Other animals cost

The Other animals cost activity is used to arrange payment or labour for a cost (e.g. vet costs, dips and vaccinations) and uses the companion componentsActivity fee and Labour requirement to arrange resources based on the units fixed, or per head of the selected individuals One of these activities needs to be provided for each cost. Use filtering to specify the individuals this payment relates.

You can also use Activity fee on most other animal activities to also manage associated costs for you, especially where on the activity and the time of action knows the details of the individuals being treated. In these situations you are able to add a Activity fee component below the controlling parent activity.

The following parameters are used to define this activity

Transaction Category

A category label for this activity used for grouping transactions (see Resource ledger report for more details).

As some activities are generic and can apply to a range of tasks or costs, these Activities use the TransactionCategory property to identify the action in any transaction ledger. For example, there may be multiple herd tasks and costs associated with managing a breed and each of these should provide a Category to describe them such as "Vet" could be associated with all tasks and costs relating to vet services.

Insufficient resources available action

This parameter will determine what action is taken if there are insufficient resources to perform this activity.

You can report an error and stop the simulation, skip this activity or use the resources available. See What to do when resources are limiting

The following components will add additional functionality to this activity

Labour Requirement

Any Labour requirement will include labour allocation to perform this activity based on any specified identifiers and units and may limit the outcomes if supported and OnPartialResourcesAvailableAction set to UseAvailableWithImplications

Activity Fee

Any Activity fee will include financial costs based on any specified identifiers and units and may limit the outcomes if supported and OnPartialResourcesAvailableAction set to UseAvailableWithImplications

Timers

This activity will occur in every time-step unless timers are used to restrict this activity (see Using timers).

This activity is performed during the Get Resources Required event of the setup and time-step events. This is the standard, monthly clock event by which CLEM activities request resources and perform actions based on the resources provided, therefore this activity will compete with most activities in the time-step with their location in the simulation tree determining the order they are processed (this includes activities located on other CLEM and Market components). If this activity relies on another activity having been performed, or other activities rely on this activity in the time-step, ensure it has been performed in the correct order based on it's position in the simulation tree.

Herd costs are defined on all individuals of the current herd considering any filter groups above the activity.

Individuals considered

This task will be performed on individuals meeting the following filter rules

Any other animals

You can further customise this selection by adding Other Animal Groups