iLivestock

Anne Wellenberg

Gabbi Duval

Cattle

Overview of the different ways you can add your Sheep and or Cattle to your app.

How to add your animals

How to add tags to animals during a weighing session with eWeigh that already exist on your app with a visual number.

Adding Tags to Animals when Weighing with eWeigh

How to manually input an EID tag number in an iLivestock Animal record

Add Cattle Manually

Use your phone camera to scan in your cattle passport barcodes.

iOS: Cattle Passport Scanning

Instructions on downloading data from CTS/BCMS. Available on iOS only at the moment.

iOS: CTS/BCMS Data Downloading

Got a group of animals you scanned on your stick reader that you want on the app? Here is how to import EID numbers from your Stick Reader

EID Group Import (Sheep & Cattle)

The different ways of adding cattle to your app

Adding Cattle

How to create groups of sheep or cattle and add or remove animals. How to delete groups, and how to move animals from one group to another.

How to use Groups

How to add animals to a new or existing group.

Adding Animals to a group

Cattle Group Actions

How to copy, merge(add groups together)/delete/rename groups of Cattle.

Copy, Merge, Delete, & Renaming Groups

How to remove or move an animal from one group to another.

Removing/Moving Animals from a Group

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

Drafter - Separating Animals (iOS)

Like the animal stock list, iLivestock also has quick filters to make it easy to navigate through the different group types

Group Quick Filters

How to export information from a group of animals on the app.

Exporting group data

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

Inventory

How to add cattle 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 a group of cattle

Medicating Cattle

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

Add & Manage Medicines

See below the different ways that withdrawal dates are calculated

Medicine Withdrawal Periods

A guide on adding and managing ailments for cattle in iLivestock

Adding Ailments

Medicating

Overview of breeding in iLivestock, how to open a breeding record, enter breeding details, and then offspring.

How to use breeding

How to quickly add scanning results, record offspring, record weaning, manually add weights to your animals. Apple iOS & Android.

Quick Record

Create a breeding record for individual cows or groups of cattle, for bulling or after AI.

Creating a Cattle Breeding Record

Deleting a Cattle Breeding Record

Everything you need to know about logging your calf breeding information in iLivestock

Breeding - Cattle

Breeding

How to record compliance in the app, movements, deaths, and tag replacements.

Compliance in the app

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

Staff & Vehicles

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

A breakdown of the colour coding in iLivestock for CTS/BCMC icon borders on cattle.

CTS BCMS Movements Colour Coding

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

Replacement Cattle Tags

How to mark an animal as dead in iLivestock.

Recording a Cattle Death

How to register movements for a single cow or groups

Cattle Movements

How to view your movement and location records

Movements and Locations

Use this function if you have moved a record off your holding by mistake.

Movement Reversal (iOS Only)

Send births, deaths and movements directly to CTS/BCMS from the iLivestock app.

Reporting to CTS BCMS

How to register sales for a single cow or groups when selling cattle.

Sell Cattle

Compliance

Setting your individual cow record details.

Filling in Cattle Details

Animal icons on the animal list and their meaning.

Animal Icons

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 cow to its animal record (Currently iOS Only)

Adding an Animal Photo - Cattle

Got weights from your cattle? Herr is how to add your cattle's weights manually to keep weight records and allow tracking.

Manual Cattle Weight Entry

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

Filtering Cattle

Using the multicoloured 'Flags' feature can allow you to create a personalised filtering system.

Flags

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

Archiving & Unarchiving Animals

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 cattle details individually or as a group

Cattle Details 

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