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, categorized and dated, with break-even worked out per animal. Equipment is linked to every animal that uses it, and each animal’s figures carry its full year of depreciation; the equipment list shows the household total with each item counted once.
Hours actually worked
Work sessions across several animals at once, so labor going into a group is recorded rather than estimated at the end of the year.
Health and treatments
Treatments with the date, route, and site, and the meat, milk, and egg withdrawal times on the label worked out to a clearing date rather than from memory.
Milk, by the day and the lactation
Each milking in the unit it was measured in, a new lactation every time a cow or goat freshens, and test days kept beside the record rather than counted twice.
Eggs from a laying flock
Collections with the hen count, a lay rate that waits for two weeks of records, and an income estimate only once you set your own price per dozen.
A pen counted once
A broiler pen or a meat pen of rabbits is one project with a head count, weighed together, with the per-head figure printed beside the pen’s.
Why a phone-first tool suits a herd
Herd software usually assumes an office, a desktop, 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 and no seats. There is nothing to sign up for, and the records sit on your phone rather than on someone’s server. The free version keeps two exhibitors with one active animal each; Pro, a yearly subscription, adds as many exhibitors and animals as the place needs.
- 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, and it does not judge an animal against a breed average or draw a “healthy” band on a cell-count chart.
- It has no multi-user access, no seats, and no shared office view. It is one household on one iPhone, and there is no Android version.
- It does not price cattle, track markets, or value inventory.
What it does is hold the figures a production record needs, do the arithmetic, and let you get them back out.
Put the herd’s figures somewhere they will still be next year.
Free for up to two exhibitors, with one active animal each. Pro is a yearly subscription, and the App Store shows the price for your country.