Merging Duplicate Animals
If animals are scanned at destination farm, before a 'move off farm' event is entered; a new animal will be created upon scanning the EID. To merge the two animals into 1 record in BoviSync follow the video below. At the end is a section about merging animals at the same location that share a number of fields. See this section for more information on when an animal record will be merged.
Use this Comparison Report to help troubleshoot animals not merging
Written Instructions:
The following must be the same in both animals for a merge to occur. One animal can have the information missing for it to not be considered a conflict and permit the merge:
- Eartag
- EID
- Is Registered (yes/no value)
- Registered ID
- Registration Country
- Registration Status
- Birth Date
- Sire ID
- Dam (genetic)
- Dam ID born to (Entered by fresh event entry to different animals)
Some additional criteria that prevents merging:
- If the animals are both offsite and have different owners
- Unique EIDs or Eartag
- The animal may not have any daughters
- If both animals have test day or parlor data
- If they are 180 or more days apart in age
- If they have the same owner, except in the case of saving a newly created animal from an offline device
After you have ensured that those items match both animals' records:
- Move the animal back to it's home farm
- Login to the animal's home farm
- Delete the 'move off farm' event you created in step 1
- Login to the farm the animal was at, the two records will be merged into one.
Video Tutorial:
To play this video in fullscreen, click here
If the merge feature is causing unwanted animal merges, please contact our Customer Success Team. We will enable an additional feature that will help prevent merges from occurring.