How Vet Lists Work

use pulse or dairycomp to create your vet lists with a special vetlist command for dairycomp lists, adding the \k switch to the commands sends them to pulse the flexibility of the system allows you to schedule the vet lists to generate on days the veterinarian is scheduled to visit, or to generate and send them on an as needed basis you can then process your lists in dc on mobile and monitor them in the web version of pulse docid\ yk2n02jjhzolxspkwzow5 see complete tasks docid\ ouqpn6bznefzozbgfompv to learn more deciding which animals need to be presented to the veterinarian on herd check day can be a laborious task, particularly in large herds animals need to be grouped and examined for a variety of reasons — post calving checks, pregnancy checks, problem animals, and other reasons for these reasons, vas has designed a unique setup of veterinary parameters in our dairycomp vet lists feature so that you can decide which animals need to be checked and when, saving valuable time as well as increasing efficiency on the dairy the vet list is a special form of worklist docid\ uupc6krkxurknojf0fyvb that is generated in dairycomp and synced to pulse, where you can then process it in the mobile app dairycomp creates vet lists by going through the cowfile, checking each animal record with the vetcode conditions, and determining if that animal needs to be seen by the veterinarian a list of animals is then established with a specific veterinary code and descriptive reason ( ) for veterinary examination using a "veterinary code table" as a guide, dairycomp searches through the cowfile to determine if any of the veterinary codes should be put in the animal's record for an examination the dairycomp vetlist command sets a code based on the conditions of each vetcode for example, veterinary code frsh will be set for all animals whose code ( ) is 2 (fresh) and is greater than 25 similarly, will be for animals whose (bred) and is greater than 40 see vetcodes docid\ u3gtf6cjzszpuz6tegckl for more information on the standard dairycomp vetcodes note see the additional notes below about veterinary codes and how they are set in order within the table it is important to remember that the dairycomp vetlist command sets and resets veterinary codes an exception is \ variable{key="vc" type="glossary"}=1, which manually flags an animal for a veterinary check and is not reset the dairycomp vetlist command sets veterinary codes by first looking at the animal's record and seeing if a veterinary code exists if there is no veterinary code present, the program examines the items in the animal's record to see if they meet any of the conditions in the veterinary code table (such as days in milk and or fresh), or in the command abbreviation (such as =2 4) three events can set veterinary codes directly; these are check, which sets the veterinary code to 1 (chck), and either heat or bred when they occur on a pregnant animal, which sets the code to 6 ( ) the veterinary code is set to the first one that meets the criteria in the numbered veterinary code table to the first point, extraneous veterinary codes will produce errors in the vet list if they are left uncorrected this can happen if animals are missed or the dairycomp vetlist command is mistakenly run it may become necessary to clear veterinary codes by entering vc=0 for vc>1 vc<>6 and other useful criteria for animals containing unwanted codes basically, veterinary codes are left alone if they already exist they will be in an animal's record if they were set by the events check, bred, or heat or if they are left there as rechecks or missed animals from the previous veterinary examination if no code is present, the dairycomp vetlist command looks at the animal's record to try to meet the criteria set in the veterinary code table important only one veterinary code can be assigned to each animal, and this is done on a "first come, first served" basis either the code already exists or, using the veterinary code table, the first criteria met will determine the code for the animal for example, let's say an animal has been bred 43 days ago and has a heat interval of 8 days the veterinary code 3 (preg) will be set in her record since preg is above cyst in the veterinary code table