Other farm animals

What the app keeps for other animals

The app has pages for the most common species, but many farms have something else as well: a few guinea pig pens, some dairy buffalo, ducks on the pond, turkeys for December, deer or a frog farm. All of them can be kept as other animals. They have no categories of their own: they use the same general categories as every species, such as meat, dairy or laying.

• Records and groups. Animals worth following, such as a buffalo cow or a breeding guinea pig sow, have their own record: the app assigns them a number and you enter the name, breed, sex and birth date. With registered animals you set up groups, for example one per pen or per species. Every registered animal counts towards the free plan’s limit of 50, so fattening guinea pigs or large numbers of ducks are best kept as a group counted by quantity: a running total you update with births, purchases, deaths, sales and culls, which does not count towards that limit.
• Weights and daily gain. You record a registered animal’s weight when you take it and the app calculates the daily gain between weighings and draws the curve.
• Whichever production applies. The quick log has milk, eggs, meat, wool, cheese and honey, and each entry goes to the whole farm, to one animal or to one group. Meat for guinea pigs, turkeys or frogs, eggs for ducks and geese, milk and cheese for buffalo. On the free plan you see today’s total and the last 7 days; monthly and three-month totals are on the Pro plan.
• Costs and sales. Feed, forage, medicines and housing are recorded as expenses, with a category and a description, and assigned to the whole farm, to one animal or to one group. The sale of an animal recorded on its record is booked as income for that animal; other sales go to the farm or to a group. Each month you see what comes in, what goes out and the trend over the last six months.
• Reminders. A vaccination, a deworming, a weaning or the sale date, each with its own date and a notification on your phone. They can repeat every so many days, weeks or months: when you mark one done, the app sets the next.

On the free plan you have up to 50 animals, 2 groups and 10 reminders. The Pro plan removes those limits and adds the balance per animal and per group, breeding records, full health records with withdrawal days and monthly production totals. The Pro weight projection does not apply to other animals, because the app has no reference weight for them.

Guinea pigs: the most common case

In Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia the guinea pig (cuy) is part of many family farms. The practical way is to register the breeding females and the males and put them in a group, for example per pen. Rearing and fattening stock, which turns over every few months, can be a group counted by quantity so as not to fill the free plan’s limit of 50 animals. In improved lines a guinea pig reaches around 1 kg live weight for sale, and a female has on average 2 to 4 young per litter. With forage and concentrate costs recorded and the meat sold in kilos, you know what each kilo of guinea pig costs you on average. If you assign costs and meat to each pen’s group, on the Pro plan each pen shows its own balance.

If your animal has its own page

If you raise chickens, pigs, rabbits or bees, see their page: it explains what the app keeps for each one. For example poultry, rabbits or cattle.