Castration and hoof trimming

Overview

Besides medication treatments and vaccinations, the treatment journal holds two further entry types: Castration and Hoof trimming. You record both in the same form and pick the type at the top.

Neither type carries withdrawal periods, and neither belongs in the official treatment journal. Herdy still keeps them in the same journal because they are part of the animal's health history, and exports them as separate lists on request.

Recording a castration

1. Go to Health > Treatment journal
2. Tap New treatment
3. Pick the type Castration at the top
4. Choose the animal and the date
5. Choose the method:
   • Rubber ring: elastrator, common in lambs during the first days of life
   • Burdizzo: bloodless method with the clamp
   • Surgical: surgical castration by the vet
6. Add Prescribing vet and Notes if needed
7. Tap Record treatment

With the entry, Herdy also sets the animal's castration status and copies the date into the animal profile. If the animal was already recorded as castrated, the existing status stays.

Recording hoof trimming

1. Go to Health > Treatment journal
2. Tap New treatment
3. Pick the type Hoof trimming at the top
4. Choose the animal and the date
5. Choose the findings:
   • Normal: routine trimming with nothing remarkable
   • Foot rot: a foot rot finding
   • Overgrown: excess hoof horn
   • Abscess: hoof abscess
   • Other
6. Under Affected hooves, pick the affected positions: FL (front left), FR (front right), RL (rear left), RR (rear right). This is optional.
7. Tap Record treatment

Why it matters: the finding Foot rot and an abnormal hoof finding feed into the sampling list of the footrot programme. If you record hoof trimming consistently, you do not have to remember on the morning of the sampling which ewe was lame in July.

For several animals at once

Castrations and hoof trimming can be recorded for several animals together, just like a treatment:

1. Go to Health > Overview and tap Group treatment
2. Pick the animals through a group, individually, or by scanning ear tags
3. In the second step pick the type Castration or Hoof trimming
4. Fill in method or findings once and save

Every animal gets its own entry.

Entries in the animal history

All journal entries appear in the History of the animal profile, together with treatments, vaccinations, weighings, movements and TVD notifications.

1. Go to Animals and pick the animal
2. Tap the History tab
3. Scroll through the timeline

Tip: the animal history is especially useful during a vet visit. Open the profile of the animal in question and show the vet its entire health history at a glance.

General observations

Observations that are not a treatment do not belong in the treatment journal. Record them under Care & Welfare > Notes, see Notes. That is where behavioural observations, minor injuries treated without medication and anything you want to keep for later belong.

Export

Castrations and hoof trimming are not part of the BLV official form, because they are not a use of veterinary medicinal products. Separate lists are available under Health > Treatment journal > Export > Other exports.