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Pastoral - Live Session Guide

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Understanding your own draft setup is the first step to creating live session templates that will allow you to seamlessly capture the right data crushside. Work through the below questionaire then follow the link at the end to see an interactive demo of how to best set up your templates.

Where do you draft your animals?

What groups of animals are you processing at once?

Drafted at A

Drafted A and B

Drafted B

i.e. Animals are pre-drafted and when scanned, you will be scanning a string of the same type of animal e.g. as listed below (with minor exceptions).

i.e. Animals are pre-drafted into groups, but within each group there is some variability

i.e. No drafting occurs before the crush

  • Branding Weaners

  • Branding Calves

  • Weaning older branders

  • Processing Breeders

  • Sale animals

  • Inductions

  • Breeders + Weaners

  • Weaners + Sale

  • Small weaners/calves drafted off into a separate race to be put into a branding cradle

  • The rest of the animals are processed as needed

A mixture of single and multi templates can be utilised here.

Multi-templates with a sub-template for all animal classes being processed at once would be recommended

Multi-templates with a sub-template for all animal classes being processed at once would be recommended

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