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Getting started

This guide walks a producer through the steps to start using Puelas with an existing herd.

1. Set up the organization​

An admin reviews the organization data and, if you are going to make SENASA declarations, adds the establishments with their RENSPA and re-registration date.

If you work with a consignment agency, you can give it access right away: it will be able to see the herd and build the consignments.

2. Import the indicator's files​

Gather the files exported from the indicator (Tru-Test or Gallagher) and drop them all together. Puelas sorts them by itself from oldest to newest.

  • The first time, the Review step may appear: answer what each new column or value means. It won't ask again.
  • In Confirm, check the date, name and kind that Puelas inferred from each file.

:::tip Start with weaning If you have the weaning file (or the tagging record), import it first: it brings each animal's sex, breed, sire and birth, which later fill in the SENASA declarations. :::

3. Organize the herd into lots​

Create the management lots and assign the animals, choosing the lot when importing or with Move to a lot from each session.

4. Add products and record treatments​

Add the products you use, with their usual dose and withdrawal days. After each day in which something was applied, record the treatment from the session.

5. Look at the herd​

With the files loaded, Home shows pregnancy, weight gain, GDR, losses and culls. Each number opens the animals that make it up, and each animal opens its timeline.

Also check What we don't know: it shows which part of the herd hasn't been checked yet.

6. Declare devices to SENASA​

After tagging calves, an admin prepares the declaration, completes what is missing, downloads the file and uploads it to SIGSA.

7. Sell​

To sell, the producer or their consignment agency builds a consignment with the animals leaving. Beforehand, check that none is in a withdrawal period.

Routine for each chute day​

  1. Export the indicator's file.
  2. Import it into Puelas.
  3. If any product was applied, record the treatment.
  4. If the animals changed lots, move them.