Livestock project & herd records
Every record kept. Ready the day the book is due.
Weights, feed, receipts and hours for one market animal or a whole herd — logged at the chute in seconds, totalled correctly, and formatted for the record book your county actually uses.
Free while the app is in testing · $4.99 one‑time after that · no subscription
Works out in the barn
Records are kept on the phone, so a weigh-in logs at the scale house whether there is signal or not.
Nothing leaves the phone
No account, no cloud, no analytics, no advertising. Your records are not a product.
One price, no subscription
Pay once. Every animal, every season, no per-project fee and nothing to renew.
Built from real record books
The data model came out of six county books, not one — because no two of them agree.
The animal is the easy part.
Feed receipts go in a drawer. Weights end up on a whiteboard, a phone note, and the back of a feed tag. Then the book is due, and a season of real work has to be reconstructed from memory on a kitchen table at ten o’clock at night.
None of that is a record-keeping problem worth failing over. It is a problem of having nowhere sensible to put a number the moment you have it.
One place for everything the book asks for
Enter it once, on the day it happens, in about the time it takes to shut a gate.
Weights and gain
Log a weight in seconds and record how it was taken — certified scale, farm scale or a girth tape. Average daily gain is worked out for you, lifetime and recent.
Feed and cost of gain
Feed purchases, what was fed, and what the gain actually cost per pound. Money is held in whole cents end to end, so the totals foot.
Money in and out
Categorised expenses and income, purchase price, depreciation and break-even — the figures a record book wants and a business lesson needs.
Work log with photos
Log a session across several animals at once, with photos and video attached. The daily work is the part hardest to reconstruct later.
Shows and weight rules
Show dates, entry details and the weight window you have to land inside — prefilled from a published show list, then confirmed by you.
Buyers and the sale
A buyer list that runs as a pipeline — might approach, invited, interested, bought — with the letters you owe them tracked separately.
What it adds up to
Show what the work actually took.
A season disappears into single days. Forty minutes before school. An hour after practice. A Saturday morning rinsing and a Sunday afternoon walking. Nobody remembers it, and nobody outside the barn ever sees it.
Because every session, weight and receipt is dated, the app can total the season honestly — hours, days, pounds and dollars — and put a real number on what went in.
- For reporting. Hours and totals a record book, an application or a scholarship form asks for, already added up.
- For marketing themselves. A buyer deciding what to bid is far more moved by 96 logged hours than by a good haircut on sale day.
- For everyone else. A plain answer to “how hard can it be?” that a grandparent, a teacher or a first-time family can actually picture.
Hours logged
Across 119 separate work sessions
Days on feed
First weigh-in to the latest one
Cost per pound of gain
Feed cost against pounds actually put on
Total gain
615 lb in, 1,236 lb at the last weigh-in
Figures from an example project, shown to illustrate the arithmetic.
Gain and projections
Know whether you will make weight — while there is still time to do something about it.
Every weigh-in updates two figures. Lifetime average daily gain is the official one that goes in the book. Recent trend looks at the last few weigh-ins only, and it is the one that tells you something has changed.
The chart draws your show’s weight window as a band and runs the timeline out to show day, so the question you actually care about — will this animal land inside it — is answered without reading a single number.
When the projection falls short, the app states the arithmetic and the gap in plain pounds. What to change about the feeding programme is a decision for the exhibitor, their parent, their leader or their vet. The app does not offer an opinion, and it never will.
Feed and money
What the gain actually cost.
Log feed purchases and what was fed, and the app divides cost by pounds put on. That single figure — cost per pound of gain — is the one that turns a project from an animal into a business.
Every amount is stored in whole cents from end to end, because feed cost gets divided by pounds and multiplied back out, and that is exactly the pattern that accumulates rounding error. A record book that does not foot gets marked down.
Nutrition figures are never guessed. The app seeds feed brands and product names but leaves protein, fat and fibre blank on purpose — a stale number baked into an app is worse than an empty field, because a student would copy it into a book and it would be wrong with no way to tell.
The part that matters in April
Built to be turned in.
A season of tidy records is worth nothing if it does not come out in the shape your programme asks for. The export fills a real book — the same headings, the same categories, the same order — as a PDF you can print, plus CSV if you would rather work in a spreadsheet.
Different counties genuinely disagree with each other about eligibility, expense categories and how reflection is graded, so no single format could ever be right. Every book is driven by a template, which means another county is a new template file rather than a rewrite of the app.
Before you turn it in
A readiness check flags what is missing so nothing is discovered the night before.
- Weigh-ins the book counts, marked as official
- Feed and expense records with dates and receipts
- Work sessions covering the whole project period
- Show entries, placings and sale figures
- Letters marked sent — buyer’s and thank-you tracked separately
It tells you what is missing. It never fills anything in.
The rule the whole app is built around
The app does the arithmetic. The student does the thinking.
This is a better tool than a shoebox for keeping records. It is not, and will never be, a way around the work the record book exists to teach.
What it will do
- Organise, prompt, remind and total
- Lay out a business letter properly — date, addresses, salutation, closing
- Offer a checklist of what a strong letter usually covers
- Supply the structure and prompts your county’s template asks for
- Flag what is still missing before you turn it in
What it will not do
- Write a project story, reflection or goal
- Write a buyer’s letter or a thank-you letter
- Suggest what to say to anyone
- Tell you what to change about a feeding programme
- Hand a student a single sentence a judge is scoring
Every sentence a judge reads is typed by the exhibitor. If a feature would hand over something being graded, it is out of scope no matter how easy it would be to build.
Market animals and herds alike
Not only for a project animal.
Gain against feed cost is gain against feed cost whether the animal is going to a county fair or staying on the place. The app was shaped alongside youth exhibitors, and it works just as well for a family raising a market animal or a working operation watching what a pen is costing to put weight on.
Breeding records are first-class rather than an afterthought — bred, due, birthed, rebred, year after year — which is what makes the app worth opening in a month with no show in it.
Steer
Heifer
Hog
Lamb
Goat
One price. Then it is yours.
Free while the app is in testing. After that a single $4.99 purchase covers every animal and every season — no subscription, no per-project charge, no advertising, and no account to create.
Questions families ask first
Yes, and it was designed for exactly that. Every screen accepts a past date — weights, feed purchases, expenses, income and work sessions all backfill. Nothing assumes you are filling it in live, because most people adopt a record-keeping app halfway through a project year rather than on day one.
Yes. Records are kept in a database on the phone, so logging a weight at the scale house works with no bars and no wi-fi. The one thing that needs a connection is refreshing the published show list, and a failed refresh just leaves the copy you already have.
No, and that is deliberate. The app supplies the structure and the prompts your county’s template asks for, and lays out a business letter properly, but every sentence of the body is typed by the exhibitor. Anything a judge grades on the student’s own thought or writing stays the student’s.
On your device. There is no account, no server holding your records, no cloud sync, no advertising and no analytics. The app makes exactly one outbound request — downloading a public list of livestock shows — and that request contains nothing about you, your animals or where you are.
Start the season with the records already handled.
Free while the app is in testing. One price after that, and it stays yours.