Note: this blog post was originally posted on lambtracker.com and has been moved here for preservation. Some information may be outdated.
During our first test against live sheep today, we had no program crashes. The database was properly updated. Old farm tags that we had to remove from sheep ears were successfully marked as removed. New EID tags got added to the database with a tag_date_on of today, then were attached to the correct sheep.
Sheep that had an alert in their record because they were scheduled to be butchered came up with a proper alert, and were then excluded from the tag swap.
All of our breeding rams now have Shearwell SET tags. One ram jumped out of the chute, so he did not get his tag replaced. However, due to his behavior, he may become a dinner sheep and not need a new tag anyway.
We did have a few user interface issues. Some of the buttons to add tags, remove tags, and update the database were too close to each other. I’ve moved them around as suggested, and we’re ready to convert the ewe flock now, too.