getting things done
Okay, after a couple of failed attempts to synchronise I now have Mindapro back (had to use the upgrade button but it only took a couple minutes, if that), the ancestry information, and some of the health/mating/calving/lactation data for my cows.
For some reason this information only goes back one year – all health information, matings &c prior to July 08 have vanished. The diary view is still blank because I haven’t added any new information yet and the old is still vanished. The groups I created are just as vanished as ever.
All notes I created regarding names, shed behaviour have likewise gone.
Looks like it’s time to start again and in the meantime cast around for another programme I can use that isn’t going to vanish everything next time I move farms – or at any random time. I’ve had a couple of goes at building an animal database over the years, but the databasing programmes that come with the computer are almost useless in that respect. I wish I could remember what programme it was we used in college, because it could do a lot of what I’m looking for.
I’m going to have to see if I can find that water leak today, I reckon. Bomb-washed the plant and haven’t been able to rinse it. I’m going to have to find my Fonterra username again and try to get back into that site, see when they’re next sending a tanker past my way. I’m catching 80 – 100 litres a milking aside from what I need for the calves.
Maybe I’ll need to go the old-fashioned way and phone them.
Definitely we can’t start the milking season without water coming into the dairy.
