Manuals:Animal Idenification

Training materials

Powerpoint for Animal Identification

SmartCards for IB and Animal Identification

Message formats

Advice about Owner IDs

• The owner ID is the owner's mobile phone number.
• To make life easier for users the owner's ID can be shortened to be just the last few digits of the phone number - as long as it remains unique for all the owners in the sender's area of responsibility.

Register a livestock owner

DP [Name] [Location Code] {Owner identification}

• Message is sent by a registered inseminator or para-vet.
• Message always starts with DP
• Owner name
  • Full name of the livestock owner including correct capitals and a space between each part of the name.
• Location code of the livestock owner, to the desa level (8 digits).

Confirm registration by livestock owner

KDP [PIN]

• Message is sent from the livestock owner's phone within 20 minutes of receiving the PIN code during registration.
• Message always starts with KDP
• PIN code which is sent to the telephone of the person registering the livestock owner (usually inseminator or para-vet).

• This process captures the correct phone number of the newly registered owner and confirms that he/she is willing to participate in the system.

Register an individual animal

DH [Farmer ID] ([Animal identification] [Species code] [Sex] [Age]...)

• Message always starts with DH
• Owner ID
• Animal ID
• Species/breed code
• Sex
• Age - in years. If it is possible to define the age of the animal more accurately it is acceptable to use decimal places. For example, an animal thought to be three and a half years old would be reported as 3.5.

• Breed codes for cattle can be queried by DKB SP.

Change ownership of an animal

• Message always starts with JH.
• Owner ID (Seller)
• New owner ID (Buyer)
• Animal ID
• If several animals are involved in the same transfer of ownership then the Animal IDs of all the animals can be listed, each separated by a space.

Change animal ID

GI [Farmer ID] [Old Animal ID] [New Animal ID]

• Message always starts with GI.
• Owner ID
• Animal ID
• New animal ID

Report the fate of an animal

AH [Owner ID] [Animals Id] [Animal Disposal]

• Message always starts with AH.
• Owner ID
• Animal ID
• Code for fate
  • M = Dead
  • U = Stolen
  • D = Slaughtered

System query

Individual owner herd listing

DHP {Farmer ID}

• Message always starts with DHP.
• Owner ID

Individual animal information

IH [Owner ID] [Animal ID]

• Message always starts with IH.
• Owner ID
• Animal ID