Herds, ranches and families
Production records for animals that are not going to a fair
Gain against feed cost is gain against feed cost. The app was shaped alongside youth exhibitors, but nothing in the arithmetic cares whether an animal is headed for a show ring, a freezer or another season on the place.
What it records for a herd
Weight and gain per animal
Weigh-ins with the method recorded, lifetime and recent average daily gain, and a chart that makes a stall obvious before a scale ticket does.
What a pen costs to feed
Feed purchases and what a pound of gain actually costs, so a ration change can be judged on a figure rather than an impression.
Breeding through the year
Bred, due, birthed, rebred. An expected birth is given as a window rather than a date, because animals do not read the table.
Cost per head
Purchase price, feed, vet, supplies and income, categorised and dated, with break-even worked out per animal.
Hours actually worked
Work sessions across several animals at once, so labour going into a group is recorded rather than estimated at the end of the year.
Health and treatments
Treatments with dates, and withdrawal clearances tracked as reminders so a date is not worked out from memory.
Why a phone-first, local-only tool suits a herd
Herd software usually assumes an office, a subscription and a signal. None of those are reliably present at a working chute.
- No signal needed. Records are written to the phone, so a weigh day in a back pasture logs exactly like one in the yard.
- No account, no seats, no renewal. One purchase, and the records are on your device rather than on someone’s server.
- Backfill is first-class. Any record can be entered with a past date, so adopting mid-year does not mean starting from today.
- Nothing to migrate later. Every record carries an identifier and timestamps from day one, which is what makes optional cloud sync a later choice rather than a rebuild.
Cost per pound of gain
Feed cost against pounds actually put on
Lifetime average daily gain
The official figure, first weigh-in to last
Days on feed
Counted from the dates, not estimated
Figures from an example animal, shown to illustrate the arithmetic.
Where it stops
Worth being straight about, so nobody buys it expecting the wrong thing.
- It is a record-keeping app, not herd-management software — there is no EID reader integration, no scale head connection and no chute-side hardware.
- It gives no veterinary, nutrition, dosing or ration advice of any kind.
- It has no multi-user access, no seats and no shared office view. Version one is one household on one device.
- It does not price cattle, track markets or value inventory.
What it does is hold every figure a production record needs, do the arithmetic correctly, and let you get it back out.
Put the herd’s figures somewhere they will still be next year.
Free while the app is in testing. One price after that, and it stays yours.