Animal Type

The animal type master decides which metrics apply to a house. Fill it in once at the start; after that it is rarely touched.

When This Form Is Used

When setting the application up for the first time, before any house is created.
When the business starts keeping a new kind of animal whose recording metrics differ.

Field	What to watch
Name	The name operators recognise, for example Broiler, Layer, Dairy Cattle.
Category	Poultry or ruminant. Used for report grouping.
Track Eggs	Turn on for layers. Decides whether the egg fields appear on the daily record.
Track Weight	Turn on for animals that are weighed, such as broilers and ruminants. Drives the weight fields and the ADG report.
Track Milk	Turn on for dairy animals. Drives the milk field.
Unit	The unit the population is counted in, usually head.

Those three tracking switches are not cosmetic: a metric that is off never appears on the daily record and never enters the reports.

Houses using this animal type immediately follow its metric switches.
Changing a switch mid-cycle changes which fields are shown on the daily record, but never deletes data already saved.

Egg or weight fields missing on the daily record: check the animal type of the house behind that batch, not the batch itself.
An animal type cannot be deleted: a house still uses it. Change the animal type on that house first.

The animal type name is one field operators recognise.
The track eggs, weight, and milk switches match reality.
Its unit is consistent with the livestock product later used by mortality posting.