Note: An animal must be in inventory before you can enter health, breeding,  carcass, or transfer data on it. Therefore, the first step to data entry for a given animal is to enter or confirm that the animal is in the herd inventory. The minimum data needed to enter an animal into inventory is EID and Visual ID.

• Step 1 - If not already logged on to CattleTrax then logon using the following ID and password:

Producer User ID: 999999
Password: demo

• Step 2 - When you press the Login to CattleTrax button you are taken directly to the Producer Main Menu.
• Step 3 - At the Producer Main Menu choose Enter Data. You are taken to the Data Entry Main Menu screen.
• Step 4 - Select the data entry choice: Add/Edit Herd Records and you will be taken to the Select Lot/Group screen. Enter Select All for the lot and group to view and then you will be taken to the Herd Records Data Entry screen.
• Step 5 - Pick EID DEMOEID001 from the drop-down scroll box and enter the data as given below:

Herd Records Data     EID: DEMOEID001 Group ID: P-bred Visual ID: J407 Tattoo: J407 Tattoo Location: Left Ear Breed: Hereford Purebred Reg#: P19280071 P/H/S: Polled Milestone: Current Condition Score: 6     Hide/Hair Color: Brown/Wht Face Calving Ease: Unknown Weight: 970 Date of Weight: 05/10/00 Frame Score: 6.1 Pelvic Area: 28 Dam VID: F400 Sire VID: E582 Remarks: Twin to Bull Sex: F

• Step 6 - Press the Add/Update Herd Records button. Your data will be entered into the database.

• Step 7 - Enter the following calf data into CattleTrax using the same procedure as above.

Herd Records Data     EID: DEMOEID003 Group ID: Comm Visual ID: J407B Tattoo: J407B Tattoo Location: Left Ear Breed: Hereford Purebred Reg#:   P/H/S: Polled Milestone: Current Condition Score: 6     Hide/Hair Color: Brown/Wht Face Calving Ease: Unknown Weight: 1015 Date of Weight: 05/10/00 Frame Score:   Pelvic Area:   Dam VID: F400 Sire VID: E582 Remarks: Twin to Heifer Sex: M

• Step 1 - If not already logged on to CattleTrax then logon using the following ID and password:

Producer User ID: 999999
Password: demo

• Step 2 - When you press the Login to CattleTrax button you are taken directly to the Producer Main Menu.
• Step 3 - At the Producer Main Menu choose Enter Data. You are taken to the Data Entry Main Menu screen.
• Step 4 - Select the data entry choice: Add Health Records and you will be taken to the Health Records Data Entry screen.
• Step 5 - Pick Visual ID J407B from the scroll box and enter the data as given below: (Note: J407B must already be in inventory, If you have not done this previously then follow the directions in Step 7 of Entering Herd Records into CattleTrax above.)

Health Data     Visual ID: J407B Treatment Wt.: 490 Treatment Date: 08/28/99 Treatment Temp.: 103.5 Milestone: Current Procedure 1: Nuflor Procedure 2: Vitamins: ADE Procedure 3: -- Procedure 4: -- Procedure 5: -- Procedure 6: --

• Step 6 - Press the Add Health Data button. Your data will be entered into the database.

• Step 1 - If not already logged on to CattleTrax then logon using the following ID and password:

Producer User ID: 999999
Password: demo

• Step 2 - When you press the Login to CattleTrax button you are taken directly to the Producer Main Menu.
• Step 3 - At the Producer Main Menu choose Enter Data. You are taken to the Data Entry Main Menu screen.
• Step 4 - Select the data entry choice: Add Breeding Records and you will be taken to the Breeding Records Data Entry screen.
• Step 5 - Pick Visual ID J407 from the drop-down scroll box (This is the dam visual id.) and enter the data as given below: (Note: J407 must already be in inventory, If you have not done this previously then follow the directions in Steps 1 - 6 of Entering Herd Records into CattleTrax above.)

Breeding Data     Visual ID: J407 Service Sire VID: H905 Calf Due Date: -- Breed Start Date: 06/04/00 Breed End Date: 08/25/00

Note: The only information needed for the service sire is visual id. The sire does not have to be in inventory as it can be from another herd so may not have an EID.

• Step 6 - Press the Add Breeding Data button. Your data will be entered into the database.

Use this procedure to enter sire information on sires in your herd. Sires from outside herds are not considered part of your inventory. The only information that is stored on them is the visual id when entering breeding data. See Entering Breeding Data into CattleTrax above.

• Step 1 - If not already logged on to CattleTrax then logon using the following ID and password:

Producer User ID: 999999
Password: demo

• Step 2 - When you press the Login to CattleTrax button you are taken directly to the Producer Main Menu.
• Step 3 - At the Producer Main Menu choose Enter Data. You are taken to the Data Entry Main Menu screen.
• Step 4 - Select the data entry choice: Add/Edit Herd Records and you will be taken to the Herd Records Data Entry screen.
• Step 5 - Pick EID DEMOEID002 from the drop-down scroll box and enter the data as given below:

Herd Records Data     EID: DEMOEID002 Herd ID: P-bred Visual ID: F99 Tattoo: F99 Tattoo Location: Left Ear Breed: Hereford Purebred Reg#: P19001014 P/H/S: Polled Milestone: Current Condition Score: 6     Hide/Hair Color: Brown/Wht Face Calving Ease: Unknown Weight:   Date of Weight:   Frame Score:   Pelvic Area:   Dam VID:   Sire VID:   Remarks:   Sex: M

• Step 6 - Press the Add/Update Herd Records button. Your data will be entered into the database.

• Step 1 - If not already logged on to CattleTrax then logon using the following ID and password:

Producer User ID: 999999
Password: demo

• Step 2 - When you press the Login to CattleTrax button you are taken directly to the Producer Main Menu.
• Step 3 - At the Producer Main Menu choose Enter Data. You are taken to the Data Entry Main Menu screen.
• Step 4 - Select the data entry choice: Add Carcass Records and you will be taken to the Carcass Record Data Entry screen.
• Step 5 - Pick Visual ID J407B from the drop-down scroll box and enter the data as given below: (Note: J407B must already be in inventory, If you have not done this previously then follow the directions in Step 8 of Entering Inventory Data into CattleTrax above.)

Carcass Data     Visual ID: J407B Kill Date: 07/03/00 USDA Plant ID: 969G Hot Weight: 780 % Cut: 68 KPH: 2.4 Rib Eye Area: 12.9 Fat Thickness: 1.1 Yield Grade: 3.2 Quality Grade: Choice

• Step 6 - Press the Add Carcass Data button. Your data will be entered into the database.

• Step 1 - If not already logged on to CattleTrax then logon using the following ID and password:

Producer User ID: 999999
Password: demo

• Step 2 - When you press the Login to CattleTrax button you are taken directly to the Producer Main Menu.
• Step 3 - At the Producer Main Menu choose Transfer Animal to New Owner. You are taken to the Transfer Animals to New Owner screen.
• Step 4 - Select the YES to indicate that the new owner has an account with CattleTrax and you will be taken to the Transfer Animals to Existing Owner screen.
• Step 5 - Enter 999999 for the Owner ID and press continue. Select J407B as the animal to transfer and press Transfer Ownership of Selected Animals button to transfer ownership. You will get a confirmation message and then you can return to the main menu.

(Note: J407B must already be in inventory. If you have not done this previously then follow the directions in Entering Herd Records into CattleTrax above.)