Record the lambing where it happens.
Dam, lambs, ear tags — on your phone, in the barn. Out of that entry come the TVD birth report, the pedigree and your lambing rate. The evening in April disappears.
No credit card. Your real farm, your real animals.
Dam, lambs and ear tags in a single entry.
Pick the dam, enter live and stillborn, then for each lamb the sex, birth weight, colour and ear tag. You pull the ear tag number from your stock, which Herdy fetches out of the TVD — no eight-digit number typed with cold fingers. Birth ease and mothering score are two taps, and leaving them out costs you nothing.
- Multiple births, stillbirths and foster dams in the same entry
- Ear tags from the stock Herdy fetches out of the TVD
- Birth ease from «unassisted» to «caesarean», mothering score 1 to 5
- Stillbirths are counted, but no animal record is created and nothing is reported
The birth report is already there when you are done.
One lambing creates, in a single step: the lamb as an animal, its birth weight, the entry in the pedigree, and the birth report to the TVD. The report is a draft until you send it — Herdy checks it for completeness first and names the missing field instead of an error code. You have 30 days for a birth; Herdy tracks the deadline.
- Birth report as a draft, with a completeness check before sending
- A warning if the dam herself is not yet registered in the TVD
- 30-day deadline, with a countdown and an email reminder
- The TVD confirmation number stays with the animal, with its timestamp
What else comes out of the births
Mating date becomes due date
Record the mating — natural service or AI — and Herdy calculates the date: 147 days for sheep, 150 for goats, 283 for cattle, overridable per mating. The overview shows «due this week», «due in 8 to 30 days» and «overdue».
Dam, sire, pedigree
From the moment it is entered, every lamb hangs off its dam and sire. The pedigree separates the maternal and paternal lines, every ancestor is clickable, and you print the pedigree certificate as a PDF. Herdy shows the inbreeding coefficient inside the mating form itself — with the common ancestors that caused it, before you save.
The figures you otherwise estimate
Average litter size, share born alive, birth interval, average birth weight and the distribution of birth ease — per dam and across the whole herd. Out of your own entries, not out of a feeling.
Your herd is already in the TVD. Herdy fetches it — with ear tag numbers, sex and birth dates. Ancestry and old lambings that exist only in your binder come across by CSV or not at all. We would rather say that up front.
Switching and data migrationFrequently asked questions
No. Only active animals from six months of age count towards the tier. Lambs and kids do not count, and your lambing does not blow the tier.
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Record one lambing. Then you will see it.
7 days free, no credit card. Your herd comes out of the TVD before the first lamb arrives.