FarmKeep

I downloaded this app and I started adding my animals and was constantly impressed with how easy it was to navigate and also really impressed with how much detail I can add in terms of breeding and tracking milk production. I even love how you can create breeding groups and add pedigrees. One of the things I always struggled with before was being able to quickly access photos of certain goats or find udder pictures for a certain one when I am conversing with other breeders. This app makes it so easy to add collections of photos for each animal. I quickly opted for the premium version as I can see how invaluable this app is! I am definitely going to recommend this to all my goat friends!

I wasn’t even looking for an app to track my whole hobby farm, just my rabbitry records, but this popped up and I was intrigued. It has so many features I’ve wanted in a farm app, and others I never even thought of. I’ve only been using it a few days and I’m already transferring my rabbit records from the other app because despite not having a few of the features of the other one, FarmKeep is far superior. My only real “complaints” right now are in regards to the selling of livestock, the deaths/processing of livestock, and all the babies/for sale being in with permanent adult livestock. I would like to have the option on the individual animal’s page to be able to notate a date obtained and a date sold, processed, or died. In addition to this, when selling livestock in the finance section there is no way to notate a specific animal that was sold. This would be incredibly helpful. I realize I can do these things manually by archiving said animal and writing it in but when processing a batch of meat animals this will get tedious. And for sales, having their name/id number attached to a specific sale would be helpful for customer records. In regards to the babies and livestock for sale, it would be nice to have another toggle option for each to make them visible or not in the master list. It would also be nice to be able to collapse down animal species groups because while my rabbits I would likely have open all the time, in off season I’d like to be able to collapse my geese list. Thank you for a great app overall.

At first it felt like “too much” work to enter in all our cattle, chicken flocks, dogs, goats, horses, etc… but the more we spend time investing in the app the more priceless it becomes. My husband and I have been more organized over the last several weeks as we both share ranch related data together over the app. Accountability is easier, and we feel like whenever we take another vacation or short trip, we can more easily share daily to-dos, and stay up to date with our friends and family that help take care of the ranch while we’re away. Lately, keeping track of health related data with our animals has been paramount. FarmKeep is going places!