Dam Info not transferred to
calves
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Occasionally
a user will see that some of the dam info, especially page 5 info, does not go
to the calve’s record. This is almost always due to the ETDAM item
being misdefined.
Item
42 is a “sacred item”, whether you use ETs or not,
this item is used by the program.
Normally it is called “ETDAM”, sometimes “ETMOM”. It is a type 17,
located by default at 97,2.
Usually
what happens is the user has changed the item to something else, or directly or
indirectly put data into the item. Then, when FRESH is used, it looks at the
item, assumes it is the ID of the dam, and tried to look the dam up. If it
cannot find the dam, it creates a blank record and this blank data is later
moved to the calf. The most common
symptom then is blank data on the cowcard page 5 of
the calf, where the dam production info usually would be.
As
of
Warning ! No dam
info transferred in FRESH - check item #42
Hopefully
this may help diagnose the problem.
Solution
If
this is happening
1 : put item # 42
back the way it is supposed to be (ETDAM, type 17, 97,2)
2 : verify that it is
zeroes (or a true ET dam) for all cows :
SHOW
ID #42 FOR ID>0
Or
SHOW
ID #42 FOR #42>0