Digital tip

A cartoon cow holding a light bulb Rather than an office based tip, this digital tip outlines a simple app that quickly allows you to set and plan all dates and activities relating to ewe joining dates (i.e. pregnancy scanning, vaccinations etc).

Next generation Lambing Planner app

The Lambing Planner is a simple tool that allows you to change a lambing date or a joining date to see the impacts of that on other key times in the reproductive year. It also features a short best-practice guide for lambing. It is available as a hand-held, paper based tool or as an App in both Android and iOS formats. The free app helps producers plan and assess the effect of joining dates and lambing dates on key management activities during the reproductive cycle. The calendar displays the current activities and stages of pregnancy or lactation with more detailed information at the click of a button.

Screenshot of an app for planning lambing.

New upgrades have improved the functionality of the app, and allows users to register, save plans to the cloud, be notified of upcoming tasks, share plans with others and save plans to their calendar.

Features such as registering an account, allowing reminders for key dates and saving the plans to the cloud to allow access on other devices. Tasks can also be marked as complete, notes can be added, and plans can be uploaded to digital calendars, or shared via PDF. The app still has the key nutrition and condition scoring information included as well as best practice guides, with the addition of an instructional explainer video.