Livestock Management Software Development

Individual animal record linked to the animal's electronic or visual identifier. RFID tag, ear tag number, breed society herd book number, or official country tag number. Lifetime record for each animal from birth or purchase through to sale, slaughter, or disposal, with all health events, movement records, and production data attached to the single animal identity. Dam and sire linkage for animals born on the holding builds a pedigree record within the system as animals are born and tagged. Purchase records for bought-in animals capture origin holding, vendor, and any health history information provided at purchase. Animal grouping and pen management with movement between groups recorded means the current location of any animal is visible from the central system without a physical search of the holding. Disposal records with sale date, buyer, vehicle, and despatch weight cover slaughter cattle and breeding stock disposals.

Veterinary treatment record for every medicine event. Animal identity, date, product, dose, route of administration, operator, and withdrawal period calculated automatically from the treatment date and the product's withdrawal period. Withdrawal period calendar shows every treated animal that is currently within a withdrawal period for meat, milk, or egg withdrawal, preventing inadvertent dispatch of animals or product before withdrawal has elapsed. Vet visit records capture the attending vet, the animals examined, diagnoses, and treatment plans against the visit rather than against individual animals alone, so the full clinical picture from each vet visit is preserved. Prescription medicine records maintained separately record the prescription authority, the product, the quantity authorised, and the quantity dispensed to satisfy medicine record-keeping regulations. Herd health plan linked to the medicine and treatment records documents the preventive health programme and biosecurity measures for farm assurance audit.

Breeding event records with service date, sire identity (own bull, AI sire, or ET donor), and the group or individual animals served. Pregnancy diagnosis results recorded with PD date, result, expected calving date, and the sire confirmed at PD for herds where multiple sires are in use. Calving record with actual calving date, ease of calving score, assistance required, calf identity assigned at birth, and calf details linked to the dam and sire records. Performance recording data including weaning weights, yearling weights, and age-adjusted performance measurements are linked to the animal record for operations enrolled in breed society or national performance recording schemes. Export of performance data in the format required by breed societies and national performance databases covers animals being submitted to external recording programmes.

Ration formulation by animal group or pen records the diet specification. Ingredients, inclusion rates, and target nutritional analysis per group and per period. Daily feed allocation by group shows the quantity of each ration component required for the number of animals in the pen, adjusted when pen numbers change due to movement or sales. Feed delivery recording against the planned allocation identifies groups where actual feed delivery differs from the ration specification. Feed cost calculation per group uses the delivery quantities and the purchased cost of each feed component, allocated to the relevant enterprise for cost of production analysis. Feed conversion recording for finishing enterprises tracks live weight gain against feed consumed for FCR calculation by pen and by period.

Movement recording for on-farm movements. Group transfer between pens, movements between holdings under common ownership. And off-farm movements for sale, slaughter, and show or exhibition. Movement document generation for off-farm movements includes the holding identifier, animal count or identity, destination, and transport details in the format required by the relevant livestock movement recording scheme. Electronic submission to national livestock movement databases where regulatory integration is available: BCMS for cattle movements in Great Britain, ScotEID for Scottish sheep and goat movements, or equivalent regulatory databases in other operating jurisdictions. Incoming movement recording for purchased animals captures origin holding and transport details, with the animal record created at receipt linked to the movement document. On-farm isolation and biosecurity period tracking for newly purchased animals records the isolation start date and release date against the purchased group.

Herd performance dashboard with key metrics by enterprise: calving rate, weaning rate, calf mortality, average daily gain, and feed conversion for finishing enterprises. Fertility analysis covers submission rate, conception rate, calving spread, and empty cow rate for breeding herds, benchmarked against targets and previous seasons. Sire performance comparison for bulls or AI sires used across the herd extracts calving ease, calf survival, and progeny performance data from the animal records for the relevant progeny group. Culling analysis tracks reasons for disposal at the individual animal level and aggregates to show the main culling causes across the herd for health and management review. Financial performance by enterprise covers receipts from sales and subsidies against cost of production from the feed and health record data, giving the gross margin data that farm businesses need for management decisions and bank reporting.