X'Aim is for everybody
X'Aim, as an animal tracking and inbreeding avoidance on-line software tool is for everybody that would like to keep track of their animals, whether they have many animals or just a few, whether they are livestock, pets or conservation species.
All you need to know about your animals is their sire and dam, and that each identifier (or tag) is unique; that is that no other animal has the same number or name. If you do have more than one animal called "Mary", just name them Mary1 and Mary2 to distinguish between them (now they're unique).
By having each animal with a sire and a dam, you have enough to build up your pedigree history. X'Aim does this automatically for you, adding sires and dams to your animal listing. Check out the easy animal adding and editing and other features of X'Aim at: http://www.xaim.co.nz/tour.html, or watch a quick video tour of X'Aim: http://www.xaim.co.nz/video.html.
The pedigree is essential for estimating inbreeding of each animal. X'Aim does this for you showing each animal's inbreeding coefficient on the animal listing page. When you're ready for mating you can get X'Aim to generate a mating list that has recommended matings to avoid inbreeding. It also sets up the matings to reduce future inbreeding by maintaining a larger gene pool. This is why it is important to consider all the matings at once, not just one at a time.
X'Aim is available now. Sign up for free! In New Zealand: http://www.xaim.co.nz or at http://www.xaim.com.au for the rest of the World.
All you need to know about your animals is their sire and dam, and that each identifier (or tag) is unique; that is that no other animal has the same number or name. If you do have more than one animal called "Mary", just name them Mary1 and Mary2 to distinguish between them (now they're unique).
By having each animal with a sire and a dam, you have enough to build up your pedigree history. X'Aim does this automatically for you, adding sires and dams to your animal listing. Check out the easy animal adding and editing and other features of X'Aim at: http://www.xaim.co.nz/tour.html, or watch a quick video tour of X'Aim: http://www.xaim.co.nz/video.html.
The pedigree is essential for estimating inbreeding of each animal. X'Aim does this for you showing each animal's inbreeding coefficient on the animal listing page. When you're ready for mating you can get X'Aim to generate a mating list that has recommended matings to avoid inbreeding. It also sets up the matings to reduce future inbreeding by maintaining a larger gene pool. This is why it is important to consider all the matings at once, not just one at a time.
X'Aim is available now. Sign up for free! In New Zealand: http://www.xaim.co.nz or at http://www.xaim.com.au for the rest of the World.
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