Understanding Breeding entries on the CowCard
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🎓 in this guide, you will learn identify breeding outcome codes identify the technician associated with a breeding identify the breeding code associated with a breeding use the hover feature to see detailed breeding information breeding entries are displayed on cowcards and it's important to understand the information associated with each entry \<font color="#882255"> 1 \</font> breeding outcomes \<font color="#882255"> 2 \</font> technician number \<font color="#882255"> 3 \</font> breeding code \<font color="#882255"> 1 \</font> breeding outcomes p = the breeding resulted in a pregnancy o = the cow did not settle to the breeding and was found open or had a repeat breeding a = the cow settled to the breeding but later aborted r = a second bred event was entered within 48 hours the letter a is the outcome for the 8/4/25 breeding as an abort event was entered on 10/14/25 the letter r is the outcome for the 10/15/25 breeding as another bred event was entered the next day the letter o is the outcome for the 10/16/25 and 11/3/25 breedings as the cow was bred again the letter p is the outcome for the 11/25/25 breeding as the cow was declared pregnant on 1/08/25 \<font color="#882255"> 2 \</font> technician number the number 26 is the technician number entered with the bred event on 8/4/25 this cow was later bred by technician 27 on 10/15/25 and 10/16/25 technician 26 on 11/3/25 technician 28 on 11/25/25 \<font color="#882255"> 3 \</font> breeding code the letters t, s and g displayed after the technician numbers are the breeding codes entered with the bred event for this example, the farm used these breeding codes t = tai (ovsynch) s = standing heat g = activity system 💡 tip hover the cursor over the bred event to see the breeding number days in milk (dim) at breeding pen number (location) at the time of breeding technician name and number the breeding code and description click here to continue with the next guide semen inventory docid\ zksajctfaswr5snvp7eoy