Animals
Animal records that keep care practical
Homestead Keeper gives backyard farm and hobby farm keepers a local-first animal record system for profiles, groups, daily care, medical records, breeding, pedigree, production, weights, photos, documents, and reports.
Animal profiles
Homestead Keeper supports individual animals, flocks, herds, and groups for chicken keepers, rabbit breeders, goat and sheep owners, small livestock operations, bees where appropriate, and mixed homesteads. Profiles keep species, breed, sex, date of birth, identification, notes, photos, documents, and the record timeline close together.
A chicken flock egg log, a rabbit breeding record, a goat hoof trim reminder, and a vaccination or treatment record can all live beside the animal or group they belong to.
Daily care
Recurring care reminders help routine work stay visible: feeding checks, bedding refreshes, hoof trims, deworming follow-ups, nest box checks, hive inspections, and seasonal care. Completion history turns chores into records instead of one-off tasks.
Field Log entries are built for the moment when something happens and you need to capture it fast. Rich detail, photos, documents, and costs can be added over time.
Medical records
Keep vaccination, medication, treatment, deworming, illness or injury, vet visit, lab test, and health certificate records. Homestead Keeper helps organize what happened and when; it does not provide veterinary advice.
Withdrawal warnings help make milk, egg, or meat records more visible when a treatment record matters for production decisions.
Breeding
Track breeding records, due dates, incubation and lockdown, breeding groups, additional dams or hens, and birth or hatch completion. Offspring creation helps move from a breeding event into real animal records.
Examples include a rabbit breeding record with a kindling date, a goat kidding reminder, or a poultry hatch record with hatch completion.
Pedigree
Pedigree tools connect sire and dam links, off-farm parent names, tattoo or registration fields, and a three-generation pedigree view. This keeps animal history useful even when one parent is not part of your current homestead records.
Production
Log eggs, milk, honey, wool or fiber, meat, wax, and custom products from the animal or group that produced them. Destinations such as stored, sold, used, fed, or discarded help production records become more useful later.
Production records can include sales, buyers, photos, inventory links, reports, CSV export, and withdrawal warnings when applicable.
Weight history, photos, documents, and reports
Weight history supports growth and condition tracking over time. Photos and document attachments help keep registration papers, treatment notes, receipts, and reference images with the record they belong to.
Animal Care and Production reports make daily entries easier to review by season, year, or animal group.
Guides
Deciding what to record
Practical guides about which records are worth keeping, written for people working this out for the first time.
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Homestead Keeper
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Homestead Keeper gives you calm, practical records for animals, gardens, equipment, inventory, property systems, and seasonal work on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.