What is the importance of livestock records in animal breeding?

Answer 1

Records are there to identify a calf, its date of birth, birthweight (if necessary), and its dam and sire, as well as its tag number and any health records (vaccination, treatments, etc.) with that calf. All of these records, and more, are there in case a problem arises where the calf, if grown into a full-grown cow or bull (depending on the sex of the calf) needs to be traced back to its birth place or for any genetic records of its sire and dam.