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movements are entered directly to their website or as a ‘Package User’ to use a 3rd party package such as Flock Manager to submit movements with read only access to their website. Please note that ARAMS will either allow farmers to register as an ‘ARAMS Portal User’ i.e. Make sure that you select the option to be a Package User. Make sure you take a note of these as you will need to enter them into the Flock Manager program. You will create an account which will include your user name (usually your email address) which will generate a password which will be emailed to you. In order to use the electronic movement option within Flock Manager, you should first register with the ARAMS service by going to:

The option has now been added to send movement details to ARAMS electronically via the Flock Manager program.Īs a farmer you may either be sending the ‘on’ and ‘off’ movements, for example, when animals are moved from your holding to another farmer’s OR you may just be confirming someone else’s movement onto your holding – providing they have done an off movement – for example buying animals via a market. The ARAMS printout is available from Reports – Movement Documents within the program.

The seller keeps one copy (yellow) but the other copies go with the animals – ARAMS (white), destination copy (pink) and the haulier (blue). When moving animals, it is the recipient of the animals who is responsible for notifying ARAMS by sending the white paper copy of the form to them. In April 2014, the Animal Reporting and Movement Service (ARAMS) took over the processing of all sheep movements from each local authority in England. Please ensure all information is read from the device before you update.ĪRAMS – Electronic movement submissions (England only) This must be updated at the same time as the main program.

DOWNLOADING FLOCK TO YOUR DEVICES UPDATE

If you have a hand held device please also update your Virtual Stick Module

ARAMS (England) – notify movements electronicallyĪ full list of enhancements can be found in the Help files in the program and during the download process.

Treatments – ability to copy an existing treatment.

Animal Movements Report – all movements from a particular date.

Animal Summary Report – total number of animals on any date by holding/year/breed.

Stick Reader – read and summarise slaughter tags by flock mark.

Stick Reader – allocate breed and category to a tag for future use.

Movement options – redesigned to allow multiple entries in the same movement.

Flock Inspector – view running totals of each category by year.

Home Page – overview of animal numbers by category/holding/year.

Please contact Farmplan to discuss upgrading your PC if this is applicable.

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*Please note – Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 are no longer supported by Microsoft, meaning future versions of Flock Manager will not install onto Windows 7 machines. Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems only* You will also need to make sure the program has been closed. Before you start the installation process check that your licence is up to date and that you have taken a backup of your data.

You will also find answers and useful information under the FAQs tab.Įxisting users – For more information about this update please read the Enhancement guide carefully before updating.

DOWNLOADING FLOCK TO YOUR DEVICES MANUALS

These can be found under the Guides & manuals tab. New users – For more information about Flock Manager read the Getting started and Enhancement guides.

Downloading flock to your devices