AI (Artificial Intelligence) is quickly becoming an unavoidable part of modern society. You’ve probably heard of AI, and you may have even used it yourself in the form of ChatGPT, Grok, or others. What we call “artificial intelligence” isn’t truly intelligent on its own yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s not capable.
However, it’s not without flaws.
Near the end of September last year, one of our users started experiencing printer issues. The printers we use work well, but can be a little finicky in bright sun. Her printer was not printing – instead, it was feeding seven blank labels each time she tried to print one. She’d just installed a new
Desert Weyr Boba Fett went to the freezer on the 26th of June, 2025. He was born on May 2nd, 2019, and was the son of Desert Weyr Wibbly and Desert Weyr Yolanda. He was born unassisted and weighed 9.79 pounds at birth. He grew to reach 145.74 pounds. His NSIP USA Maternal EBV Index was 102.52 before the 2025 lambs were included.
Over his productive lifetime, he sired 13 ram lambs and nine ewe lambs. He was known for his sweet disposition, and as he aged, his beautiful, silvery grey, crimpy wool. He liked to rub his horns on the fence, so he’d worn a hole in one horn, but they were beautifully shaped and very even. He was a born leader, keeping the ram lambs in check when he was with them.
Merry Christmas from the folks at AnimalTrakker®!
We hope you’ve been having a festive and happy holiday season! Recently, we’ve been thinking about the importance of being open source, and what it means for our world now and in the future.
We just completed our first field test of the AnimalTrakker® Bull Test Mobile application. To do this, we worked with several veterinarians, where we provided sample tube labels and collected breeding soundness data on 124 bulls over the course of two days.
Expanding my original concept of LambTracker® to cover other species now means it needs a new name. It’s not just for sheep anymore. The whole system is now AnimalTrakker®, and it will be trademarked.
My Python education is proceeding, but oh so slowly! I am still really having problems wrapping my head around position and text formatting being an important part of the actual code, rather than just space.
We’ve received a number of requests to expand LambTracker® into species other than sheep. I am slowly working through the tablet code to allow for use with cattle, goats, pigs, and horses in addition to sheep.
LambTracker® has always been focused on providing inexpensive options for shepherds. Specifically, we provide detailed individual records using automated systems, plus the ability to use EID tags.
