Whether you're bringing home your first goats or your fiftieth, Herdbrary helps you work out the fencing and shelter you'll need, walks you through species-specific care basics, checks a breeding pair before you commit to it, and builds a cut sheet to hand your meat processor — alongside the day-to-day health, weight, and production records that keep the whole household on the same page.
Goats · Sheep · Cattle · Horses · Swine · Rabbits · Poultry · Livestock Guardian Dogs
Start free with no account and no card — add an email whenever you're ready to keep your records safe and open them on your other devices. Most of Herdbrary stays free, with a few advanced tools available by paid subscription. To ensure you get the 14-day free trial, do not subscribe until the free trial is up. Add it to your phone's home screen and it opens and feels like a native app.
No account needed — the demo below is the real app, live, with sample animals to explore.
Most farm record-keeping tools stop at recordkeeping. Herdbrary was built around a different idea — that the app should carry the actual knowledge a homesteader needs, woven into the moment they need it. If this is your first time raising animals, the planning tools and guides below are built to get you started with confidence, not just log what happens after.
Tell it what you're planning to raise, then draw your actual property on a satellite map. For fencing, it estimates the materials you'll need — including correctly calculated corner and gate bracing. For shelter, it tells you how big to build based on real per-species stocking research for the animal and quantity you're planning — all before you buy anything.
Care basics, milking, egg collection, and meat processing content are written per species — sourced from extension offices, veterinary literature, and established agricultural guidance — so you're not guessing on day one.
Before you pair two animals for breeding, run a compatibility check that flags common concerns — like close relation or line breeding risk — so you know what you're getting into before the pairing, not after.
Build a cut sheet that lays out the specific cuts of meat available from your animal, so you walk into the meeting with your processor already knowing your options — and the conversation goes faster because of it.
Run a FECRT (fecal egg count reduction test) right in the app to verify whether your current dewormer is actually still working on your animals — instead of guessing.
Barber pole worm risk depends on sustained local conditions, not a generic seasonal calendar. Alerts are built from the actual weather at your location, day to day.
Health history, weight trends, and breeding records build into something genuinely useful for real decisions — the longer you use it, the more valuable it gets.
Choose the cuts you want from each primal — steak thickness, roast or ground, how many to a package — and Herdbrary turns it into a clean, printable sheet with your animal's details at the top. Hand it over, or send it ahead, and skip the guesswork at drop-off.
Sample shown is a demo animal. The cut sheet builder is part of Premium.
Free to start — no account and no card required. Most of Herdbrary stays free — core animal tracking, health records, and day-to-day tools — covering up to 10 animals per household. Premium unlocks the planning and processing tools that get you ready before you buy, breed, or head to the processor. Try it first with a 14-day free trial (just add an email to start it — no card required); starting the paid subscription ends the trial immediately and billing begins right away.
Start right away and manage your household's animals with no account and no card required, ever.
Unlocks the planning and processing tools that get you ready before you buy, breed, or head to the processor — on top of everything in the free tier.
Tip: since subscribing early cuts the trial short, let the full 14 days run before starting your paid subscription if you want to use the whole trial.
Questions about pricing, billing, or which plan fits your homestead? contact@herdbrary.com
“A homesteader shouldn't have to choose between a tool that tracks their animals and a separate place to learn how to take care of them.”
Herdbrary tries to be both at once.