Animals Sold/Died by Date
Animal records are not deleted once they are sold or have died. However, records for sold or died animals are archived after a certain period of time. This is important because it changes the command used to view a list of sold/died animals by date.
Want to learn more about how animal records move to the archive? Click here!
The CLEANUP window contains options for controlling how animal records are moved to the archive. To open this window, enter CLEANUP in the command line.
In the Settings tab, you can set the archive schedule for three types of records:
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Dead Cow Records
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Dead Heifer Records
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Previous Lactation Records
For each of these, you may see different options depending on your DairyComp configuration:
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Not removed: Records stay in the active cowfile indefinitely.
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Removed after [X] days: Choose exactly how long records stay in the cowfile before archiving (the default is 90 days). Click directly on the Removed after... text to enter a custom number of days.
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Removed immediately: Archives records as soon as an animal is marked sold or died. (This option is only for herds not enabled with PULSE.)
To view a list of sold or died animals by date that have not yet been archived:
Pull the applicable animal records directly from the cowfile using the ARDAT item in the command. The ARDAT (Archive Date) item tells the system the date on which the animal was sold or died. So, to view a list of animals that were marked as sold on March 1, 2020 (and that have not yet been archived), your command would like this:
LIST ID FOR ARDAT=3/1/20 \D
You can also enter a date range instead of a single date, as in:
LIST ID FOR ARDAT=3/1/20-4/15/20 \D
The \D switch in the command tells the system to look for animals that have died.
To view a list of sold or died animals by date that have been moved to the archive:
Use the EVENTS command to search for these animals in the DAT and ARC files (rather than the cowfile). In this case, you'll use switches to select the dates and the events to list. For example:
EVENTS BDAT DID SID \2SI
Notice that the switch at the end of this command string has three parts:
- \2 tells DairyComp to run option 2 for the EVENTS command, which creates a list of animals and events.
- \S tells DairyComp to prompt for a start and end date for the events. Here is where you'll provide the date(s) for which you want results.
- \I tells DairyComp to prompt for the type of event(s) to include in the list. For our purposes we would choose SOLD and/or DIED.
Running this command generates a list of SOLD/DIED animals for the date(s) specified.
