Grow-Out Lots & Carcass Data
🍖 Meat tab. If you don't see it, enable Meat in Settings → 🎯 Farm Focus.
Lots
A lot is a group of animals managed together through grow-out — a kid crop, a batch bought in, animals headed for the same processing date.
Lots make the numbers comparable. Feed cost, gain, and yield mean something across a group raised the same way; across your whole herd they don't.
Weights Through Grow-Out
Weights recorded on individual animals roll up into the lot. What matters for meat:
- Birth weight — the baseline everything else is measured from
- Weigh-ins through grow-out
- Adjusted 90-day and 120-day weights — normalized to a fixed age so animals weighed on different dates compare fairly
- Average daily gain
A kid weighed at 80 days and one weighed at 100 days aren't comparable raw. Adjusted weights fix that, which is why sire comparisons in Sire/Dam Performance use them rather than whatever the scale last said.
Carcass Data & Dressing Percentage
Record the live weight at slaughter and the carcass weight, and dressing percentage is calculated for you:
dressing % = carcass weight ÷ live weight
Goats typically run 45–55%, varying with breed, condition, age, and how the carcass was trimmed.
Herd Manager surfaces per-animal figures, herd averages, and a yield leaderboard — so keep-or-cull decisions rest on measured yield rather than on which animal looked best in the pen.
Dressing percentage is sensitive to fill, condition, and what the processor counts as carcass weight. Comparing your figures against another farm's — or against a published average — only works if both were measured the same way. Your own animals against each other, processed by the same plant, is the comparison that tells you something.
Costs and Return
Feed costs allocated to animals in a lot, plus purchase price and sale income, give a realized profit per animal and per lot. See expense tracking and income tracking.
That's the number most meat operations never calculate and most need: not what the animals sold for, but what they earned.