Welcome to Cattle Age Calculator
by Running Deer Farms


This utility will calculate the age of an animal given its birth date. It can also calculate the due date of a calf given the date of breeding.

Have you ever found yourself at a cattle sale looking at the sale catalog and trying to calculate the age of the animal in the ring? With Cattle Age Calculator you can go through the sale catalog before the sale and calculate the age of each animal so you need only glance at your notes to determine the age of the animal in the ring.

How often have you found yourself tiring to remember how to read those clumsy gestation tables? With Cattle Age Calculator, determining the due date of an animal is a snap.





Calculate the Age of an Animal

	Calculating the age of an animal is simple and quick. Just follow these steps:
	Launch the Cattle Age Calculator from the Start menu. The Reference Date field will automatically set to your systems current date. If you are calculating ages for a future sale and want to use the sales date, simply change the date as desired. In the Cow's Date of Birth field enter the animal's birth date. Press Calculate and the animal's age will display in the Cow's Age field. The age is displayed as the number of years, months, and days. To calculate another, press Clear Fields and enter the birth date of that animal.
	For those of you who prefer not to use the mouse:
	The TAB key will move the cursor from field to field. In the Cow's Date of Birth field, the ENTER key will move through the date fields. ENTER in the YEAR date field will automatically calculate the age and return you to the MONTH field. This saves the extra step of pressing Calculate. As you enter a field, using ENTER or TAB in place of the mouse, the contents of the field are highlighted allowing a new value to be entered without clearing the previous value. This saves the extra step of pressing Clear Fields.

Calculate the Due Date of an Animal

	Calculating the due date of an animal is also simple and quick. Just follow these steps:
	Launch the Cattle Age Calculator from the Start menu. In the Date Bred field enter the date the animal was bred. Press Calculate and the animal's due date will display in the Cow's Due Date field. The due date is displayed as a date in month, day, and year format. To calculate another, press Clear Fields and enter the date bred for that animal.
	For those of you who prefer not to use the mouse:
	The TAB key will move the cursor from field to field. In the Date Bred field, the ENTER key will move through the date fields. ENTER in the YEAR date field will automatically calculate the due date and return you to the MONTH field. This saves the extra step of pressing Calculate. As you enter a field, using ENTER or TAB in place of the mouse, the contents of the field are highlighted allowing a new value to be entered without clearing the previous value. This saves the extra step of pressing Clear Fields.

We hope that you enjoy this utility and get some good use out of it. As always, we are open to suggestions and comments. Comments

Trouble Shooting

As with any software, users sometimes run into problems when using it. So we have added some common problems and their solutions.
	Q:	When I try to calculate dates, the results are incorrect.
	A:	The date functions used by this program reference the short date format of the operation system. The program expects the short date format to be set to the US standard mm/dd/yyyy. If the format is set to dd/mm/yyyy or another format, the dates will be calculated incorrectly.
	Q:	How can I tell what version of the program I am running?
	A:	Select Help, then About from the menu in the program and the About dialog will appear. In this dialog you will see the version number. You obtain the latest version point your web browser to http://www.runningdeerfarms.com and go to the software downloads page.