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File Format 200 for Dairy Pedigree

Starting position

Field (foot note)

Format

Example

1

Record type

Character 3

200

International ID of ANIMAL

5

Breed of animal

character 3

HOL

8

Country of first registration of animal ( 1 )

character 3

CAN

11

Sex

character 1

M

12

ID number of animal ( 2 )

character 12

000000A12345

International ID of Sire of ANIMAL

25

Breed of sire of animal

character 3

HOL

28

Country of first registration of sire of animal ( 1 )

character 3

CAN

31

Sex

character 1

M

32

ID number of sire of animal ( 2 )

character 12

556912367589

International ID of Dam of ANIMAL

45

Breed of dam of animal

character 3

HOL

48

Country of first registration of dam of animal ( 1 )

character 3

CAN

51

Sex

character 1

F

52

ID number of dam of animal ( 2 )

character 12

123569874521

65

Birth date of animal ( 4 ) (YYYYMMDD)

integer 8

19870215

74

Status of animal ( 3 )

Integer 2

10

77

Birth date of first AI daughters (YYYYMMDD)

Integer 8

19890314

86

Name of animal

character 30

Cantarello

National ID of ANIMAL

117

Breed of animal

character 3

HOL

120

Country

character 3

CAN

123

Sex

character 1

M

124

ID number of animal ( 2 )

character 12

000000A12345

137

Country sending information

character 3

CAN

Character encoding: UTF-8

1. Identification in the country of first registration, as known in the country sending this information.

2. All ID numbers: Registration numbers, right justified, leading blanks as zeros.

3. Status of bull: 00 unknown; 10 bull randomly sampled through an official AI scheme; 20 other bull. Records with "20" in this field will be excluded from the international evaluation, unless type of proof is "21".

4. Check the animal's birth date

  • Has to be reported in the format YYYYMMDD
  • If you know only the year of birth then enter it as YYYY0000
  • If you know year and month of birth then enter them as YYYYMM00
  • Missing birth dates are coded as 00000000 (or blanks or a single 0)

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