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Records for R
are Breeds
Oogie M
cGuire
Desert W
eyr, LLC
Paonia,CO
Save B
reeds & B
loodlines
●Loss of Identity●Loss of D
iversity●Loss of Bloodlines●Loss of Breeds
3 Reasons to K
eep Records
●Pedigree●Perform
ance●Politics
Pedigree
●Who is this?
●How
does this animal relate to the breed
as a whole?
●What is the genealogy of this anim
al?●W
hat are the genetics of this animal?
What to K
eep
●Anim
al Registration, N
ame and ID
●Sire R
egistration, Nam
e and ID●
Dam
Registration, N
ame and ID
●Inform
ation on Bloodline Group if Available
●Birth D
ate●
Progeny Records
Perform
ance
●Who to Keep vs C
ull ●Production R
ecords●M
anagement Tasks
●Breed Characteristics
What to K
eep
●E
valuation data●
Birth Type (S
ingle, Twin etc.)
●W
eights at various ages●
Carcass or Loin S
canning Data
●N
otes on Disposition or Injury or?
●D
rugs Given
●Vaccine or D
eworm
ers●
Hoof Trim
s, Shearing &
Other M
anagement Tasks
●R
ank within the Flock or H
erd
Politics
●State or Federal M
andated Program
s–S
laughter Withdraw
al Rules
–Brucellosis Testing/Tagging
–Federal Scrapie P
rogram●Voluntary C
ertification Program
s–G
rass Fed–O
PP
Free
What to K
eep
●D
ate of Drugs given
●D
ate off Slaughter Withdraw
al●
Blood Draw
dates and test results●
Ow
nership History
●O
ff Label Veterinarian Prescriptions●
Verification required for other programs
What A
re your Options?
●Hum
an Mem
ory●Paper R
ecords●C
omputer R
ecords
Mem
ory Pros and C
ons
●Pros
–Easy to use – E
veryone has a brain●C
ons–W
e all forget things–W
e remem
ber things inaccurately–C
onnections can be impossible to see
–What if you die or are incapacitated?
Paper P
ros and Cons
●Pros
–Easy to use
–Low C
ost–P
ortable ●C
ons–H
ard to make correlations
–Time consum
ing to keep current–C
an become illegible over tim
e
Com
puter Pros and C
ons
●Pros
–Easy to m
ake correlations–E
asy to back up–E
asy to share with others
–Can reduce data entry errors
●Cons
–Can be expensive
–Formats can be ephem
eral–R
equires knowledgable user &
infrastructure
Our H
istory
●Kate's C
alendar–H
ard to read–M
issing identification●S
preadsheep–14 years w
orth of data–H
ard to extract useful bits–Tim
e consuming to keep updated
–Starting looking for replacem
ent in 2012
What N
eeded to Change
●B
etter Identification●
Less Time S
pent Collecting D
ata●
Easier to m
ake Correlations
●E
asier to produce Reports
●Less Tim
e Handling S
heep●
Fewer E
rrors –
Problem
s Reading Tags
–D
ata Transcription Issues
Review
of Com
mercial S
W S
olutions
●M
ost are expensive ($750/yr)●
Inexpensive ones didn't keep all the records we w
anted●
Most run on W
indows O
nly●
None are O
pen Source so w
e can't change them●
Most have lim
its on numbers of anim
als●
Most still require transcription from
chute side●
No integration w
ith EID
except in high end ones●
No integration w
ith NS
IP reporting
Ground R
ules for Our S
ystem
●M
ust be Open S
ource●
Readily available hardw
are parts●
Free software developm
ent tools●
Developm
ent environment on M
acintosh, Linux and W
indows system
s●
Use a standard, portable, cross-platform
programm
ing language (Java)
●U
se a standard, portable, cross-platform database
(SQ
Lite)
What D
o We U
se Now
?
LambTracker System
Suite of technologies we use to keep our
flock records
Overall S
ystem D
esign
What is O
ur LambTracker S
etup?
●Shearwell EID
tags in all sheep●H
ome Built EID
Reader
●Handheld C
omputer for Field U
se●SQ
Lite Database
●LambTracker M
obile Software
●LambTracker D
esktop Software
Why U
se EID
?
●R
educe Tag Reading Errors
●Save Labor
●Allow
s easy tracking of individual Sheep●
Performance D
ata linked easily●
Managem
ent Data linked easily
●Sm
aller tags are better for our small sheep
Handheld C
omputer
●Kids Android Tablet N
abi Jr. $99-$139●
Other Android Tablets and Phones
●Future Plans for rugged and sunlight readable Android system
s
Why A
ndroid?
●2 C
hoices for handheld - Apple iO
S and A
ndroidTM
●A
pple requires a license to use bluetooth in your application–
Secret A
greement
–U
ndetermined cost
–U
ndetermined Ts&
Cs
–R
equires special chips in your device i.e. custom hardw
are–
App has to be approved by A
pple●
Android
TM has an open bluetooth environment
–U
ses any standard bluetooth radio–
Open S
ource Developm
ent Environm
ent–
Access is easy
Our C
urrent Softw
are Design
●Lam
bTracker Mobile Version
–Android
TM Application written in Java
●Lam
bTracker Desktop Version
–Application w
ill be written in Java
–Leverage off the handheld system
using Chrom
e brow
ser as the platform.
●D
atabase is using SQLite
–C
omm
on to both Handheld and D
esktop
LambTracker D
atabase Overview
What's R
unning Now
?
●Lam
bTracker Mobile
–All 2014 D
ata collection was using Lam
bTracker–
We have m
odules written for m
ost of our comm
on flock tasks.
●EID
Reader W
orks●
SQLite D
atabase Designed and W
orking●
Desktop Softw
are in process
2 Flocks Using Lam
bTracker
LambTracker M
obile Modules
●Evaluate Sheep–
Scored Evaluations - Scale 1-5–
Real Scores - W
eights and other measurem
ents–
Custom
Evaluations●
Lambing
–Add Lam
bs–
Collect Lam
b ID and Birth D
ata●
Print Labels
LambTracker D
esktop
●C
urrently reports are hand produced using direct SQLite
Queries in Firefox brow
ser with SQ
Lite extensions●
chromeos-apk/archon is w
orking on Macintosh and Linux
systems
●D
evelopment of the desktop activities is proceeding
LambTracker D
evelopment
●R
eady, Fire, Aim!
●Like any Battle Plan, Lam
bTracker rarely survived first contact w
ith the sheep●
Get som
ething running●
Test with live sheep
●D
ebug and refine●
Docum
ent future enhancements
and move on
Chute S
ide Debugging
Tasks We've U
sed LambTracker For
●C
onvert from visual to E
ID tags
●E
valuate sheep in fall●
Breeding
–S
et up mating plans
–S
ort ewes into breeding groups
●A
I Research w
/ US
DA N
AG
P–
Collect C
IDR
Insertion times
–C
ollect Teasing data–
Collect Insem
ination data–
Collect U
ltrasound data
AI R
esearch with U
SD
A NA
GP
Tasks We've U
sed LambTracker For
●Spring Tune-U
p–
Docum
ent Toe Trimm
ing–
Dew
orm and Vaccinate before lam
bing●
Shearing–
Collect notes on sheep health, behavior and fleece
quality–
Print labels for wool bags
Shearing D
ata
Tasks We've U
sed LambTracker For
●Lam
bing–
Docum
ent permanent and tem
porary IDs
–C
ollect Lambease, birth w
eights and lambing notes
●Perform
ance Data
–C
ollect weanling, yearling and adult w
eights–
Collect blood for scrapie genetics and O
PP testing–
Print labels for blood tubes
Find a New
Lamb
Who is the dam
?
Tag the Lamb
Collect Lam
b Data
Data E
ntry Quality C
ontrol
All D
one
Som
e Problem
s
●S
ome Tags broke.
–B
roken tags could still be read. –
Shearw
ell changed the plastic for the US
producers.●
Som
e Tags lost but less than other tags–
2012 before Shearw
ell lost 34 old tags–
2013 before conversion to Shearw
ell lost 13 old tags–
2013 after conversion lost 2 Shearw
ell tags●
Snow
and Rain on H
andheld were problem
s–
Saran W
rap on screen solved the problem
Guardian D
og
LambTracker S
aved Time
●From
1 August 2013 to 15 October 2014
●W
e worked sheep for 212 hours (2 or m
ore people)●
Would have taken us 145 m
ore hours w/o Lam
bTracker●
Example – Sort 10 ram
s from a flock of 62
–Total elapsed tim
e 1 hour including moving ram
s to and from
their pasture.–
Norm
ally that would have taken us 2-2.5 hours due to
tag look-up time
LambTracker C
osts
●Program
ming tim
e - 1 April 2013 to 15 October 2014
●1145 hours program
ming
●O
ver 20,000 lines of code●
2 Nabi Jr. H
andhelds $238●
2 EID R
eaders ~$200●
200 EID tags $218 inclu. shipping from
UK $75.78
●200 Pairs EID
& Visual Tags ~$300 inclu. shipping
Future Plans
●B
etter Integration with N
SIP
and LambP
lan●
Full ownership and m
ovement history
●M
ore refined User Interface
●Im
proved entry of historical data●
Better reporting out
●A
dditional Language versions–
Have had requests for S
panish and French●
More D
evelopers●
Test with A
utomatic S
orting and Weighing E
quipment
Why?
●Our goal is not to m
ake $ on this but to enable the sheep raising com
munity to use
appropriate technology. ●O
ther people can adapt the software to their
own specific needs or for other species.
●Us giving back to the sheep industry.
●We are doing things the “big guys” can't or
won't.
The shoulders we stand on
●D
r. Dan Love
●D
r. Susie H
irsch●
Dr. P
hil Purdy
●D
r. Wayne W
iitanen●
Neil O
ughton●
Eric C
oker●
DX
R●
Ray M
cGuinness
●R
evolution Brew
ing
●G
oogle●
Sun M
icrosystems &
James
Gosling
●S
hearwell U
K●
Allflex U
S●
Priority 1 D
esign●
Linus Torvalds●
Dennis R
itchie & K
en Thompson
●D
onald Cham
berlin & R
aymond
Boyce
For More Inform
ation
●H
ardware D
esign on GitH
ub now–
How
ever, it's missing lots of details, by design.
●P
resentation and information on our w
ebsite–
http://ww
w.lam
btracker.com●
Source C
ode on GitH
ub now–
https://github.com/O
ogieM●
Got Q
uestions? Contact us
–oogiem
@desertw
eyr.com–
kenm@
desertweyr.com
–970-527-3573
Status of E
ID W
orldwide
●A
ustralia–
Varies by State
–Tagging R
equired – Can be E
ID●
New
Zealand–
EID
Mandatory for C
attle & D
eer–
Optional for sheep
●C
anada–
EID
Mandatory for S
heep as of 1 Jan 2013
Status of E
ID W
orldwide
●U
nited Kingdom
–
Double Tagging M
andatory for Sheep as of 1 Jan 2010
–1 Tag m
ust be EID
–C
an use Rum
en Bolus in place of E
ID tag but still need
visual tag–
Slaughter lam
bs under 1 year rules vary by country●
United S
tates–
Tagging Required for S
ale or Transport–
EID
is an option but not required
EID
Devices
●M
icrochips–
Implanted behind ear
–C
an Migrate
–Fragile
Not suitable for use in
sheep, esp. rams.
Processors w
on't recoverC
annot be read w/o
equipment
●R
umen Bolus
–C
an Be Reusable
–Expensive
EID
System
Requirem
ents
●E
ID D
evices–
Microchip
–R
umen B
olus–
Ear Tag
●R
eader Hardw
are–
Handheld
–C
omputer C
onnected–
Chute S
ide
●Software on Desktop C
omputers
–Easy to edit and update
●S
oftware for H
andheld D
evices–
Typically task oriented–
Often subset of total data
Som
e Com
mon E
ID E
ar Tag Com
panies
●Allflex - U
S–
Button & Flag Styles
–$1.75-$2.90
●Y-Tex - U
S–
Flag Style–
$3.39-$4.00
●D
estron Fearing - U
S–B
utton Style
–$2.35
–B
ought Out by
AllFlex
US
– Optional
UK
– Mandatory
●R
itchey - UK
–S
napp Tag–
$1.40 Pairs (V
isual & E
ID)
–C
ompetes w
ith S
hearwell
●S
hearwell - U
K–
SE
T Tag–
$1.09 EID
only–
$1.40 Pairs (V
isual & E
ID)
EID
Reader H
ardware
●P
ocket or Portable D
evices–
Som
e are attached to computer
–P
rices range from $400-$1500 or m
ore●
Panel R
eaders–
Used in racew
ays, chutes and on scales
–C
an talk to sort gates–
Prices start at $3900 and go up
–U
sually integrated with com
puter
When does E
ID m
ake sense?
●M
aking Genetic C
hanges to your flock●
Scrapie Free E
xport Flocks●
NS
IP or other P
erformance R
ecording (LambP
lan, EB
LEX
, Signet etc.)
–W
eights–
Ultrasound S
cans (Fat Depth, Loin E
ye and Pregnancy)
●D
isease Status and R
ecording–
Brucellosis
–O
PP
●B
reeding and Lambing D
ata Recording
–R
ecording labor and number of assists (P
ulling lambs)
●R
educe Labor costs
What E
ID Isn't
●C
annot track sheep at distance–
You must be w
ithin touching distance to read an EID
device
–C
ell phone collars exist prices range from $100-300 each
–S
atellite collars start at $500 each–
GP
S requires good view
of the sky●
Com
munications Infrastructure does not exist on range
●This w
ould sure be nice but not today. Give it another 15
years or so and perhaps.
Why W
e Personally N
eed EID
●W
e are an Export Q
ualified Scrapie Free flock
●W
e record NS
IP data
●W
e need detailed lambing records for our w
ork with the U
SD
A on artificial insem
ination●
We are an O
PP
Free flock and test regularly●
We are w
orking to improve our flock perform
ance on a number of
managem
ent characteristics●
Before E
ID w
e invariably misread 1-2 tags every tim
e we w
orked the sheep–
This means w
e had to put all the sheep back through to verify tag numbers
costing us time and labor.
–It's just us, w
e are unlikely to get more accurate as w
e get older!●
We are not a hobby flock but are sm
all and can be an experimental flock
What is O
pen Source?
●Free as in Freedom
not Free as in Beer●
Free to use●
Free to modify
●Leverage m
any developers worldw
ide●
Often quicker to handle new
technology●
Developers “Stand on the shoulders of giants”
The 4 Open S
ource Freedoms
●The freedom
to run the program for any purpose.
●The freedom
to study how the program
works and
change it so it does your computing as you w
ish.●
The freedom to redistribute copies.
●The freedom
to distribute copies of your modified
versions to others.
Why N
ot Window
s?
●W
e don't have any Window
s Developm
ent capability.●
Since the Desktop version w
ill be written in Java and run
under the Chrom
e browser “it should just w
ork”.●
Open Source m
eans anyone is welcom
e to fix any problem
s that occur or develop in a direction that we
don't want to.
Why N
ot Window
s Handhelds?
●W
indows Phones and Tablets is a sm
all population●
Tablets are very expensive i.e. Microsoft Surface
●Phones have lim
ited capability and failing in marketplace
●This m
ay change in future but not for now
LambTracker D
atabase
●Proper R
elational Database design
●Ease of set-up and editing
●R
obust design to allow for expansion of types of records
kept
LambTracker S
coreboard
●If w
e used LambTracker and it had bugs or didn't w
ork sheep got a point.
●If w
e used LambTracker and it w
orked properly with no
database issues LambTracker got a point.
●As of m
iddle of October
●Lam
bTracker 1662●
Sheep 584
Expand S
W for our Flock
●This is one Flock's Perspective, YM
MV
●This is a w
ork in progress. We have no idea how
long it w
ill take. We are focusing on these 4 pieces:
●D
esktop Software R
unning●
Manage Alerts for sorting and other activities
●Autom
atic input and output of NSIP data
●O
fficial Scrapie Flock Inspection Reports