Sold to Finisher or Sold to Dairy - Limited History Copy

Sold to Finisher or Sold to Dairy - Limited History Copy

This guide will walk through the process of creating a Sold-Cull event with either reason: "Sold to Finisher" or "Sold to Dairy" and a limited history copy. This method will sell an animal from farm A to farm B. This process will create a new animal at farm B with limited history.

You can only perform these events from BoviSync web.

Before you can sell animals to the receiving farm you will need to make sure you have "Move Only" permission at the receiving farm. A user with admin permissions will need to provide you with "Move Only" permission. Follow this guide to for that process by clicking on this link.

If you already have the "Move Only" permission at the receiving farm you can proceed to the next step.

Find the animal(s) that you are selling to the other farm by running this report at your farm. Once the report comes back with results click Modify


Update the eartags in the report to the eartags/IDs that you are selling. *Each eartag/ID needs to be separated by a space or a comma. *Tip: you can paste from Excel, up to 400 eartags at a time


Click Fetch Report to return a report of only the animals that you want to create a Sold-Cull event for


With the report of animals to move click the "check box" in the upper left corner of the report to select all animals



Select Event Entry to create events for all of these animals


Enter an event type of Sold-Cull


Select a Cull Type of "Sold-for-Dairy" or "Sold-to-Finisher"


Select the destination pen. This is the farm you are selling to. *Note: you will only see the receiving pens for which you have access to. If you do not see any pens either you do not have access to the farm you are selling to or the farm does not have any receiving pens setup.


The transfer history should be set to "Limited".


Limited will create a new animal at the receiving farm but will only move over a limited amount of events and information for the sold animal.
The following animal items are copied over:
  • Barn Name
  • Eartag
  • Breed
  • Lactation #
  • Age
  • Repro Status
  • Repro Event Date (if applicable)
  • DCC
  • Last Heat (if applicable)
  • DIM
  • Sire
  • EID
  • Registered ID (if available)
  • Fresh date (if applicable)
  • First bred date (if applicable)
  • Last bred date (if applicable)
  • Due date (if applicable)
  • Days Open (if available)
  • Days since last heat (if available)

The following events are copied over from the current lactation to the main cow card page (these events are also visible on the animals event history tab):
  • Most recent preg check
  • Breeding that animal is confirmed preg to or most recent bred event if not confirmed pregnant but bred
  • Fresh event

All fresh events from prior lactations are also copied over and are viewable in the animals event history tab. Any uncompleted chores are cleared for both receiving and selling farms.

Continuing with the event entry select a Primary Reason for the event


Check the animals you are about to sell one final time, then select a Date and Technician. Click Save when you are ready to sell the animals

You will see a notice at the bottom of the browser showing you the results of the event save


Example of animal that was sold to the receiving farm with limited history.



This is what the cow card will look like at your farm after an animal has been sold to another farm.





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