Maintaining records is an essential aspect of good livestock and dairy farm management. Many farmers tend to preserve records manually, either by writing down on the farm walls or in a book, which gets rubbed away or misplaced. They tend to depend on these means to remember essential dates of events of the animal lifecycle. It causes damage to animal health and loss in farm production. Hence, animal identification and recording all its activities are important. Farm reports help farmers analyze their farm progress, find out loopholes or action areas, assess profit against investment, list down accurate facts and figures, and take necessary actions whenever and wherever required. Here, we pull down a few benefits of maintaining farm livestock records and information. Records help farmers:
- Evaluate animal’s records that’ll give them a further aid in selecting and culling animals
- Create animal pedigree for assessment, design breeding plans, selecting parents, and follow better culling practices.
- Test progeny of bulls, analyze feed cost against animal produce and devise feeding strategies for optimized animal and farm production.
- Detect illness issues, diseases, and abnormal health issues in cattle that result in health deterioration, milk production loss, unwanted fatality, etc.
- Find commonly occurring infections and formulate preventive measures to avert the ill-effects by administering vaccines, deworming the cattle, etc.
- Supervise cattle in a way that conforms to the wellbeing of livestock.
- Track and maintain farm economics like income and expenditure and ensure they’re in place.
- Estimate milk production cost, and examine labor and cattle efficiency.
- Evaluate the current profit and loss of the dairy farm output and compare with previous year’s production to determine future targets and goals.
It’s important for dairy farmers to maintain records regarding animal history, livestock, calving, cattle breeding, herd health, daily milk yield, calf growth record, daily feed, etc. for continuous evaluation and reformation of strategies and practices.
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