GOAT HERD & MILK RECORDS
HomeStead
Goat Keeper
HomeStead holds a proper register for every goat you keep: breeding, kidding, milk, health, weights, photos and papers. It runs on the phone in your pocket, in a barn with no signal, and there is nothing to sign up for.
One goat free after the trial.
$24.99 once for the herd.
Goat records usually live in three places at once: a notebook in the feed room, a photo of the papers somewhere in the camera roll, and whatever you can still remember about who her dam was. HomeStead asks for it once and keeps it together.
None of it is compulsory. A pet wether needs a name and a breed. A registered dairy doe you are about to sell needs all of it.
| Field | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Name | Bramble |
| Breed | Nubian |
| Sex | Doe, buck, wether or kid |
| Date of birth | Age is worked out for you |
| Status | Active, sold, deceased or retired |
| Registry and number | ADGA · N0012345 |
| Tattoo, microchip, ear tag | Whichever your registry asks for |
| Sire and dam | Oakhill Maximus · Willow |
| Colour and notes | Free text, as long as you like |
| Photo and papers photo | The goat, and a picture of the paperwork |
MILK
Every milk entry belongs to one doe, on one date, tagged AM or PM. That is the whole input: pick the doe, tap the session, type the weight. Pounds, kilograms, litres or quarts, chosen once in Settings and used everywhere after that.
What comes back out is worth the ten seconds. The home screen totals today across the herd. Each doe's page draws her curve for the lactation, so a drop after a feed change or a hot week is something you can see rather than something you half remember. The milk report turns the same entries into per-doe totals, days in milk and a daily average.
Log the buck and the date you bred her and HomeStead adds your gestation length to it — 150 days out of the box, adjustable in Settings. The record moves through planned, bred, confirmed, kidded and open, and a doe who is close shows up on the home screen five days before she is due.
Record the date, how many kids, any complications and a note on how the dam came through it. Kids you name are created as goats in the register and stay linked to their dam, so the pedigree builds itself as the years go on.
Vaccinations, worming, hoof trims, vet visits and illness, each with the product used, the dose you gave, a cost and a note. HomeStead records what you did. It never tells you what to do next.
Weigh a kid whenever you get the chance and the entries draw a growth line on that goat’s page. Pounds or kilograms, set once in Settings.
One-off, or recurring daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly or on your own interval in days. They arrive at nine in the morning on the day they fall due, and anything overdue waits on the home screen instead of disappearing.
Kid, breeding stock, cull or other, with buyer, price and a currency per sale. Your own record of what left the farm and for how much.
Scroll sideways, or use the arrow keys
Records are only worth keeping if you can get them back out. Each report below is built on the phone and handed straight to the Android share sheet, so it can go to email, a messaging app, or your own files.
Every goat in one table: name, breed, sex, date of birth, registration number, sire and dam. The sheet you print when someone asks what you keep.
Per doe, the total recorded, the number of days in milk, and the daily average across them.
One animal, everything on file. This is the one that goes with a sale or a registry enquiry.
Three spreadsheets: the register, every AM and PM milk entry, and every health event. Open them in anything.
Export is part of the paid tier. Every PDF carries the same line the app carries: HomeStead is a record-keeping tool, not a vet.
PRICING
$24.99one-time
Or $1.99 a month, or $9.99 a year. Every feature is open for the first 14 days after install, with no card. After that the free tier keeps one goat and three reminders.
Every feature is open for 14 days from install. After that the free tier keeps one goat, three active reminders, and shows ads. The full herd, unlimited reminders, the PDF and CSV exports and the removal of ads cost $1.99 a month, $9.99 a year, or $24.99 once.
Nothing is deleted or hidden. Every goat, milk entry and health event you have already logged stays readable and editable. The paywall only sits in front of adding new goats above the first, new reminders above three, and export.
Yes. Records, photos, charts and PDFs are all built on the phone. A connection is only used to serve ads on the free tier.
No, and that is deliberate. It is a record-keeping tool, not a vet. It does not prescribe schedules, doses or treatments. You write every reminder yourself, on your vet’s guidance.
Yes. Each entry belongs to one doe on one date, tagged AM or PM, in pounds, kilograms, litres or quarts. The home screen totals the day and the doe’s page draws her lactation curve.
Not yet. HomeStead is English only at the moment.
Add one goat, log one milking, and the register starts building itself from there.