnancy-check report is the desk copy of a preg-check session: the same report the producer was handed at the chute, for the practice's file, for printing, and for sending…
- Put a lot under a quarantine holdA quarantine hold records that a whole lot is under a regulatory disease hold, such as a TB reactor herd, a brucellosis trace or an HPAI order, and who you reported it to. Vivet…
- Record a breeding soundness examA breeding soundness evaluation (BSE) records a bull's exam: scrotal circumference, sperm motility and morphology, physical findings and your classification. Vivetra records the…
- Record a group treatmentEach lot has a group-treatment ledger: a permanent record of every drug given to the pen, or to one animal pulled from it, with its withdrawal date. The ledger feeds the lot's w…
- Record disease tests and movement certificatesFor an individually tracked animal you can record brucellosis, TB and trichomoniasis tests, keep the herd's routine TB schedule, and issue a movement certificate. Vivetra keeps…
- Track an individual animalSome animals are worth tracking one by one: a herd bull, a show heifer, a sick steer pulled from a pen. These are individual (Tier 1) animals. Each has a normal patient record p…