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Feedlot · Animals

Every animal has its own record, and its own weight forecast.

Each weigh, pen move, dose and day of feed lands on the animal it belongs to. From that record, PaddockPath works out what each animal weighs today, and what it will weigh over the next twelve weeks.

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Pen 14 of a feedlot drawn from above, eight of its cattle in the pen and at the bunk, the day’s feed along it. Each is outlined in turn and takes a label with its tag and its weight that day; the last is steer 1048.
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1048

On feedlot

EID 982 000361572048 · Steer · Angus · Pen 14

Weight 26 Oct

516kgForecast

Likely 507–525

Last 489 kg · 17 days ago

Lifetime ADG

1.88kg/d

Very likely 1.67–2.09

Cost to date

$454.99

79 days on feed

Cost of gain

$3.07/kg

since the 8 Aug scale

At a 10,000-head feedlot

Since April, 1.8 million days of feed have each been costed to the animal that ate them. In a month, 4 in 10 of its animals ate in more than one pen, and each day was costed to the pen the animal stood in.

From one feedlot’s records: feed costed from 5 April to 15 October 2026, pens over the 30 days to 8 October.

The record

Everything the feedlot does lands on the animal it was done to. Every day adds to it, from the truck to the invoice.

Follow one animal’s stay
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  1. 516 kg today, forecast

    Likely 507–525 · last 489 kg, 17 days ago

    Crush

  2. Grower v13 · 12.2 kg that day

    898 kg since 8 Aug · Starter to 28 Aug

    Feeding

  3. Pen 14 since 8 Aug

    Costed its own share of the pen’s feed each day

  4. $454.99 to date

    feed $394.99 · fees $53.50 · doses $6.50

    Billing & custom feeding

  5. Booked on ORD-0014 for 27 Nov

    Pour-on drench and vaccine on 9 Oct · withheld to 20 Nov

    Health

The forecast

Each animal gets a weight curve of its own. It comes from what the animal is and how it has grown, and it is kept current every day.

One steer’s curve. Steer 1046’s weighs so far and, from its last one, twelve weeks ahead: built from its own weighs and from what cattle like it gain at the feedlot. Its weight today is read off the curve.

Steer 1046 · Angus · Pen 14

  1. 1

    The prediction

    652 kg on 18 Jan. The middle line: where it’s most likely to be, day by day.

  2. 2

    Likely

    629–676 kg on 18 Jan. The darker range around the prediction.

  3. 3

    Very likely

    608–697 kg on 18 Jan. The lighter range. Both open out the further ahead it looks, and start again from each weigh.

Two steers in one pen, two curves. Steers 1046 and 1094 share Pen 14 and weigh within 20 kg of each other on Mon 26 Oct. One is an Angus weighed five times, the other a Wagyu cross in from another lot. By 18 Jan their curves are 100 kg apart.

Steer 1046

Angus · In with 1048 on 8 Aug

Breed
Angus Its first gain is what the feedlot’s own Angus gain.
Starts from
506 kg on 9 Oct Its last weigh, well short of where Angus slow down.
Its weighs
5 since 8 Aug Gaining 1.45 kg a day, slower than most. The curve follows it.

Steer 1094

Wagyu × Angus · In from another lot on 28 Sep

Breed
Wagyu × Angus Slows sooner, as Wagyu-bred cattle do.
Starts from
504 kg on 9 Oct Its last weigh, past where Wagyu-bred cattle begin to slow.
Its weighs
3 since 28 Sep Too few to lean on yet, so the curve leans on what Wagyu-bred cattle gain here.

At a 10,000-head feedlot

8 in 10 forecasts land within 10% of the scale. Where the last weigh was less than a month old, the typical miss was 13 kg.

10 Aug – 10 Aug · 79 weighs10 Aug – 12 Aug · 231 weighs10 Aug – 17 Aug · 326 weighs10 Aug – 18 Aug · 329 weighs10 Aug – 19 Aug · 386 weighs10 Aug – 20 Aug · 406 weighs10 Aug – 25 Aug · 429 weighs10 Aug – 27 Aug · 503 weighs10 Aug – 28 Aug · 584 weighs10 Aug – 31 Aug · 794 weighs10 Aug – 1 Sep · 1,026 weighs10 Aug – 2 Sep · 1,297 weighs10 Aug – 3 Sep · 1,497 weighs10 Aug – 7 Sep · 1,593 weighs10 Aug – 8 Sep · 2,107 weighs10 Aug – 9 Sep · 2,447 weighs10 Aug – 10 Sep · 2,635 weighs10 Aug – 11 Sep · 3,056 weighs10 Aug – 14 Sep · 3,604 weighs10 Aug – 15 Sep · 3,685 weighs10 Aug – 16 Sep · 3,686 weighs10 Aug – 18 Sep · 4,029 weighs10 Aug – 23 Sep · 4,090 weighs10 Aug – 29 Sep · 4,294 weighs10 Aug – 30 Sep · 4,701 weighs10 Aug – 1 Oct · 4,829 weighs10 Aug – 5 Oct · 4,830 weighs10 Aug – 7 Oct · 4,979 weighs10 Aug – 8 Oct · 5,466 weighs10 Aug – 13 Oct · 5,678 weighs10 Aug – 15 Oct · 5,950 weighs

Every weigh over nine weeks, lined up from the lightest forecast to the heaviest. The line is the forecast, and each dot is what the scale read. The band is 10%, so a dot inside it landed within 10% of the scale.

5,950 weighs of 5,078 animals on 31 days, 10 August to 15 October 2026, each scored against the forecast saved before the scale saw it. They came 7 to 170 days after the animal’s last weigh: 7 in 10 more than a month after, half more than two months.

The herd

Read the herd one animal at a time. Filter it, group it and move it to any day, and every figure still comes from the animals in it.

“Project to” moves every expected weight to the day you pick, and the band says where the herd will stand.

Ridgeway’s 508 head: 7 over 600 kg on Mon 26 Oct, 401 by Mon 18 Jan.

The pen’s sheet plots each animal’s weight today against its gain, and marks the ones well ahead of their penmates or behind.

Pen 14’s middle 8 in 10 span 84 kg. In larger pens at a 10,000-head feedlot, they span about 79 kg.

Weight analysis lines up each supplier’s cattle by day on feed, from each animal’s own weighs.

Same ration, same pens: Yarran Downs’s Angus gain 1.65 kg a day, Wattle Flat’s 1.20. In one breed at a 10,000-head feedlot, suppliers’ typical gains run from 0.79 to 1.58 kg a day.

Each animal’s cost of gain runs from a weigh inside its costed days to today’s forecast weight.

1048 on Mon 26 Oct: $3.07 a kg. Today’s cost over the gain at its last weigh would say $3.76, because the 17 days since add cost and no gain.

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FAQ

Questions about animals and forecasts.

How is an animal’s forecast worked out?

From its own traits, its breed, genetic class and repro class among them, and from its own weighs. The more it has been weighed, the more its curve follows its own growth.

What if an animal hasn’t been weighed for months?

Its record says so. After 90 days without a weigh the animal is flagged, with a note that its figure now leans on the model, and its range is wider for the time since the scale saw it.

Does it work without signal?

Yes. Each animal’s record and forecast are kept on the phone, so the Animals and Pens pages open and record anywhere, and send when coverage is back.

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Can we bring our old weighs?

Yes. Earlier weighs come across with each animal when your register is loaded, so trends and forecasts have history from the first night.

How do we find an animal?

On the web, by any tag it has carried: EID, visual ID or NLIS ID, including an EID it has since lost. Paste a list of tags and the ones that matched nothing are named.

Can owners see their animals’ forecasts?

Yes, through the links you share with them: their own animals, with weights and forecasts. Your costs and margins stay out.

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