August brings our biggest update so far: alongside the exercise log, breeding planning and payment by QR-bill -- each with its own entry -- many more improvements went live across the app. Here are the highlights.

Heat monitoring: Herdy tells you who is due

The Breeding → Heat tab now opens a worklist instead of a journal: heat monitoring.

• Sorted by overdue, due, upcoming -- every row explains why it is there: "Return-to-heat check -- mating from 12 August, 1st cycle (21 days)" or "Breeding age (from 7 months) -- watch for first heat"
• Species-appropriate terminology for return-to-heat checks in cattle, sheep, goats and pigs
• In the matings list, every active mating shows its check plan: both return-to-heat checks, the pregnancy check and the due date at a glance
• A heat observed after a mating invalidates the mating -- the animal falls back to "open" instead of running on with a wrong due date
• Cycle length, check windows and breeding season are configurable per species; a daily e-mail digest summarises the checks that are due

More in the heat monitoring documentation.

Summering: from a form to a season

Alpine summering is now a lifecycle with its own season page instead of a one-off wizard.

• Every season shows animals, on the alp, returned, losses -- and the TVD transmission state per animal
• The target/actual reconciliation compares your season against the TVD registry at season end and names every discrepancy concretely
• Alpine descent as its own page with scanning and partial returns, late additions and loss reports (died, missing, departed) directly from the season
• Cattle can now summer too -- reported with the correct TVD departure reason "summering"
• The accompanying document now warns before the health declaration if animals still have a withdrawal period running according to the treatment journal
• Repeat summering carries last year's animals into the new season

Treatment journal & inventory as official forms

• The export under Health → Treatment journal now produces the FSVO standard form: a separate sheet set per species, a header block with farm and TVD number on every page, all mandatory columns per TAMV Art. 28 -- recognised for QS Milk, QM Swiss Meat, IP-SUISSE, Mutterkuh Schweiz and more
• Vaccinations appear as journal rows of their own; cancelled treatments no longer show up
• New as well: the medicine inventory list as an AGRIDEA standard form -- purchases, dispensing and disposal per medication, exported under Master data → Medications

Organic farms: Herdy keeps the rules

In the settings you define your farm's organic status (federal organic, Bio Suisse "Knospe", conversion). From then on:

• Withdrawal periods double automatically for chemically synthesised medicines (Organic Ordinance Art. 16d para. 8) -- the note appears right in the treatment form
• The organic treatment counter warns before the fourth counting treatment in a calendar year, at which an animal loses its organic status
• Knospe farms get warnings for critical antibiotic classes and antibiotic dry-off products -- including an antibiogram confirmation
• The exported journal becomes the organic journal with the extra columns antibiotics, critical antibiotics and antibiogram

TVD for everyone -- and more honest

• The TVD connection is now open to all farms -- the early-access switch is history
• Notifications rejected by the TVD can be corrected and resent instead of ending in a dead end
• An active BVD movement ban shows as a red "BVD blocked" badge instead of "unknown"
• Animals imported from the TVD carry a "Synced from TVD" badge in their profile
• The ear tag stock now includes cattle, and the new TVD → Query tab returns herd and TVD status for whole groups by scanning -- a pure query, no notification

Scanning: a tray instead of a toast

• Scanned animals land in the scan tray -- with a counter, a check against your herd, and nothing happening on its own
• "Continue with N animals" hands the tray to treatment, weighing, note, movement or query; the collection survives an app restart
• Because iOS hides the keyboard while a reader is paired, Herdy now ships its own on-screen keyboard and number pad
• Scan detection is more robust for Gallagher readers -- no more silently lost second scan

Animal list with group view

• The new List | Groups switch shows your herd as group cards -- with animal count, location and warning signals for running withdrawal periods and upcoming births
• One tap opens the filtered animal list with a direct group treatment; selection mode finally has "Select all"

Weighing list & weight analysis

• Breeding → Weight now starts with the weighing list: every animal with its due state, "never weighed" first, recording straight from the row with "Save & next"
• The new weight analysis under Reports compares average daily gain per breed within the age class -- and deliberately shows no value where the sample is too small

Herdy on your home screen

Herdy can be added as an app to your home screen -- no app store, no browser bar. On the phone Herdy offers the setup by itself and walks you through Safari on the iPhone step by step. Details in the guide.