User manual for online AIM facilities

Herd Keeper Manual

Animal Identification and Movements (AIM)

Online System for Herd Keepers

September 2022

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Contacts

Animal Identification Movement Division

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Administration Block

Backweston Campus

Celbridge

Co. Kildare

W23 X3PH

Telephone

Online Services Help Desk

049 4368288

AIM Division

Tagging and Registration

01-5058880

Farm to Farm & Marts

01-5058882

AIM Exits, Duplicates &

Missing/Stolen

01-5058883

Sheep / Goats

01-5058671

Website: Online Services www.agfood.ie

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Contents

Contacts ................................................................................................................................................... 2

Animal Identification and Movement System (AIM) ............................................................................... 4

How to register with www.agfood.ie .................................................................................................. 6

Logging onto www.agfood.ie .............................................................................................................. 8

Online Herd Register ............................................................................................................................. 10

How to sign up to use AIM as your Online Herd Register ................................................................. 10

Herd Profile ........................................................................................................................................... 13

How to view your Herd Profile .......................................................................................................... 13

Viewing a Retrospective Herd Profile ................................................................................................ 20

Registering an Animal ...........................................................................................................................

22

How to register an animal using the AIM system .............................................................................. 22

Embryo Transfer .................................................................................................................................... 34

How to register an animal with a genetic dam ................................................................................. 34

Certificates of

Compliance

...................................................................................................................... 39

How to obtain a Certificate of Compliance for an animal you wish to move .................................... 39

Selecting Animals by using a Filter .................................................................................................... 45

Compliance Certificate – General things to note: ......................................................................... 49

Notifying a Movement into your Online Head ......................................................................... 50

Complience Certificate-Movement to a Show. ........................................................................ 54

Check Eligibility of an Animal before a move. .......................................................................... 55

Animal Remedies Record ...................................................................................................................... 59

Sheep Census online. ............................................................................................................................. 61

Template - Animal Remedies

Records

................................................................................................... 65