iLivestock

Gabbi Duval

Georgia Foster

Sheep

Adding Sheep - CSV Upload

Add your sheep manually by scanning their EID tag and completing their details as you go or update as a group once added.

Adding Sheep - Scan EID

Import scanned groups from your stick reader

Adding Sheep - Import Groups

Create a batch of lambs to record information against a group that do not have individual tags

Adding Sheep - Batches

Different ways to add your sheep to the app

Adding Sheep

Setting your individual sheep records details.

Filling in Sheep Details

On the animal summary, you can view an animal or perform an action.

Animal Summary Actions

How to add a or edit a note on an animal record.

Adding a Note to an Animal

How to add a photo of a sheep to its animal record (Currently iOS Only)

Adding an Animal Photo - Sheep

Have you added an animal to your app manually with a visual number, but want to now add an EID number to its record? Here is how:

Adding EID tags to existing Animals

Add your sheep's weights manually to keep weight records and allow tracking.

Manual Sheep Weight Entry

Needing to find specific animals? Filtering enables to you to view the animals you want based on selected details

Sheep Filters

Using the multicoloured 'Flags' feature can allow you to create a personalised filtering system and a way to identify certain animals.

Flags

How to archive animals individually or as a group, and how to restore animals from the archive back to your live animal list.

Archiving & Unarchiving animals

How to set process alerts on individual animals or as a group, and what they do.

Process Alerts

Animal icons on the animal list and their meaning.

Animal Icons

How to link sires and dams to offspring in the animal details without the need of a breeding record.

Linking Sire and Dam to an Animal

How to edit sheep details individually or as a group

Sheep Details 

Permanent Groups, Auto Groups and Management Groups: use groups to manage and compare your animals

Groups

How to use the drafter feature to separate animals, and colour scheme

Drafter - Separating Animals (iOS)

How to use the inventory feature find missing animals in a group, and what the colours mean.

Inventory

How to add sheep to a group, move group, merge groups, and delete groups

Grouping

Overview of medicating in iLivestock, how to open add medicines then medicate single or groups of animals.

Medicating animals

This article guides you on medicating a single animal or group of sheep

Adding medications to sheep

See below the different ways that withdrawal dates are calculated

Medicine Withdrawal Periods

A guide on adding and managing ailments for sheep in iLivestock

Adding Ailments

Adding new medicines in iLivestock, and archiving/removing old medicines.

Add & Manage Medicines

Medicating

Everything you need to know about recording your sheep breeding information in iLivestock

Breeding for Sheep

iLivestock Quick Record offers a speedy way to add or update existing breeding records for scan results and offspring recording

Quick Record for Breeding Data

Deleting a Sheep Breeding Record

Pre-create your expected lambs with their correct IDs in preparation for lambing and hassle free recording.

Sheep Tag Series for Lambing

Breeding

How to log Off and On movements in the app and keep your flock book movements up to date for compliance.

Movements for Sheep

How to return an animal from dead back to the main animal list. (Undo a Death)

Reverse a Death

What to do in the app if you need to report lost tag(s) or add a replacement tag.

Replacement Sheep Tags

There are many breeds automatically on iLivestock, can't see the one you want? Here is how to add breeds in to iLivestock

Adding Breeds

How to manage your staff and vehicle records, staff and vehicles can be used for extra details on movements and medications.

Staff & Vehicles

How to log Deaths in the app and keep your herd and flock book up to date for compliance.

Deaths

Connect to the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) Cattle Tracing System (CTS) to download and manage your cattle movements in iLivestock

Connect to BCMS CTS for Cattle Import and Movements (iOS Apple Devices only)

Compliance

New to iLivestock? Here is how to sync your data and what it does.

Sync Centre & Syncing

How to turn off the feature of permanently deleting animals, and only allowing archiving.

Turning Off Animal Delete

How to turn off the log in screen/password protection every time you open the app (iOS only).