Android App for Cattle Inventory

[johndeerefarmer]

Anybody know of a good app for keeping track of your cow/calf inventory? The American Angus Association has one but you have to join the association to use it. I have been using registered Angus bulls since '87 but am not a member of the association (as I don't sell registered stock) and don't care to pay $80 a year to join just for the privilege of using their app.

I basically just want something similar to the NCBA Redbook for my Motorola Atrix.

Thanks

 

[TexasBred]

I've never needed anything more than a little spiral notebook (free at the bank) and a ball point pen (also free at the bank). ;-)

 

[johndeerefarmer]

Yes, I carry one of those but it has been so hot the last couple of summers that my ink is running and the pages are falling apart. I always have the cell phone so keeping records there would be convenient and I would have one less thing to remember to carry around:

Right now it's

Cell phone
Notebook and pen
Leatherman
Soapstone
Ear plugs,
Safety glasses
Mandatory John Deere cap
And underwear when I can remember to put them on. :lol:

 

[jgibson]

I don't know of one. I think it would be a great idea for someone to write one.

 

[M5farm]

just use your notebook feature or I have outlook and sync it with my phone so any date I enter something it transfer to my pc calender. I also time stamp my photos and upload them to photo bucket Automatically so i have a record

 

[Anonymous]

I use my calendar in the phone, record sex, tag #, mommas tag #, approximate birthweight.
Then I back it all up

 

[M5farm]

the play store has an app called livestock manager.

 

[slick4591]

On my iPhone it said F-Track Live was free for 30 days then you had to subscribe. No idea of the costs. Hope it helps.

http://www.farmapps.com.au/

 

[Anonymous]

I just looked that f track too. Of the 6 or so apps available it looks to be pretty good. No ratings yet, and I wonder how much the full app is.

 

[Bigfoot]

What ever you use paper or electronic, back it up. I lost my calving records in a tornado once. It made an over all bad situation much worse. It was over a year and a half before I got everything back on paper the way I wanted them. Sure anybody can look at a cow that's springing, and tell she will calf. Its a pain in the you know what to have your herd with no breeding dates and calving dates.

 

[SRBeef]

Cattlemax now keeps the program on the cloud but is accessible through any smartphone with internet access. The mobile app is simplified. Full program is very good, imho.

Jim

 

[gimpyrancher]

I never back up my phone. I regularly back up my computer. So I text important data to myself so it ends up in it's own e-mail folder.