For livestock managers

Your eyes stay on the cattle, and the record keeps up.

At the crush the iPad reads your scale and records each weight, dose, giver and gate as the animal walks through, with or without signal. From that one entry the office knows when every animal can leave.

Ahead of a sick pen

You’ll see a pen turning while it’s still a few head. A pen’s treatments and its bunk call are read against its head and its capacity, and the office home names it the morning they add up.

A block of fourteen pens from above over the week to Fri 9 Oct. In Pen 7 the head treated each day turn blue as they go under withholding, 6 more are drafted in to make 96 head in a pen for 90, and Friday's bunk call scores its bunk D; Pen 10 is made up of 12 treated head. On Friday morning the office home names Pen 7 a sick pen and Pen 10 a hospital pen without the name. Pen 5Pen 15Pen 6Pen 16Pen 7Pen 17Pen 8Pen 18Pen 9Pen 19Pen 10Pen 20Pen 11Pen 21All 12 under withholdingMon 5 OctTue 6 OctWed 7 OctThu 8 OctFri 9 Oct96 head of 9014 under withholdingBunk D
Office web

At the crush

At the crush, the animal’s record comes to you, and the call is yours. Its withholding, any open flag and the gate its own figures suggest are above the work before you start, and your tap decides where it goes.

Jack McDermott, Livestock Supervisor, Kylagh Feedlot, at the crush on 15 Oct 2026.
Your device

On your days off

On your days off, the crush still runs the way you set it up. Each dose is worked from the weight just read, rounded up to what the gun can be set to, taken off the batch you chose and named to whoever gave it.

  1. Mon 5
  2. Tue 6
  3. Wed 7
  4. Thu 8
  5. Fri 9
  6. Sat 10 Off
  7. Sun 11 Off
  8. Mon 12 Off
  9. Tue 13 Off
  10. Wed 14
  11. Thu 15
  12. Fri 16
  13. Sat 17
  14. Sun 18

Watching the run

Watch the run from wherever you are, and let an owner watch their own cattle come through. Box head on its picture to put them in a mob or export them, or share one owner’s head by link: they open it with a code and see only their own.

Office web
Shared link

Working together

What the livestock team texts you about is already on a screen in PaddockPath.

When the gear at the crush plays up, the run carries on, and each question is answered where the work was recorded.

  1. Josh 6:50 am “Where’s the wire?”

    Where’s the wire for the scale?

    Your device
  2. Alex 7:40 am “iPad’s flat”

    iPad’s gone flat mid-steer. Lost it?

    Your device
  3. Sam 8:25 am “No EID”

    No EID in this one

    Your device
  4. Mia 11:05 am “Same mob in P9?”

    Third dead in P9 this week. Same mob?

    Office web
  5. Priya 3:10 pm “1048 on 13 Nov?”

    Can 1048 go on the 13 Nov truck?

    Your device

Made for the crush

Made to be read at arm’s length in direct sun, through gloves.

Text never shrinks to fit, the screen stays awake through a run, and a saved record feels different in the hand from a refused one, because your eyes are on the animal.

Your device

FAQ

Questions livestock managers ask.

How fast is it at the crush?

A head takes 16 seconds to weigh and draft, and 1.4 seconds of that is on the iPad.

Crush
Which scales and readers does it work with?

The ones already at your crush, over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or an adaptor. Where a scale has no link, the iPad’s camera reads its display.

Works with
How are deaths recorded?

The phone drafts the death with a cause from your list, the day and up to six photos stamped with the feedlot’s date and time. The office confirms it, and the record keeps the animal as it stood when it died.

Health
Does it help with NFAS?

Every dose names who gave it and its batch, every medicine states its withholding period, and every death keeps its cause, so what an auditor asks for is already in the records.

NFAS & audit

Another question? Email hello@paddockpath.com