Livestock management

Register animals, build their digital passports, record health and treatments, and manage the whole herd on web and mobile.

Available on Basic Updated 2026-07-12 · 7 min

Livestock management is the heart of Farmso: the register of every animal you own, each with a digital passport. From here you add animals, edit their details, record health and treatment events, track withdrawal periods, and see an animal’s full life history.

Use case

A cattle farmer tags a newborn calf, records its dam and breed, and later logs a vaccination with a 28-day meat-withdrawal period. When it is time to move or sell the animal, Farmso already knows whether the withdrawal has cleared — no manual cross-checking, no accidental non-compliant sale.

In the web app

Register an animal

  1. 1

    Open Livestock

    In the web app sidebar, choose Livestock Management.

  2. 2

    Add an animal

    Click Add and enter the tag/EID, species, breed, sex and date of birth. Optionally set the birth premises and sire/dam.

  3. 3

    Save

    The animal now has a passport. Open it any time to see identity, health, movements and compliance tabs.

  4. 4

    Record health

    On the animal’s Health tab, add vaccinations, treatments, diagnoses, weights or mortality — set a withdrawal period where relevant.

In the mobile app

Register an animal

  1. 1

    Scan or tap Add

    Tap the centre Scan button and scan the ear tag; if it is unknown, choose Register — the tag is pre-filled. Or open Animals and tap +.

  2. 2

    Fill the essentials

    Pick species, breed, sex and date of birth, and the premises. Save.

  3. 3

    Works offline

    If you are out of signal the animal is queued and syncs automatically — you will see “Will sync when online”.

  4. 4

    Record health on the animal

    Open the animal, go to Health, and add a treatment with an optional withdrawal in days.

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The Livestock register in the Farmso web app.
The Livestock register in the Farmso web app.

Working a whole race? Use continuous scan mode in the mobile app to scan many tags in a row and apply the same action (e.g. a vaccination) to each — see the Scanning guide.

FAQ

The time after a treatment during which the animal’s meat, milk, eggs or honey cannot enter the food chain. Farmso records it per consumable and warns you before a movement, sale or harvest if it has not cleared.