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Mob(Herd) Setup - Advanced Livestock Setup

How to refine your stock class, enterprise, and stock group setup to meet your record keeping needs.

This article explains in detail how to setup your mobs/herds in MaiaGrazing from start to finish.

Setting up your livestock requires 4 separate steps.

Step 1 - Setting Up Stock Classes

  • Click the cog wheel Cog Wheel in the top right-hand corner of the screen, to open the Settings Dashboard.
  • Click 'Stock Class Setup'.
  • Click the data box and enter the name of your stock class.  Stock classes can be anything that you would like them to be.

  • Click the drop-down box to select the species of animal.

  • Click 'Add New Stock Class' to add another stock class.

  • Repeat until you have all of your stock classes setup.

  • Click 'Save & Close' when you are finished.

 

You are now ready to set up your Enterprises.

Step 2. Setup Your Enterprises

Enterprises are a way of separating different streams of income in MaiaGrazing. You can add as many Enterprises as you like – the sole purpose is for you to be able to compare the performance of these over time.

You must have at least one enterprise.

For example, if you run a breeding and fattening operation and want to separate the kg/lb produced and $ between the two, then create two Enterprises. This goes for different livestock as well – many will have a Sheep Breeding Enterprise, Sheep Fattening Enterprise, Cattle Breeding Enterprise and Cattle Finishing Enterprise.

 
  • Click the cog wheel Cog Wheel in the top right-hand corner of the screen, to open the Settings Dashboard.
  • Click 'Enterprise Setup'

  • Click 'Enterprise Name' Enter name of enterprise.

  • Click 'Add New Enterprise' button to enter additional enterprises.

  • Delete enterprise during setup by hovering your mouse to the right of the enterprise name and Click the blue x Blue x when it appears.
  • Click 'Save & Close' when you have finished setting up your enterprises.

You are now ready to set up your stock groups.

Step 3. Setup Stock Groups

What are stock groups? Stock group is a mapping between Stock Class and Enterprise. For example, you may have "Steers" as a stock class. You may have a trading enterprise and breeding enterprise.

In order to be able to keep these animals accounted for correctly under each enterprise there is a need to be able to allocate them to their correct enterprise. In stock group set up you can map "Steers" to the "Trading" enterprise and name these "Steers Trading". You can then map "Steers" to the "Breeding" enterprise and name these "Steers Breeding". When you set up your Mobs/Herds you can then have a mix of "Steers Trading" and "Steers Breeding" in the same mob/herd. This will allow you to allocate costs and track enterprise performance more accurately. This is explained in Introduction to Livestock Setup.

 
  • Click the cog wheel Cog Wheel in the top right-hand corner of the screen.  To open the Settings Dashboard.
  • Click 'Stock Group Setup'

  • Click 'Add New Stock Group' located at the bottom of the list.

  • Click the drop-down box under the 'Stock Class' column. Select the name of the stock class to be matched with the enterprise.

  • Click the drop-down box under 'Enterprise'. Select the Enterprise name to be matched with the stock class.

  • Click the data entry box under 'Stock Group Name'. Type in a name that is relevant to your operation.

  • Repeat until all your stock groups have been set up.

  • Click 'Save & Close' when finished.

 

These stock groups will now be available for selection when you are setting up mobs/herds or performing purchases etc.

 

You are now ready to set up your Mobs/Herds.

Step 4. Setting up Mobs/Herds

Before you start: You will need your livestock inventory numbers on hand.

What numbers to use: It is recommended that Mobs/Herds numbers need to be set up as they were at the first day of your commencement month in the program.

  • Click the cog wheel Cog Wheel in the top right-hand corner of the screen.  To open the Settings Dashboard.

  • Click 'Mob/Herd Setup'.

  • Click 'Add Mob/Herd'. This will open a new Mob/Herd, it will appear at the top of the Mobs/Herds name. MaiaGrazing gives this Mob/Herd a default name mob 1/herd 1.

  • Select 'mob 1/herd 1'.

  • Click the data entry box underneath 'The name of this Herd:" to update the name of mob/herd.

  • Click the coloured dot to choose the colour that this mob/herd will be in your grazing chart.

  • Click the drop-down box under 'Which paddock/pasture is this Mob/Herd in?'

  • Select the paddock/pasture to allocate this herd to. If you don't wish to allocate a paddock/pasture yet leave this blank. Once this mob/herd is saved it will appear in your mob list with the text 'Needs Moving to Paddock/Pasture' beside it.

 

You are now ready to add the stock groups that exist in this herd/mob

  • Click the data entry box under under 'Stock Description'. Type over 'Stock Item 1.' with the label for these animals.*

  • Click the drop-down box under 'Stock Group'. Select stock group to be added to this mob/herd.

  • Click the data entry box under 'Head'. Enter the number of head.

  • Click the data entry box under 'Weight'. Enter the average weight of these animals.

  • Click the data entry box under 'kg.dm/head, lb.dm/head, AU, LSU, DSE)'. Enter feed demand rating.

  • Click EITHER the data entry box under 'value/kg' OR the data entry box under 'value/head'. Enter EITHER the average value per kilo/lb OR the average value per head.**
  • Click 'Add Stock' if you want to add another stock group to this Mob/Herd.
  • Click 'Save' when all animals have been entered for this mob/herd.
  • Repeat above steps if you wish to add another mob/herd.
  • Deleting a stock group line from mob/herd.  Hover over the stock group a blue x Blue x will appear Select.  This will only work for stock groups that have just been set up.
  • Click 'Save & Close' to return to Settings Dashboard.
MaiaGrazing Mob/Herd Setup


*Stock Description = an independent label that you can you use to add more detail. For example Joe Bloggs might have 10 Angus Heifers on agistment and 10 Brahman Heifers and I want to see Joe Bloggs 10 Angus heifer listed separately from my own Angus Heifers in my reports.

If you don't want to use this label just change the "Stock item 1" so that it matches your stock group name.

**Value = It is recommended to use $/kg or $/head based on current market value – this feeds into inventory value and will be the opening value for your Stock Flow Report.

Your mobs/herds are now setup in the program. Click the 'Operations' tab to start your MaiaGrazing journey!