Herd / Medicine record keeping suggestions please

[Slippery Slope]

Trying to drag myself into the 21st century and make life a bit more efficient so could anyone recommend a computer / tablet / phone type programme / app please.

Seen a couple advertised but would appreciate some real life experiences. Thanks.

 

[Headless chicken]

Uniform agri

 

[Slippery Slope]

Uniform agri

Thanks. Any idea on cost?

 

[Headless chicken]

Thanks. Any idea on cost?

£33 a month with Nmr I think or £1500 if you buy it out right but then there is support to be paid every year the support is worth every single penny

 

[Boysground]

Uniform here. I wouldn't look at anything else.

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[peclova]

We have just gone back to index cards and pencil.

Tried Herdwise and then Uniform. Both just to unreliable for my liking. Painfully slow internet connections, data lost, clumsy software not working due to it not keeping up with operating system upgrades were all starting to send me crazy with rage. Why someone can't produce a simple dairy software package which is as user friendly and reliable as our accounting software mystifies me

 

[Slippery Slope]

We have just gone back to index cards and pencil.

Tried Herdwise and then Uniform. Both just to unreliable for my liking. Painfully slow internet connections, data lost, clumsy software not working due to it not keeping up with operating system upgrades were all starting to send me crazy with rage. Why someone can't produce a simple dairy software package which is as user friendly and reliable as our accounting software mystifies me

Thanks, my concern is that whilst I'm just about computer literate, my patience is somewhat limited when it comes to tapping in info. The whole business of waiting for downloads/uploads/updates etc is the thing that has put me off a tech based solution to record keeping. As cattle numbers increase though I'm getting fed up with the time involved constantly putting pen to paper just to keep farm assurance happy.

 

[Hanspree]

Trying to drag myself into the 21st century and make life a bit more efficient so could anyone recommend a computer / tablet / phone type programme / app please.

Seen a couple advertised but would appreciate some real life experiences. Thanks.

Just been thinking the same. While busy getting on with foraging and land work got behind with the dreaded paper work.
What is herdwatch like? advertised a lot at the moment?
Does Uniform not seem abit expensive? or is it worth it?

 

[Thick Farmer]

I used to use a computer program for this but my computer crashed and I lost all my data.
Started using books again. Takes a bit. Longer but I can always find everything.

 

[Bald Rick]

A4 lever arch file, Word Doc (or Excel) and just print off as many blank tables as you need.
When you need more, print more off.

 

[jerseycowsman]

A4 lever arch file, Word Doc (or Excel) and just print off as many blank tables as you need.
When you need more, print more off.

Yep, that is basically what we do.
Even though we have 4g here it still takes minutes sometimes for these bloody apps to open up and get to a stage where you can tap something in! By then then you could have written everything up and be carrying on with your day

 

[vantage]

A4 page per day diary, clipboard with medicine forms above.Simple and cheap.

 

[Happy hillbily]

Here it's just an exercise book kept in the dairy, 99% of meds are given in the parlour so easy enough to note it down. And very easy to look through it to chase a cows history. Ok im only milking 60 cows, but the last exercise book lasted 10 years. Just keep it simple

 

[Half Pipe]

Border software and a Psion with Eid tag reader.

 

[Slippery Slope]

I've always coped with a paper based system so far but would like to be able to for example type in a cow number and then have a complete medical history for that animal in one section and perhaps breeding history in another. I know that in theory this could be done by having a page in a book per cow but like the idea of not having to run back to the office every time I need to check something. Also like the idea of adding group treatments easily along with an accurate medicine inventory to include batch numbers etc.

 

[Boysground]

Uniform does all that.

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[Rossymons]

Ive just downloaded Herdwatch for the free 30 day trial so we'll see how we go.

 

[In the pit]

Everything you ever need is in the Nmr diaries
Our vets are doing them now because there so good

 

[Dairyfarmerswife]

We are using Uniform now, but prior to that I used the NLMD website and phone app for medicine and movements, which is a lot cheaper. I would have stuck with it but it isn't dairy specific and there was the odd niggle. Overall much simpler to use than uniform though.

 

[Slippery Slope]

Ive just downloaded Herdwatch for the free 30 day trial so we'll see how we go.

I clicked on their advert as well. Seemed to be a more sensible price in comparison to uniform although I'm basing that on the figure quoted above. Has anyone been using the Herdwatch system for a while?