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Cattle Ledger

A farm ledger for a small herd: what every animal has cost, down to the pound.

iPhone, iPad and Mac. In development.

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Cattle Ledger keeps your herd, the daily grain, the hay and every bill in one place, and splits shared costs fairly across the animals. Log today's feeding in one tap and see what each steer will cost per pound by butcher day.

The Today screen: a Log today's feeding button, totals for the herd and upcoming cull and cut-and-wrap dates. The Today screen: a Log today's feeding button, totals for the herd and upcoming cull and cut-and-wrap dates.
Log the whole herd's feeding in one tap
The Herd screen: cards for Clover, a Highland pet, and Kobe, a Wagyu steer, each with an ear tag and cost to date. The Herd screen: cards for Clover, a Highland pet, and Kobe, a Wagyu steer, each with an ear tag and cost to date.
Every animal's cost to date at a glance
The Butcher screen: Kobe's projected cost per pound, hanging weight and butcher fee. The Butcher screen: Kobe's projected cost per pound, hanging weight and butcher fee.
Projected cost per pound by butcher day
The Costs screen: the herd total, the biggest category and spending by category. The Costs screen: the herd total, the biggest category and spending by category.
See exactly where the money went

Screens show sample data.

What it does

Every day

  • Opens on today, with one button to log every animal's daily ration.
  • It won't log the same day twice, and shows everything logged today so double entries are easy to spot.
  • Coming up lists cull and cut-and-wrap dates with countdowns.

The herd

  • A card for each animal: ear tag, name, breed, purpose and cost to date.
  • Age, birth date, purchase price and daily ration.
  • Mark an animal sold or deceased instead of deleting its history.

Grain and hay

  • Grain to date, grain cost and the last 30 days for each steer.
  • Log grain for several steers at once; the last price is remembered.
  • Log hay by the bale and choose who ate it; the cost is split for you.

Butcher day

  • Projected cost per pound at cull, from an estimated or actual hanging weight.
  • The butcher fee moves from projected to actual when you mark it paid.

Costs

  • Nine categories, from feed and hay to vet, fencing and transport.
  • Costs can apply to the whole herd, just the beef animals, or one animal, and shared costs are split automatically.
  • Spending by category, and every cost in one list.

Sync and backup

  • Syncs through your own iCloud and works offline.
  • Backup export and import; importing only adds what's missing.

The details

Works on
iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later, and Mac with macOS 15 or later.
Sync
Your own private iCloud.
Privacy
Nothing is sent to me, and it asks for no special permissions. Read the privacy page.