Manage the flock from a clear animal list, then open each sheep for the details behind it.
The Flock Management module is the main place for viewing animals in HerdDeck Shepherd. It shows the active flock, past animals, groups, identifiers and animal status in one structured page.
From this page, you can search the flock, filter animals, open an individual sheep card, review key details and move to deeper records such as weight, treatment, pedigree, notes and financial history.
The module shows the flock as a structured animal list. Each row represents one sheep and gives quick access to the animal card.
You can search for animals by identifiers such as tag or name. This is useful when the farmer is standing in the barn, looking at one animal and needs to open the correct record quickly.
The flock page supports practical filtering so the farmer does not have to scan the full flock every time.
Clicking an animal opens its individual card.
The daily task is simple: find the right animal quickly and understand its current status before opening the full record.
In HerdDeck, the flock page is built for that task. You can review animals by status, group, sex or other practical identifiers. You can separate active animals from animals that have been sold, died, culled or otherwise left the flock. You can search by tag or name and open the sheep card directly from the result.
This makes the flock page more than a storage list. It is the main entry point for animal-level work.
Many livestock apps show animals as a flat list. The list may contain tag number, sex, breed and birth date, but the farmer still has to open many records one by one to understand what is happening.
This does not mean the data is missing. It means the animal list is not doing enough work.
HerdDeck keeps the flock list close to the animal record.
On the flock page, the farmer can search, filter and open a sheep without leaving the main flock view. The animal card then shows the details needed for that individual animal.
For example:
The difference is practical: the flock page is not just a place to store animals. It is the screen where you find the animal, check its status and open the correct record.
The module shows the flock as a structured animal list. Each row represents one sheep and gives quick access to the animal card.
The list is used for daily checks, animal lookup, group review and separating current animals from past animals.
You can search for animals by identifiers such as tag or name. This is useful when the farmer is standing in the barn, looking at one animal and needs to open the correct record quickly.
The flock page supports practical filtering so the farmer does not have to scan the full flock every time.
Typical filter use includes:
The goal is to reduce the list to the animals relevant to the current task.
Clicking an animal opens its individual card.
The animal card contains the deeper record for that sheep. This is where the farmer can review identity information, status, group, dates, notes and module-specific records linked to the animal.
From the animal card, the farmer can review weight history.
The module supports weight tracking and shows weight changes over time. Where enough data exists, the record can show daily weight gain, making it easier to compare growth between animals or check whether an animal is performing as expected.
The animal card can be used to review treatments linked to that sheep.
This allows the farmer to check what was applied, when it was applied and which animal received it. It helps prevent treatment history from being kept separately from the animal record.
When pedigree information is available, the animal card can show family records for that sheep.
This is useful for breeding review, replacement selection and reporting, especially when the farmer needs to check parentage instead of searching through separate notes.
The module separates animals that are still active from animals that have left the flock.
This matters because sold, dead or culled animals should not clutter the active flock list, but their records should still remain available for history, reporting and financial review.
Animals can be reviewed by group or category.
This is useful for lambs, breeding ewes, rams, sale animals, replacement candidates or other farm-specific groupings. The farmer can narrow the list before opening individual records.
The animal record can contain notes and details that do not fit into a simple list column.
This keeps important observations attached to the correct sheep instead of leaving them in notebooks, messages or memory.
Flock Management is the base module of HerdDeck Shepherd.
It is where the farmer finds animals, filters the flock, opens individual records and checks the information needed for the next farm task. Other records such as treatments, weight, pedigree, reports and finance become more useful when each one is tied back to the correct sheep.
