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Milking Parlor Performance Questions
I'm a Milk Quality specialist and have to pay close attention to many details at the farms I work with to ensure quality milk harvest and minimize health issues in my herds. Some of my farms have parlors sending individual milkings to BoviSync. How can
Sire breed
How can one indicate or change the specific breed of the sires?
Chore days within a protocol
When I am working on a protocol, why is it that the first chore can only be within 7 days after enrollment? I would like to be able to add a treatment 18 days after enrollment.
Bovi-Insights Event Report
With the Bovi Insights Event report how do I add an item for DIM or Lact at the Event? Thanks
Activity Monitoring Report
Activity monitoring systems are being used on farms to improve reproductive performance, reduce labor, and overall reducing the cost of production. BoviSync interfaces with a number of these systems by importing a heat or warning event. These systems
Dry Off Reports
There are several ways to look at reports for scheduled dry offs. One of the best items to use is the NDDAT item which relies on the herd settings for dry off. The herd setting for predicting the dry off date is based on the desired dry period length
Understanding "Week in Milk" Projections
BoviSync has items for weeks in milk that go from Week 2 Milk to Week 36 Milk. These items are influenced by both parlor weights and DHI test day data. Weeks in milk that are greater than a cow's days in milk are extrapolated values and are used to help
Pen Moves affecting Parlor Milk
When a cow gets moved from one pen to another pen, does this "move event" affect milk production? Often, this analysis only looks at the animals that moved, and not the “negative controls” or similar animals that did not move. This report – Milk response
Sold Animals and Check Numbers
BoviSync has a report called Sold Animals Missing Check Numbers that farms can use to reconcile their sold animals with the farm checkbook and ensure you are being paid for all animals. This report is a list of all sold events in the last six months that
Importing matings into BoviSync
Could you send me instructions on how to import matings into BoviSync?
Preg Check and Sex Check results
Many farms want to know the Preg Check results of a recent herd check. These results are only available after all barn/farm phones have been synced. There is a Global Report that will show these results and those within the last 90 days. To get to the
Embryo Transfer vs AI pregnancies
To forecast information about an embryo transfer program, a report would need to show this information per month: 1. The number of animals due from AI or Embryo Transfer and whether the pregnancies is from a cow or heifer 2. The number of animals pregnant
ECM (Energy Corrected Milk)
BoviSync has a number of items that display different ECM (Energy Corrected Milk) values. These values only show for those herds that do regular DHI milk testing. ECM = Energy Corrected Milk at last test day for the current lactation PECM = Energy Corrected
Data recording when using two bulls AI at service
When using two different bulls at AI for varying reasons (eg Beef and HO back to back), how does anyone go about it without then creating two services in the TBred for the cow? is it possible and how does that then impact the semen inventory. Cheers
Summary reports to compare month to month progress
I am wondering how I can generate some summary reports for Transition Cow performance and disease prevalence. I would like to look at this on monthly basis to benchmark performance. I am also interested in repro performance summary.
Different due dates but same breeding dates
I have a number of animals with the same breeding dates but different due dates. This makes it difficult to sort animals for freshening and for closeup pen moves. There are 2 heifers with the same breeding and are 10 days apart in due dates. And, another
Searching and Creating Items with Bovi-Insights
I am trying to search for the Bovi-Insights version of the item SireBull found in current reports, and I am having some trouble. Searching in Insights is a little bit frustrating because it feels like not all items containing the search terms pop-up when
Milking Unit Deviations and Parlor Deviations
I've seen the report in the parlor category 'Average Milk and Deviations by Unit', but after I calibrated the parlor, it still doesn't make sense to me. Can you explain what that report is?
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