You can set up animal groups to allow you to track animals from the same stock class against a target weight over a period of time:
📝 An animal can only belong to one group at a time.
📝 You must have admin permissions to create or modify groups.
Animals are typically grouped by age (e.g. born 2024) so that they have the same target weight, but they may also be grouped by other things such as:
Sex
Breed
Source of origin
Owner of animal
Here are some example groups:
2024 born steers
R2 Angus heifers
2023 born steers from Millar
O'Neil's R1 Heifers
Spring 2023 born steers from Smith
2023 born lambs
In the example below, two groups of animals are being grazed together on the farm. The animals are the same age (R1), but they have been divided into two groups in Datamars Livestock - one group for heifers and one group for steers. This means that weight gains for heifers and steers can be tracked separately.
📝 An animal can only belong to a single group at a time, and in most cases will remain in that group throughout its time on your farm.
Managing groups as animals age
The age of animals in a group will change over time. If you have named your group according to age (e.g. R1 steers), then you can either:
Rename the group to match the current age of animals (e.g. change R1 steers to R2 steers, or
Create a new group called R2 steers and move those animals into the new group.
💡 If you want animals to remain in the same group, try naming them with the year that they were born (e.g 2024 born steers).