Adding & Editing Goats
A complete field reference. If you're just getting your first goats in, start with Adding Your First Goats — this page is the detail behind it.
Adding
🐐 Herd tab → + Add Goat. Only the name is required; everything else can wait.
Editing
Open the goat's profile and tap ✏️ Edit. Every field can be changed at any time.
Field Reference
Basic
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Name (required) | Registered or barn name |
| Barn name | If different from the registered name. There's a setting to show barn names by default throughout the app |
| Breed | 30 breeds. Drives gestation length, weight benchmarks, and which colour options appear |
| Sex | Doe, Buck, or Wether |
| Date of birth | Unlocks age, growth tracking, and kid milestones |
| Status | See below |
| Tag number | Ear tag or collar ID |
Status
Active — In Herd · External Reference · For Sale · Coming Soon · Sold · Processed (Meat) · Deceased · Retired
Only Active counts toward the free plan limit. Archiving is separate and has its own flow.
It changes where the goat appears — external goats leave herd counts, daily care, and pen assignments while staying available for pedigrees and breeding records. The app confirms because it's easy to do by accident and surprising when it happens.
Registration & ID
- Registry — ADGA, AGS, MDGA, NDGA, ABGA, NPGA, CGS and others
- Registration number
- Tattoos — left and right ear or tail web
- DNA case number
- Microchip
- Scrapie ID
Appearance
Colour and marking options are breed-specific — a Nigerian Dwarf offers different patterns from a Nubian, because the breeds genuinely have different recognized colours. There's also a free-text description for anything the pickers don't cover.
Parentage
Sire and dam can each be:
- A goat already in your herd
- An external parent — name, farm, registration for an animal you don't own
- Found via global search across farms sharing to the community pedigree database
Parentage drives pedigrees and COI calculations.
Origin & Purchase
Bred by, purchase date, purchase price, and seller. Purchase price feeds the per-animal cost picture in finances.
Finding Goats
The Herd tab supports search by name, registration, or tag, plus filtering by breed, sex, status, and age, and sorting.