Herbst Cattle Management Software | Livestock Management
Herbst Cattle Management Software is an advanced farm management tool. It can be used not just by cattle farmers,but also by sheep, horse, pig and other livestock farmers.
The programme uses the power of a computer to record and organise complex information which accumulates during the life of an animal and presents it in an easy to read format. Once the information is entered it can be edited at any time.
About Herbst Cattle Management Software
The software keeps the information on birth and deaths of every animal in the herd, their purchases and sales, tag numbers, weight, feeds, inoculations and more.
Herbst Cattle Management Software can provide you at any time with the exact number of animals in the herd, their origin and individual characteristics.
Herbst Cattle Management Software provides you with several predefined lists (layouts) eg:
- Animals In Herd
- The Movement Book (Purchased, Sold, Moved In/Off Herd animals)
- The Health book
There are also lists that show you born on farm animals, dead animals, all animals. You can also easily construct your own layouts.
Herbst Cattle Management Software Features
- The software allows you to trace animal movements with full details on every event recorded into the system
- The programme also allows you to see the daily weight gain since birth, purchase or last weighing and judging by this estimate animal weight on a certain date
- Weigh Wizard facilitates entering weighings into the system
- Viewing of electronic version of Bovine Herd Register and making hard copy of the register that replicates the format set out in the book version of the on-farm register
- Security Log can be printed out along with the register.
- Barcode Reader can be used for data capture, for example, for scanning tag numbers of the cattle into the system
- You can add Attachments and load a photo of an animal, their pedigrees etc
- AIM Herd Profile Comparison Wizard allows to compare the list of animals received from the Department Of Agriculture and Food web site with the list of animals stored in the database
- Grain Feed Calculator and Cost & Quantity Calculator help optimize the feeding scheme
- Quick Edit facility to edit quickly and easily a group of animals at once
- Powerful search facility
- Access control – There can be several users in the system with their own passwords. The administrator of the system can set privileges for every user, restricting and granting rights
Cattle Management Software – The Reports
Herbst Cattle Management Software offers a wide variety of reports that can be printed out e.g. Animal Passport, Sold Animals, Purchased Animals, Dead Animals and many other. The reporting is very flexible.
There are many preset reports within the system but any information held on an animal record can be produced in a report format you can design yourself. You can choose which columns to display, apply filters and sort orders, group the rows, etc.
Security
In order to comply with the Department of Agriculture and Food Regulations, any amendments made to the Herd Register is recorded in the Security Log.
Here you can see all actions whatever made on the animals. Every line describes actions on animal records (inserting, modifying). You can see user name, date and time, and properties of edited animals. Details describe every edited field
