Group Import your animals from your EID Stick Reader.

Scanning and importing new or existing animals to create groups, then subsequent actions, is fast and effective way of adding and managing your animals to the app.

You can do this as an initial import of your animals and then afterwards create subsequent groups of existing and/or new animals to manage and organise animals.

Step 1. Once your EID reader is connected (see How to pair your EID Reader to iLivestock) and you are on the Equipment screen, you'll see an option to 'Get Groups' this is where you can import animals from your stick reader from scanning sessions

Tap 'Get Groups'

Step 2. This will generate a list of your session names on a new screen

Step 3. Tap the session you wish to import to select it. A blue tick will appear next to the selected session

Next tap 'Import' at the top right of the screen

Step 4. Now Select Species - this workflow is more relevant for sheep as the EID is the unique identifier, where as cattle are likely identified by their passport number - see Adding Cattle (below) for best practice for your cattle.

Step 5. Now confirm if you want these animals to go into a New or Existing Group. If this is your first import you may need to choose New Group as no other groups may exist.

Note!: All stick reader Get Groups imports, will always create an Auto Group, so you'll never lose track of what and when you added animals this way. Auto groups can be found by going to Groups on the lower navigation menu and Auto on the upper menu options.

Step 6. If you choose Existing Group a list of your groups will appear for you to select from.

Step 7. If you choose New Group a new page will appear on the screen for you to complete the Group Name and add any relevant group notes.

Step 8. Once you have completed the relevant fields, press 'Save' at the top right of the screen, to start the import.

Step 9. An Import confirmation notice will pop up upon completion and will advise of any necessary import details

The grab number 9, confirms 12 of the 14 animals selected were added to the group

the next notification should give me an indication of why.

Step 10. If any animals were not imported or added to the group for any reason a notification will pop up to explain why.

The grab number 10, shows 2 animals were not imported as they were already on my account and registered as cattle, so can not be added to a sheep group.

Step 11. You can now go to Groups in the bottom menu and select sheep in the top menu to see the group you created, you can tap the chevron to view the animals in a list.

Step 12. Back on the Equipment screen (lower menu), you now have the ability to CLEAR ALL SESSIONS from EID READER if so desired.

Note!: Please only do this if you are happy all sessions have been uploaded correctly and are now no longer needed on the stick reader.

The Import will also only show the EID number and VID and will not contain the DOB, gender, or breed which can be updated for the group once imported.

See steps below on how to update the animal details on a group / group import

All stick reader Get Groups imports, will always create an Auto Group, so you'll never lose track of what and when you added animals this way.

Auto groups can be found by going to Groups on the lower navigation menu and Auto on the upper menu options.

When your animals have been allocated to a group, its easy then to update the group animal details using the 'Settings on ALL group animals' feature.

This action can be done on any group, Auto groups, Sheep groups, Cattle groups or even your permanent groups if required.

Step 1: Find and open the group and then tap the Action button to open the Group Action menu

Step 2: Select Settings on all group animals

Step 3: Now select Set group ON Holding to allocate the group to the relevant holding.

Note!: If you want to record a Move On, it best to set them on the Third Party holding that you purchased them from. If just adding animals that are already on farm, simply select the relevant Your Holding

Step 4: If adding directly to your own holding, select the relevant holding under My Holdings

Step 5: Your animals will now be allocated to the holding you have selected. You can open each animal and verify the location by checking the holding details at the bottom of each animal summary.

Step 4: If adding to a third party holding, select the relevant holding under Third Party

Step 5: Your animals will now be allocated to the holding you have selected. Note as this is a Third Party, your animals will be greyed out (meaning they are OFF farm)You can open each animal and verify the location by checking the holding details at the bottom of each animal summary.

To update the rest of your animal details, repeat the steps 1 & 2 and then choose from the relevant Group Settings to add the - Breed, Gender, DOB, Management Tag and so on from the list of options below:

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