askcust develops livestock management software: a card for every animal with identification, herd movements, veterinary treatments, weighing, milk yields and reproduction, feed and data for Ukraine's Unified State Register of Animals. For farms that keep herd records in logbooks and spreadsheets while the livestock specialist knows each cow by heart.
Livestock management software is a system in which every animal has a card with its identification number, origin and full history of events: birth or purchase, moves between groups, vaccinations and treatments, weighing, milk yields, insemination, calving and removal from the herd. Unlike farm cost accounting, it counts animals and their productivity rather than money, and links feed and veterinary costs to groups and animals.
The animal card collects every event from birth: moves, vaccinations, treatments, weighing, insemination, calving. The livestock specialist and the vet see the full history by ear tag number instead of leafing through years of logbooks.
An RFID reader or a phone scanner reads the electronic ear tag, and the event is recorded against the right animal. For visual tags there is a number search that checks the animal is actually in the herd.
The vaccination and treatment plan is built by group and age, and the software reminds who is due and when. Treatments are recorded with the medicine and its withdrawal period, so milk and meat from treated animals are not sold too early.
Births, purchases, movements and removals are recorded in the software once, and it prepares a list of events for submission to the Unified State Register of Animals and marks what has already been submitted.
Milk yields, weight gains and feed consumption are linked to groups and periods, so productivity and feed per litre of milk or kilogram of gain are visible by group, not just for the whole farm.
The feature set depends on the species and the farm's type of production; below are typical modules.
Ear tag number, electronic ID, breed, sex, date of birth, origin and group, plus photos and the history of every event in one card available in the office and on the farm.
Births, purchases, moves between groups and farms, sales, slaughter and deaths with documents for each event; the herd on any date by group, age and sex.
Vaccination and treatment plans, treatments with medicines and withdrawal periods, diagnoses and test results, and reminders to the vet about due and repeat treatments.
Insemination, pregnancy checks, drying off, calving and farrowing, an event calendar with reminders and reproduction indicators for the livestock specialist by herd and group.
Yields from milking equipment or test milkings, weighing and average daily gains, and productivity by group and period with charts for the livestock specialist and management.
Feed composition, rations by group, feed issued and stock in store, and feed consumption per unit of output for cost calculations and purchase planning.
An app for a phone or a rugged terminal with tag reading, offline event recording and synchronisation with the office once the barn has a connection.
askcust connects existing equipment through its interfaces; tags, readers, scales and milking equipment are supplied by their manufacturers.
| criterion | Off-the-shelf farm software | Software by askcust |
|---|---|---|
| Species | Built for one type of production, such as dairy; other species need separate products. | Records built around your species and types of production, including mixed farms. |
| Equipment | Works best with the milking equipment and readers of its own manufacturer. | Readers, scales and milking equipment from different manufacturers through their interfaces. |
| Link to accounting | Feed and veterinary medicine costs are written off in accounting separately. | Feed and medicine costs go to BAS and into the cost of products. |
| State register | Depends on whether the vendor has covered the requirements of Ukraine's animal register. | The list of events for the register is formed from the same records. |
| Start | A quick start if the farm's processes follow the logic of the ready-made software. | After a farm survey and migration of herd records from logbooks and spreadsheets. |
| When to choose | A specialised farm with one type of production on one manufacturer's equipment. | Mixed equipment, several farms or species, and a need to link to the farm's accounting. |
askcust goes through logbooks, tags, groups and equipment with the livestock specialist and the vet: which events are recorded, who enters them and which reports management needs.
The structure of the card and events for your species, and a prototype of office and barn screens tested on real animals and tags before development starts.
Animals with tag numbers, dates of birth and event history are migrated from logbooks and spreadsheets and checked against the actual herd during a walk-through.
Events are recorded from a phone or a terminal right in the barn, veterinary reminders and reports go live, and feedback from the livestock specialist and the vet becomes the next releases.
Support, form updates when the animal register's requirements change, connecting new equipment, and new reports for management, the owner and the veterinary service by agreement.
examples of askcust's work →not agriculture, but the same kind of task: records, CRM, automation
Yes. Electronic animal tags follow the ISO 11784 and ISO 11785 standards at 134.2 kHz in two variants, FDX-B and HDX, and the software reads them through handheld or fixed RFID readers with a digital interface. The number from the tag opens the animal's card at once, so events are recorded without typing numbers.
Yes. The card and events are configured per species: insemination, pregnancy, calving and milk yields for cattle; farrowing and fattening groups for pigs; lambing and shearing for sheep and goats. A mixed farm keeps all species in one database with shared feed, veterinary records and reports.
Yes. Births, purchases, movements and removals are recorded in the software once, and it produces a list of events for submission to Ukraine's Unified State Register of Animals and marks what has been submitted. Identification and registration requirements are set by the Ukrainian law on animal identification and registration; the forms are updated when the register's rules change.
Yes. The mobile app on a phone or a rugged terminal keeps the herd cards on the device, records events and tag reads offline and synchronises them with the office as soon as a connection appears. If two people record an event for the same animal, the software shows the conflict instead of silently overwriting data.
The cost depends on the species and types of production, the equipment to connect, such as readers, scales and milking systems, and the volume of records to migrate, not on herd size. askcust estimates the first stage, the animal card, movements and veterinary work, with a fixed scope after a farm survey. Further modules such as reproduction, productivity and feed are estimated separately.
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