Pigs belong in the same list as everything else.
Plenty of farms keep a few fattening pigs alongside sheep or cattle, and for those pigs there is usually nothing but paper. Herdy runs them in the same program: the same animal list, the same treatment journal, the same exercise log. What works differently for pigs is spelled out below.
No credit card.
In Switzerland a pig has no individual identity.
With sheep, goats and cattle every animal carries its own number, and every birth, arrival and departure is reported individually. Pigs work differently. Article 11 of the animal disease ordinance only requires the marking to identify the holding of birth: one tag, right ear, carrying the TVD number of the farm where the pig was born. The four-digit serial many farms stamp on as well is not required by law and is registered nowhere; if a tag is lost, the fattening farm may assign its own number. That is why pigs have no birth, departure or death notification. What exists is the recipient's arrival notification and the abattoir's slaughter notification.
- One tag in the right ear, within 30 days of birth or before the pig leaves the farm
- The ear tag number is optional for pigs; Herdy does not ask for it
- No re-tagging on import, unlike cattle, sheep and goats
- No replacement tag orders; the TVD does not provide them for pigs
For pigs the duty is the record, not the notification.
Because the individual pig is not held in the TVD, the obligation moves to your own register. Article 8 of the animal disease ordinance requires arrivals and departures to be recorded within three days, and article 13 requires you to keep those records for three years. That is exactly what gets inspected. It is also the part Herdy takes over in full today.
What is built for pigs.
Herd register at the press of a button
The animal register plus arrivals and departures as PDF or CSV, out of the same entries you work with anyway. Ready before the inspection is announced, instead of assembled the evening before.
Treatment journal under TAMV
Record treatments, carry the meat withdrawal period along, and present the journal under TAMV article 28 as a PDF. The same journal as for your sheep and cattle, not a second one beside it.
Exercise log with its own categories
Sows, fattening pigs and boars are there as categories. Outdoor access is confirmed per category, and Herdy counts the monthly progress against the RAUS requirement.
Breeds, categories and weights, the way you keep them.
Nine breeds are on file, from the Swiss Large White through Landrace and PRIMERA to the Mangalitza, plus crossbred as the honest default for a fattening batch. Sow, boar and barrow are the available sexes, and Herdy calculates with 115 days of gestation. Weights and daily gains work as they do for the other species, so you can see which group is putting on what.
- Nine SUISAG breeds, including Mangalitza and crossbred
- Sow, boar and barrow, with no horn status and no RFID requirement
- 115 days of gestation, overridable per mating
- Weights and daily gains per animal and per group
What works today, and what does not.
Most of the gaps in this table are not Herdy limits but the Swiss reporting system: for pigs, birth, departure and death are not keeper notifications at all. One row, though, is ours: the arrival notification is built but not yet switched on. We would rather say so up front.
| Item | Pig | Sheep | Cattle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herd register as PDF | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Treatment journal under TAMV | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Exercise log for RAUS | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Arrival notification to the TVD | Built, not yet switched on | Yes | Yes |
| Birth notification | Not foreseen for pigs | Yes | Yes |
| Departure notification | Not foreseen for pigs | Yes | Yes |
| Death notification | Not foreseen for pigs | Yes | Yes |
| Slaughter notification | Only by the abattoir | Only by the abattoir | Only by the abattoir |
| Transit document from the app | Not today | Yes | Yes |
- The pig arrival notification is a head-count notification, not a per-animal one: what gets reported is the date, the number of animals and the source holding. It is built in Herdy and has been run against the real interface on the test environment, but it is switched off in production until the pig genus is released for your farm at Agate.
- For pigs, birth, departure and death are not keeper notifications. That follows from the ordinance on Identitas AG and the animal movement database, and it is not a Herdy limit.
- The transit document for pigs runs over eTransit rather than the interface Herdy is connected to, so Herdy does not produce it today. For sheep and goats Herdy does produce it.
- As at 1 September 2026. Last checked against the interface and the ordinances in force.
If you keep other animals alongside the pigs, that is the actual point.
Frequently asked questions about pig farming
Not yet. The group notification is built and has been run against the real interface on the test environment, but it is switched off in production until Agate releases the pig genus for Herdy. Until then you file the arrival in the portal on agate.ch as before, and Herdy keeps your herd register and journals. The moment it opens, it goes in the changelog.
See your whole herd in one place.
7 days free, no credit card. Sheep, goats, cattle and pigs in the same list.