[Babase] Matured BY dates for females

Leah Gerber lgerber at duke.edu
Tue Sep 5 14:41:54 EDT 2006


Hello all,

I just realized that may have been a false alarm. I just noticed that my 
copy of Biograph was older. When I FTP'ed earlier the transfer did not 
work. I will check again with the new Biograph. Sorry about that.

Leah

Leah Gerber wrote:
> Hello Tabby (maybe Catherine),
>
> I am wondering about matured dates for a few females that show up with 
> MANY MANY conversion errors. In the newest version of Babase there are 
> no dates for KUP ,LUL, and PRE. Have the matured by dates for females 
> all been incorporated yet? Should these three individuals have a 
> matured by date? These three show up in mounts, consorts, and 
> ejaculations but have no matured date in biograph.
>
> Thanks,
> Leah
>
> Catherine Markham wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wanted to document that I finished the last pass of reviewing 
>> matured by dates for females with Jeanne this afternoon.  The first 
>> step in this process was to determine all females in BIOGRAPH that 
>> had no matured date (matured = {}).  From this list, we focused on 
>> females older than 3 years so as to exclude young females that were 
>> extremely unlikely to have reached sexual maturity.
>>
>> The following broad patterns emerged for females that were 
>> justifiably had no matured dates:
>>
>> 1.  Females who appear on sexskin scoring datasheets but remain flat 
>> and “B” up until their death dates.
>> 2.  Females who die before appearing on sexskin scoring datasheets.
>>
>> For both scenarios above, NO maturity dates were entered into Babase. 
>> These females died before reaching puberty.
>>
>> All other females were investigated on a case by case basis.  For 
>> most, the earliest date indicating sexual maturity was 178 days 
>> (average gestation) prior to the birth of their first documented 
>> offspring.
>>
>> Details for all entered/changed matured BY dates are documented in 
>> the Babase change log.  All additions/corrections have been made to 
>> the database (since we're still using the FoxPro system as the 
>> "working" version of Babase, I added matured dates to 
>> BIOGRAPH.matured and coded all BY dates with an "E" in 
>> BIOGRAPH.mstatus).
>>
>> As a final query, Jeanne and I also checked for females who had 
>> matured ON dates already entered in the database but the particular 
>> date fell during a time of spotty monitoring for a study group.  We 
>> referred to the datasheets and, in most cases, decided to enter the 
>> matured ON date as a matured BY date.  Again, details are documented 
>> in the Babase change log.
>>
>> Thanks and let me know if anyone has questions/follow-up,
>> Catherine
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