No more keeping withdrawal periods in your head.
With milk, a missed withdrawal period is not paperwork — the delivery is gone. Herdy calculates the period separately for meat and for milk, and lets no blocked animal leave. Plus organic and label export, kidding from January to March, and TVD reports.
No credit card.
What runs differently on a dairy goat farm.
Withdrawal period
Meat and milk have different periods, and with milk the clock runs on every morning. Herdy calculates both out of the treatment and shows them on the animal — not in a notebook in the office.
Organic and label export
Bio Suisse, IP-Suisse and the TAMV want almost the same data, prepared three times over. Herdy produces one export with treatments, feed purchases and ration periods, including the purchased-versus-used cross-check.
Kidding January to March
Goats kid earlier than sheep. You record the birth where it happens, the birth report goes to the TVD within the 30 days, and the dam-to-kid link sits in the pedigree.
A blocked animal does not simply leave.
You record the treatment with product, dose and date. Herdy calculates the withdrawal period for meat and for milk — separately, because they are not the same length. If a departure or a slaughter comes up while the period is running, Herdy holds the report back and tells you until when. The treatment journal under TAMV Art. 28 builds itself, and so does the inventory journal under Art. 26.
Three inspections, one record.
Bio Suisse, the TAMV and the TVD want almost the same data — and today you write it down three times. In Herdy it is one entry. Out of it come the treatment journal, the feed and exercise evidence for the label inspection, and the report to the animal movement database. Without switching programs in between.
We cannot file goat arrivals. The TVD has deactivated that report on its interface — an arrival you still enter yourself in the portal at agate.ch. Birth, departure, death, slaughter and the summering reports do go straight out of Herdy.
We do not record milk yield. No daily volumes, no lactation curves, no breeding values. It is not built, and we would rather write that here than in a footnote.
And on breeds: of the 14 goat breeds in Herdy, 12 have their own TVD code. The rest go through the report as «other». For cattle the coverage is complete; for goats it is not yet.
Do you keep anything else? Herdy runs sheep and cattle on the same farm, under one Agate login.
Your herd is already in the TVD. Herdy fetches it — with ear tag numbers, sex and birth dates. What is not in the TVD comes in by CSV from your spreadsheet.
Switching and data migrationFrequently asked questions.
No. Daily volumes, lactation curves and breeding values are not built. If milk yield is your main concern, Herdy is not the right program today. What Herdy does handle is everything that touches the milk the moment a medicine is involved: the withdrawal period for milk, separate from the one for meat, and the block that comes with it.
Record one treatment. Then you will see the period.
7 days free, no credit card. Your herd comes from the TVD.