Today, we put EID tags into all of the current and potential breeding ewes. We tagged 69 ewes in 1.5 hours using the LambTracker® ConvertToEID module. We also took notes on several sheep, and we decided not to put tags on the sheep scheduled for the butcher soon.
Everything in the LambTracker® program worked properly.
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.
The ConvertToEID module is now ready for testing against live sheep! The ConvertToEID module is a task in the program that provides a screen to look up a sheep, add and remove federal and farm tags, and scan and add EID tags. We’re ready to test it by adding EID tags to all of our breeding rams – hopefully this week.
These pictures show the very first LambTracker® device: an old Android 9 tablet. It was a very simple program to track lambing data. Our main goal for it was to display an ewe’s data during lambing for easy perusal.
We did our first field testing of the new EvaluateSheep module against our live sheep. We evaluated ram lambs.
This is the Nabi Jr. kids’ tablet, all set up to run LambTracker® tasks. It was one of our first iterations of a usable LambTracker® system.
Coding on the LambTracker® programs is continuing at a fast pace. We currently have several working modules.
We presented the LambTracker program and demo hardware at the Colorado Woolgrowers Conference in Montrose on July 18th, 2013. You can find the presentation files below.
