Livestock Farm Record Keeping: Know Your Costs, Grow Your Farm

The problem: you can't improve what you can't see

Many livestock farmers know their animals well but struggle to answer simple money questions: what does feed cost per animal, which batch performed best, are we actually making a profit?

When records sit in notebooks, receipts and memory, those answers are guesswork.

What to track

Animals: numbers, ages, health events and losses.

Feed: what you bought, what it cost and how much each group eats.

Production: eggs, milk, weight gain or animals sold.

Money: every expense and every sale, linked to the animals they relate to.

Why it pays off

With regular records you can spot rising feed costs early, see which practices work, and make buying and selling decisions with confidence instead of instinct.

Making it easier

We're building Faunitra to bring animals, feed, production, expenses and sales into one place, so farmers can follow performance as the farm grows. It's still in development — until then, a simple, consistent record beats no record at all.