Herdwatch For Suckler Farmers

Suckler Farming Features

Easy Farm Compliance

Herdwatch allows you to record your remedy purchases, remedy use and feed purchases on the go.

Calf Registration

Herd Management

Keep on top of your herd with constant access to your animal details i.e. Age, TB date when you want. Get daily reminders in the Watchboard and produce reports in seconds.

Breeding

No more missed Heats! Record Heat Observations, Serves & Scanning.

Fast Weight Recording

You can record weights in Herdwatch quickly and easily. Herdwatch will then calculate the Average Daily Gain for you.

Paperless Cattle Movement Certs

Herdwatch allows you to apply for a Movement Cert on the spot and complete the movement process in a minute.

Save time and hassle on farm compliance paperwork

Suckler farmers save 3 hours per week on average recording farm events with the Herdwatch farm management app. Herdwatch allows farmers to record remedies and/or farm purchases on the spot.

Record farm events as they happen using your smart phone, tablet or PC even without an internet connection. The app allows farmers to record events such as cattle treatments from the Crush, this information is then backed up the cloud when an internet connection is available meaning your most important records will always be safe.

What Compliance information can I record in Herdwatch?

Remedy Purchases
Remedy Stock Tracking
Animal Remedy Treatments
Feed Purchases
Sprays and Pesticide purchases
Sprays and Pesticide Use

Do away with your Record books. Record remedies and feed purchases as it happens in Herdwatch.

Never miss another heat! Herdwatch will remind you when your cow is due to come in-heat or repeat.

Suckler Farm Management

Herdwatch helps farmers improve their farm management and productivity by giving access to farm records when you need them.

The Watchboard

The Watchboard gives Suckler farmers daily reminders of animals that might need attention or tasks that need to be completed.

The Watchboard will notify suckler farmers of:

What animals are due to repeat
What animals are in meat withdrawal
What cows are due to calve in the next week
What calves still need to be registered

Your Herd in Your hand

A key benefit of Herdwatch is having all your animal's details on the spot. As Herdwatch is truly mobile you have access to your information all the time even without an internet connection. So, if you’re out in the field and want to check what calf belongs to what cow you simply take out your phone and check.

Creating Animal Groups and Filters

Recording events for groups of animals in Herdwatch is quick and easy. Create groups for your cattle and then manage them in Herdwatch like you do on the farm.

Recording treatment for groups is quick and easy. Herdwatch comes fully stocked with automatic filters which help quickly identify animals with specific criteria such as calves born on farm or weanling purchased.

Breeding Management

Getting Cows back in calf can be a challenge for Suckler farmers and the breeding period can be a determining factor on whether you make a profit or loss. Getting Heifers to calf down at 24 months old and shortening your calving interval by a few days will have a major effect on your farm income.

Herdwatch will help you manage the full breeding cycle, from Heat Checks to Inseminations and Pregnancy Scanning. It will help you get your cows back in calf quicker and identify the problem cows earlier.

Breeding information can be viewed in the Breeding section of Herdwatch. Suckler farmers can view information in easy to understand reports which can also be printed at the touch of a button.

Easily produce Reports in Herdwatch

All information recorded in Herdwatch can be easily produced as a report, these reports can either be can be produced as PDF or Excel reports or viewed in the Herdwatch app.

Herdwatch allows Suckler farmers to do much more than just record farm events and meet basic compliance requirement guidelines. Herdwatch gives Suckler farmers the power to make informed decisions based on the information that has been recorded over the past year.

You can produce reports for:

Cattle in a Milk Meat Period
Animals in Herd
Groups
Calves born
Breeding
Weight recording and average daily gains
Cost Management

What our members say

"The app is fool proof!… Before you finalise any calf registration or movement cert, Herdwatch will ask you to double check info provided. All records can be edited and deleted."

Nigel Flannery

Sligo

"Herdwatch is great when I’m changing cows, if I’m wondering what calf belongs to what cow, it’s all there in my phone."

Pat Feehily

Roscommon

Suckler Farmers: Get your cows back in calf quicker