Livestock
Read the antibiotic use report
In Vivetra: Livestock › Antibiotic Use Report
The 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 to track stewardship over time and spot the lots using the most.
It's worked out live from the group-treatment ledger and, across all lots, individual-animal prescriptions. Only your practice's own figures are shown; there's no national comparison.
Run the report
- Select Antibiotic Use Report in the Livestock menu.
- Set the From and To dates. It opens on the last 12 months.
- Leave Lot group on — All lots — for the whole practice, or choose one lot.
- Select Run report.
How it's calculated
- PCU = the lot's average weight (kg) × the head count treated.
- mg/PCU = total active ingredient (mg) ÷ total PCU (kg).
A treatment counts only if it has an active-ingredient amount, a head count treated, and a lot with an average weight. Anything missing one of those is shown as Incomplete inputs (excluded from PCU / mg) and left out. If nothing in range qualifies, mg/PCU shows as n/a. To fix that, add the average weight on the lot (see Manage animal lots) and the active ingredient and head count on each treatment (see Record a group treatment).
What the report shows
| Section | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Summary | mg/PCU for lot treatments, total mg, total PCU and the number of treatments. An arrow compares mg/PCU with the period of the same length just before. |
| Combined farm-level (Tier 1 + Tier 2) | Lot treatments and individual-animal prescriptions added together. Only shown for all lots, because a prescription isn't tied to a lot. |
| mg/PCU by lot | A bar for each lot with a figure. |
| Needs attention — highest antimicrobial usage | The five lots with the highest mg/PCU. |
| Per-lot breakdown | Every lot with treatments in the period, with its average weight, totals and incomplete count. |
A down arrow means less antimicrobial per PCU than the previous period.