Your Window menu provides access to your Assistant and Cow List.  These two features are described in the following section.

Assistant

The MISTRO Farm Assistant allows you to get audio visual tutorials on just about any facet of the program.  Just click the plus sign next to the area you wish to display, then either double click on the tutorial you wish to run, or click on it once and press the Go button.  The tutorial will then launch.  The tutorials are executable files, so if you have the  firewall, virus scanning or adware options on your computer set at a high level you may need to relax these to run the tutorials.

Cow list

Your cow list displays a list of the cows in your herd based on the conditions you have specified in your filter toolbar.

The left column indicates each female’s current status (using the colour code described below the columns). Green means the cows are on the go and milking. Yellow means they are getting reading to go (dry), and red means dead (or sold). The blue shades indicate replacement stock and purple indicates cows that have been transferred to another centre.

The next column lists the cows in order as specified on the filter toolbar. The total number of records located in the Cow list is indicated at the top right of your filter toolbar.