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Lots & groups
Organize the flock, attach protocols and goals to a group, and see what is overdue.
What it is for
Lots & groups organizes the flock. Deleting a lot never deletes its animals, and archiving keeps every linked record (memberships, goals, protocols). A lot has a type: contemporary group (a lamb crop), feeding, breeding, general, or the system-managed culling group, whose members come from the "mark for culling" action.
- 1Lot controls due (protocol steps pending)
- 2Lot type: contemporary group, feeding, breeding, general, culling
- 3Animals in the lot (current / historical)
- 4Edit or archive (archiving keeps every record)
- 5Create a new lot
- 6Review assignments
- 7System group: animals marked for culling land here automatically
Groups and locations
An animal can belong to more than one group at a time; the profile's History tab shows "1 of 3 active groups" and distinguishes the current group marked as its site. In practice, use one group for where the animal physically is (paddock or pen) and other groups for management purposes (a breeding season, a feeding lot), and let the animal carry both.
Lot controls due
The banner at the top lists protocol steps pending per lot ("50-day weighings incomplete 6/6", "Vaccinations incomplete 1/21") with the animals missing and a warning when the age window has closed for some of them: that data can no longer be taken.
Inside a lot
The lot panel offers Add animals, Change group, Record mating mark, Archive and Field sheet. Below: the animal table (tag, name, sex, age, breed, status, reproductive status, entry date, other lots, with Move and Remove per row); Activities & Calendar with pending and overdue tasks, each with its progress bar, "Open and record" and "Suggest the best date for the lot"; Lot protocols; Notes & loose to-dos; Lot goals; the Lot market objective card; and Work performed, a log of every job done on the lot.
- 1Add animals to the lot
- 2Move animals to another group
- 3Record a mating mark (crayon/harness)
- 4Animals in this lot
- 5Activities & calendar: pending and overdue tasks
- 6Protocol task with its progress bar and pending animals
- 7Suggest the best date for the whole lot
- 8Field sheet for this lot
Protocols
A protocol is a routine that generates tasks automatically when an event happens; a lot can carry several at once. Templates (Lamb rearing, Reproductive cycle, Pre-lambing) install only if you choose them: nothing activates on its own. Each protocol card shows its category, state, start date, controls completed and the next control due.
- 1Lot protocols: routines that generate tasks
- 2Add a protocol (templates install only if you choose them)
- 3Protocol card: category, state, start date
- 4Next control due
- 5Notes and loose to-dos
- 6Lot goals (weight and reproductive deadlines)
Goals and market objective
Lot goals open Settings › Goals, which separates commercial goals (a weight to reach, configured in the Market module) from reproductive goals (a deadline for an event, for example first lambing before a certain age). No reproductive goal is delivered by default: the app states that age at first lambing depends on breed, nutrition and system and does not invent it. A first service before 9 months is an example of a goal you can configure for your own system.
The market objective card summarizes the lot's target ("Engorde a 40 kg"), how many animals are assigned, ready, close and growing, average weight, average gain and mean days to target.
- 1Lot market objective (target live weight)
- 2Readiness chips: assigned, ready, close, growing
- 3Average weight, average gain and mean days to target
- 4Work performed on this lot (log)
- 5Add or modify goals (opens Settings › Goals)
Group matings
"Record mating mark" records the crayon or harness mark for the lot's ewes, and the Chute's Mating activity records the service date. Group matings of about 20 ewes per ram are a common practice, not a value the app imposes.