Herdwatch

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Farm management app for farms in the UK and Ireland

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4.4 /5
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Value for Money
3.8/5
Features
3.9/5
Ease of Use
4.4/5
Customer Support
4.6/5

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Oliver
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Market leader for cattle management s/w

Reviewed on 2023/05/18

Support, in-app and on-line, is responsive and clear.

Support, in-app and on-line, is responsive and clear.

Pros

There is very little at you might want to do in a beef enterprise that HerdWatch doesn't facilitate, record and manage.

Cons

There is a progressive roadmap for development to broaden the capability of HerdWatch into land management and financial performance aspects. In the future, it will have greater application for management of agri-environment schemes.

John
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

JHreview

Reviewed on 2023/10/01

Very good

Very good

Pros

Information all in one place, and very good reports available for the likes of bord bia audit

Cons

It would be great if you could select the features you use most frequently and have a home screen that they could be kept in

Caroline
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Herdwatch

Reviewed on 2022/08/23

Overall i am happy with the app, i have been using it for less than 6 months so still have a lot to...

Overall i am happy with the app, i have been using it for less than 6 months so still have a lot to learn about it and to discover more of the features

Pros

I like that the information can be fed into and from other apps. The main features i use are the feed management and the remedy management and find these useful for tracking

Cons

One particular area that i find difficult to use is the spray feature

Timmie
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Herdwatch

Reviewed on 2023/05/11

Detailed history for each animal and ability to get due dates etc for Calving, repeats etc at any...

Detailed history for each animal and ability to get due dates etc for Calving, repeats etc at any stage of the day.

Pros

The history and tracking of animal medication. The Ancestral and calving performance of all animals in my herd

Cons

Getting a message to check the daily watchboard when there are none

Bridget
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Herdwatch is adaptable to the needs of individual farming businesses

Reviewed on 2021/09/06

Great for performance recording and med records to meet farm assurance requirements. Especially the...

Great for performance recording and med records to meet farm assurance requirements. Especially the fact that expiry dates on withdrawal periods are worked out automatically.

Pros

Weight recording is a doddle and the whole herd can be recorded on one page.

Cons

That when recording meds such as wormer where doses are calculated depending on weight there is a cattle have to be entered in batches according to their weight which is time consuming.

Jackie
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

HW

Reviewed on 2020/10/18

Keeping our medicine book up together and all other paperwork

Keeping our medicine book up together and all other paperwork

Pros

The stress free programme, easy to adapt. No complications. You can monitor everything even using your phone when out about on farm. Don’t have to write any info down it can be put straight on to phone. Because so much TB paperwork now with tracers I keep them in there groups and send info direct to vets no writing ear numbers down it’s just perfect

Cons

Nothing really. I just think it’s brilliant. If in difficulty HW are there to help you

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you so much for rating Herdwatch 5 stars, it means a lot to us.

Denis
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Herdwatch

Reviewed on 2020/10/13

Overall I find it great for Bord boa/Dept of ag compliance. Next gen was a step forward but at the...

Overall I find it great for Bord boa/Dept of ag compliance. Next gen was a step forward but at the price it would want to be as good as it is

Pros

The compliance record keeping. The withdrawal period reminders. Ease of access on phone to feed/spraying records.

Cons

I find the breeding section confusing and have stopped using the heat reminder as my old style wall chart is more to my style. Has been disappointing trying to record vet visits eg not recognising products

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you for your 4 star overall rating, and we note your comments about the breeding section, which have been passed on to our product team - again thanks for the feedback, this is so important to us.

Dermot
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  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Good app

Reviewed on 2022/03/06

Saves time

Saves time

Pros

Breeding section. Heats and repeats.
Weight recording

Cons

Adding a stock bull but I figured it out eventually. It wasn’t actually too bad.

Nigel
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  • Industry: Dairy
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Herdwatch Review

Reviewed on 2020/12/29

The App has greatly improved recently with the ironing out of some previously irritating faults. Am...

The App has greatly improved recently with the ironing out of some previously irritating faults. Am now very happy with it.

Pros

Easy to load, easy to understand. Generally very slick.

Cons

Not great for generating to-do lists. These are still good to have sometimes.

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you for your 5 star review, we appreciate your feedback, it's what keeps us going and innovating for farmers

Lara
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Good and easy to use 99% of time

Reviewed on 2020/10/12

Easy to use.

Easy to use.

Pros

Very easy to use and the update has made it even better

Cons

Please do t have your down time 7.30-8 pm as this is the time my husband gets indoors for the day abd I quickly try and update all the calves he’s tagged.

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you so much for the 5 star rating and the feedback, which we always take on board. Just to explain, that downtime between 7.30 and 8pm is not a Herdwatch issue, it's a BCMS (Government System) window which they use to update their records nightly, and during that time their systems may be unavailable - which we have no control over. I hope this helps. Thanks again.

Jamie
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  • Industry: Dairy
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Herdwatch

Reviewed on 2021/10/05

Very good

Very good

Pros

That all records are to hand and easy to find

Cons

No mobility scoring, which is helpful to use

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you for your review Also some good news, mobility scoring is coming in the very near future - it's currently in testing

Eustace
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  • Industry: Dairy
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Pros & Cons

Reviewed on 2021/01/04

Very good with very good back up

Very good with very good back up

Pros

Registration and Movements. Ease of use and easier than using ag food

Cons

Breeding. Repeats are not picked up on the watchboard. Ie if the cow is ai d as a repeat the cow remains on the watch board. Also entering a serve could be made more streamlined

Eoin
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Convenient and Excellent Service

Reviewed on 2020/10/12

Pros

Very easy to use and the customer service is excellent! Can add a medicine remedy as soon as the animals are treated which saves so much time preparing for the Bord Bia audit.

Cons

Even though I contact Herdwatch Spring 2020 requesting the ability to inlcude milk recordings, they told me they would add it to a list of considerations for the new Herdwatch 2.0 App. Unfortunately this did not make the cut. I think it would greatly benefit determining what AI Bull to give during the Breeding Season.

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you for your 4 star rating - much appreciated. We took your feedback on board regarding milk recordings, and we are working on that right now and it will definitely be included it in an upcoming release.

Adam
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  • Industry: Food Production
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Useful product

Reviewed on 2021/04/06

Pros

ease of use, it allows animals to be clearly found in the herd list with the search function

Cons

Animal tag numbers can be hard to read, instead of UK 9 124222 1111 3 it come out uk912422211113 which is harder to read

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you so much for the vote of confidence and the constructive feedback, it's what keeps us innovating for farmers

Gareth
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Review

Reviewed on 2021/02/06

Saved hours of manual work for the farm assurance assesment

Saved hours of manual work for the farm assurance assesment

Pros

Ease of registering calves,
Vet and med recording of medicines and their useage
Breeding tab, ease of use

Cons

Nothing, it all seems easy to use if we wwant to use it

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you for your great review, it's what keeps us innovating for farmers

Ian
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Animal life in a box.

Reviewed on 2020/12/18

Great for sorting cattle into groups, pulling out ones to market. Keeping records for cattle is...

Great for sorting cattle into groups, pulling out ones to market. Keeping records for cattle is made easy.
Ticks a box for Farm assurance.

Pros

The smart list on animal s.
The AI bulls are there to pick from.

Cons

Be good if you could put 2 drugs on at once to an animal.
Getting a sheep platform would be magic.

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you so much for the 5 star rating, and we love your chosen title "Animal life in a box" ;-) Happy Herdwatch'in!

ROBERT
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Useful app

Reviewed on 2021/07/25

Pros

Good app but would like medicine and weight recording and breeding records.

Cons

Fertilizer and slurry records and grass cover records

Response from Herdwatch

Dear Robert, thank you for the glowing review - We hear you on the fertiliser recording, watch this space we're working on it! Also, just to clarify, medicine, weights and breeding are all available already ;-)

michael
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

review

Reviewed on 2020/10/14

Pros

learning the product as transitioned from previous version. Change is always different - was very familiar with previous product and find this slightly more complicated working around it

Cons

learning where the items are in the menu.

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you for your amazing 4 star rating, it gives us the motivation to continue to improve Herdwatch with our monthly releases, by listening to farmers, as we have done for the past 7 years ;-)

Matt
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  • Industry: Farming
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for Free Trial
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Conversion to Print Format

Reviewed on 2020/11/03

I would always like to be able to view everything by cow number, not necessarily as default but...

I would always like to be able to view everything by cow number, not necessarily as default but always as an option

Pros

Capacity to print reports is excellent but there should be the option to print more data

Cons

There should be a capacity to print all smart lists/groups/empty cows

Response from Herdwatch

Thank you very much for the feedback and your 4-star rating, much appreciated. We are constantly working on expanding the reporting functionality - watch this space