Import your herd list from ScotEID to get started quickly on iLivestock for your cattle. You can then also manage your Births, Deaths, On/Off and within-business moves via iLivestock too.

IMPORTANT: Before connecting your iLivestock account with ScotEID, please make sure your primary holding is added correctly in the HOLDINGS section of your iLivestock account.

If your primary holding is not added or is added incorrectly, the connection will fail, and you'll get an error notification. See our guide on How to Add Holdings

Step 1. Go to Admin on the lower navigation menu and tap the National Databases option

Step 2. Next, tap the ScotEID (Cattle) option

Step 3. You will now be taken to the ScotEID login screen and prompted to enter your ScotEID Username and Password.

Step 4. Add in your ScotEID Username. (Note: This is the same username that you use to log in to your ScotEID account).

Step 5. Next, add your ScotEID password (Note: This is the same password you use to log in to your ScotEID account).

Next, tap the Login button, which will then connect your iLivestock account to ScotEID, and you'll see the page is then locked.

Step 6. Navigate Back to the main ScotEID (Cattle) page, by tapping back in the top left-hand corner.

Next, select Holdings under Settings

Step 7. This will take you to a new screen where you'll see a Missing and a Match selection at the top of the screen.

Under Missing, you'll see any Holdings that you own, that are registered with ScotEID, but are NOT added to your iLivestock account.

Under Match, you'll see any Holdings that you own, that are registered with ScotEID and ARE already added to your iLivestock account

To add a Missing holding, tap the plus button on the holding card

Step 8. A new screen will appear for you to complete the details of your holding - Add your holding name, CPH number, and Address and then tap Save.

Step 9. You will now see the holding move from Missing to Matched.

Continue to add any missing holdings as necessary.

Step 10. Note: if you already have a holding under Match, this will automatically be connected.

Once your iLivestock account is connected, you can import your herd list with all their information from ScotEID.

Step 1. From the ScotEID home page settings menu, select Get Cattle

Step 2. The next screen will show a list of cattle currently on your ScotEID account holding/s

Step 3. You can scroll up and down the list to view them all.

Step 4. If you are happy with the list, tap the Selector option at the top right of the screen to start Selection mode

Step 5. You'll then see that the list has a selection option against each animal on the left-hand side of its animal card.

Step 6. You can now select the Select All option, at the top right of the screen, to highlight all the available cattle. Alternatively, choose individual cattle from the list or Select All and then de-select certain animals. When you are happy with your selection, tap Add at the bottom left of the screen.

Step 7. A confirmation pop-up will now show; if you are happy with the selection, tap Confirm.

Step 8. The system will now begin to import your herd list from ScotEID

Step 9. You may be left with some animals that state they are missing information.

Tap the animal/s to open the animal information.

Step 10. The information screen will highlight the missing information for the animal, this will always relate to holdings, when in Get Cattle mode.

This animal is on a CPH holding that has not yet been added to iLivestock. It also shows that the animal birth CPH is not added to iLivestock (we'll return to that section in a moment).

To add the missing holding that this animal is on, tap the Plus Button next to the Current CPH shown in red.

Step 11. This will take you to the Holdings screen, where you will see a list of holdings currently on ScotEID but not added to iLivestock. Tap the holding that the animal is related to, to begin adding this holding to iLivestock.

Step 12. Complete the holding information for the name and address.

Step 13. When all the information for the holding is added, tap Save at the bottom of the screen.

Step 14. You may find that these animal/s have a further warning on their animal cards. Tap the animal card to view data updates that may be required.

Step 15. The animal information shows that the birth CPH for this animal is present on ScotEID but is not recorded on iLivestock. The birth CPH will have to be added as a third-party holding on iLivestock, to be stored against the animal on iLivestock.

Tap the plus button next to the birth holding to add the holding as a third-party holding

OR

Ignore this and tap Add on the lower left of the screen, to add the animal regardless of this information missing.

Note: Birth CPH is not a mandatory piece of information for animals already registered with ScotEID. If you purchase animals regularly, you may wish NOT TO add a list of purchase third-party holdings to your iLivestock account

Step 16. If you tap the plus button next to the Birth CPH you'll be taken to the Holdings screen to add the Third Party Holding information of the Birth CPH.

Step 17. Complete the CPH name and address.

Step 18. Scroll to the bottom and tap Save to save the information.

Step 19. This will take you back to the Get Cattle animal screen, displaying that no further information is missing. You can now tap Add to add the animal to iLivestock.

Step 20. The Add Animal confirmation pop-up will appear. Tap Confirm to add the animal.

Step 21. A short confirmation banner will then appear at the bottom of the screen to confirm that this action has been completed.

Repeat the same steps with any similar animals with missing information that you want to add.

Online: Use the chat icon in Admin on the app or bottom right on the web dashboard