
Hair & Coat Shedding Score
Guide to hair and coat shedding scores. The ideal time to evaluate hair coat shedding is beginning and end of spring breeding season.
Hair & Coat Shedding Score TableProduction records are important to ranch management. Records help track inventory, project future calving dates, and monitor performance. Records also help monitor change over time and progress toward goals. Producers use records to track traits that are economically important. This site contains links to information on scoring cattle characteristics like feet and udders, guidelines and factsheets, and performance and health record forms. A list of recommended software providers to assist with cattle record keeping is also included.
Guide to hair and coat shedding scores. The ideal time to evaluate hair coat shedding is beginning and end of spring breeding season.
Hair & Coat Shedding Score TableGuides to teat and udder scoring. The ideal time for udder and teat scores (taken on the weakest quarter) is within 24 hours of calving.
Guides for determining foot score, using cattle foot angle and claw set. Scores should be determined prior to hoof trimming.
Official US standards for grades of thrifty feeder cattle for frame size and thickness.
Guide to body condition scores for cattle. Ideal times to BCS cattle are 90 days pre-calving, and at calving, breeding, and weaning.
Guidelines is a publication of the Beef Improvement Federation that outlines
procedures for recording beef cattle performance data.
A guide to using international year/letter designations for animal identification.
Guide to measuring pelvic area. The pelvic area is calculated by multiplying vertical and horizontal dimensions of the internal pelvic opening.
A guide for determing the age of cattle by teeth, courtesy of The Stockman's Handbook by Ensminger, 2nd edition.
This chute side worksheet is used for recording animal type, weight, body condition score, and reproduction tract score and pelvic measurements. There is also a comments column that can be used for additional scores, such as disposition, or health notes.
FSA3010 addresses the serious issue of dystocia (calving difficulty) and offers instructions for properly measuring pelvic area in heifers.
CES405 provides a detailed spreadsheet for recording and maintaining cattle breeding details, along with cow/calf management codes and scores.
The Beef Herd Health Record booklet contains information related to cattle vaccination and processing, and provides tables for maintaining treatment records.
AG803 - Livestock and Forage Record Book
AG803 is a pocket book that can be ordered through your County Extension Agent. It
contains management tips and record-keeping resources for cattle and forages.
Company Name | Cloud Access | Website URL |
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Cattle Max | Yes | https://www.cattlemax.com/ |
Herdone | Yes | https://herdone.com/ |
Cow Sense | Limited | https://midwestmicro.us/products |
Cattle Pro | No | http://www.cattlepro.com/ |
BovIQ | Mobile Device | http://boviq.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ |