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Reproductive Management Monitoring Patterns of First Inseminations This article is the first in a planned series on the use of DairyCOMP305 to improve reproductive performance. These articles will focus on using DC305 and other VAS products to guide tasks, assess implementation, and analyze outcomes. Introduction The ultimate goal of any reproductive program is the conversion of eligible open animals to pregnant animals as efficiently as possible. Pregnancy risk is the tool

EGRAPH eventname FOR Statement EGRAPH eventname accepts conditional statements using FOR followed by item constraints. More than one event can be graphed at the same time by specifying the event names after EGRAPH. Events can also be defined by their event code (e.g., FRESH is the same as EC=1). BY Clause Single BY clauses can be used with EGRAPH eventname. The most common use of a BY item is the definition of the data labels, as reflected in the legend table. Item ty

Increasing event data entry speed with the ditto key (*) in DC305 The time required for manual entry of event data can be greatly decreased for events with multiple prompts (e.g., BRED) when the prompted information for a second cow is identical to the previous cow. The first animal's information is entered in the usual manner. If the next animal's prompted information is identical to the first animal's data, an asterisk (*) following the next animal's ID will serve as a dit

Sources of Discrepancies between Predicted and Actual Dry Matter Intakes Introduction The level of dry matter intake (DMI) is very strongly related to milk production and profitability in lactating dairy cows. Therefore, in most cases management will be attempting to encourage maximum dry matter intake of correctly formulated diets while avoiding excessive overfeeding. Many prediction equations have been developed over the past 50 years and are the basis of modern dairy diet f

Pocket CowCard Update Log Download CowCard Download User's Manual from http://www.vas.com/PocketCowcard.pdf WARNING: Since August 24, 2009 Pocket CowCard no longer reads any herd data from My Documents! Please DELIVER All Posts to DairyComp for ALL HERDS on your handheld BEFORE UPDATING!! Aug 19,

Occasionally you need to know if a mapped network drive has become unavailable, perhaps to send a message to reset the connection, or possibly to abort

Insert Summary Here Section 1 SETDAY - The system date SETDAY is used to set the date used as "Today" by Dairy Comp. "Today" is automatically set when the program starts and is changed

  Many estimates in managing a dairy involve proportions or probabilities.  For example, conception risk is the probability that an inseminated cow will be diagnosed pregnant sometime in the future.  Pregnancy risk is the probability that an open, eligible cow will b

with ECON\G     Dry Matter Intake (DMI) is the amount of feed that a cow eats per day, after adjusting for the variation in moisture.   Actual DMI is estimated by measuring the amount delivered, and subtracting the amount left over, after adjusting both for the moistur

How ECON\ calculates the dry off date The following priority is used : The item specified in the command itself, eg ECON\I DUDRY Else, it l

There is some confusion about how DC305 will handle scheduled tasks when the "Today" date is not correct. Hopefully this will explain how that works. Dali clock Tod

CONNECT is often used to upload ZOF files to support. The focus of this Wiki is to clarify confusion about the various methods of uploading. This is incomplete, curr

Pocket CowCard and Handheld Devices  2/01/10    Pocket CowCard (PCC) is client version of DairyCOMP305 that runs on handheld devices  (PDAs).  VAS has evaluated a number of these handheld devices for compatibility with PCC  as well as suitability for our clients? environmental operating conditions.   As with any  technology, VAS will be evaluating new hardware as it becomes available.     This factsheet represents VAS?s current offerings and suggested units (Feb 1, 2010).  These  device

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DC305 Classic Software Updates

If you are more comfortable with the classic update method, try the DCWUP installer files, Beta Programs will also be here. New features and fixes can be viewed here: Update Log To download any of the dcwups, you will need the DairyComp Account # and Serial #. If you don?t  know these codes, execu

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