How to search for animals' details in NAIT

Ways to search for animals

The Registered animals tab for your NAIT number displays a list of animals currently registered at, or moved onto, your location.

There are 3 ways to search for animals after you log in to your NAIT account:

Quick find.
By typing in the NAIT visual ID or RFID tag number.
Search and filter.

The results only show animals:

registered to your NAIT location number
that have the information you're searching for recorded in your NAIT account.

1. Quick find

Follow these steps.

1 Select your NAIT location number on the NAIT home page.
2 Enter full or partial NAIT RFID or visual tag number into the search field.
3 The results show any animals registered to your location that involve the numbers or letters you entered. For example, to locate animal ABCD-15-123 you could search 123 in the quick find. As well as the number you're looking for, the results would also return other tags with 123 in them, such as 982 000123456789.

2. NAIT visual ID or RFID tag number

You can search by using the tag numbers in the following ways:

Enter the complete RFID or visual ID tag numbers separated by a comma or new line.
If you've scanned the tags, you can upload a file of RFID numbers, by selecting Upload file with tag numbers.

How to upload tag files

3. Search and filter

If you don’t know the specific RFID or visual ID tags you're looking for, or want to locate a specific group of animals, you can use the search and filter tools to narrow down your list.

Use the dropdown menus to filter by:

animal type
gender
status
production type.

The Tag visual ID search allows you to narrow down your search for animals with a specific birth-tag sequence range. Enter information on the visual ID tag to further filter the results.

The search and filter tools only return animal records that have the specific information you're searching for.

Adding more filters

Select More search options to search for animals:

with a recorded birth date or registration date within a specific date range
with a recorded death date within a specific date range — make sure the Animal status search field is set to Dead or All to display results
moved to your NAIT location — enter the date range of the last movement, or if you want to find animals moved from a specific NAIT location, enter the sender's NAIT location number.

If you want search results to include animals you've recorded in a sending movement from your NAIT number that aren't yet confirmed by the receiving PICA, check the tick box below Sending NAIT number.

Combining the search and filter tools with more search options

You can use any of the search and filter tools, and more search options in combination to get a result. For example, to locate animals received from a specific NAIT location number in 2024 that you have since recorded as ‘dead’, you would enter:

status = Dead
last movement = 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024
sending NAIT location number = xxxxxx.

Keeping animal information up to date

Navigating the registered animals list in NAIT

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In this guide, we will go through navigating the registered animals list on your NAIT number.

Starting on the homepage, select the Manage NAIT activities button on your NAIT number. From here, you will find a number of different actions you can perform. We'll choose Animal under View, find and update. This will take you to the list of all animals you have registered against your NAIT number.

The NAIT system defaults to only show alive animals. If you wish to see animals with a different status, you'll need to filter.

If you select the plus symbol next to an animal, it will open a panel with a few quick details such as the status, last movement and production type.

If you tick the box beside an animal, once it turns blue, this means it's selected. You can then choose to edit selected animals to perform actions like changing its details or updating its status. With one or more animals selected, you can also choose to create a sending movement.

If you wish to replace a tag for an animal, this can only be done one animal at a time.

If you want to search for specific animals in your list, you can use the search functions above. Quick find allows you to provide part of a tag number and will find all animals that have those numbers or letters associated.

The larger search field requires the full tag number to locate the animal.

There are also filters that you can place on your registered animals list that will only show animals that meet those criteria. This is helpful if you farm both cattle or deer, or perhaps multiple production types.

You can also filter by date ranges if you're looking for animals received or updated around specific times.

If you want more details about an animal, you can press the View button beside it and be taken to a page of all the registered information.

This will include any movements the animal has been included in.

When you want to navigate back to your registered animals list, you can find it on the left-hand side of your screen. And that is how to find all animals registered against your NAIT number.

Please remember — all animals need to be tagged and registered before 180 days of birth, or before their first off-farm movement, whichever comes first. Thank you for supporting traceability and disease management in New Zealand.