Logging Milk Weights
Milk is recorded a test day at a time, not one doe at a time. You enter a date, pick what kind of record it is, and work down a list of your does.
That matches how milking actually goes — you weigh the string in one session, not one animal on a Tuesday and another on a Thursday.
Recording a Test Day
🥛 Milk tab → add a milk record
- Test date
- Test type — see below
- Doe test results — enter weights for each doe in the list
- Notes, if anything about the day was unusual
- Save
Test Types
| Type | What it is |
|---|---|
| Unofficial (Farm Record) | Your own weights, for your own use — most days |
| DHIR 20 — Standard (Supervised) | Official supervised test |
| OS 40 — Owner/Sampler | Official, owner-sampled |
| ADGA ITP — Innovative Test Plan | |
| DHIR 23 — One-Day/One-Trip | |
| Group Test |
Official plans also record the supervisor/tester name and tester ID, which is what makes the record official rather than just accurate.
Most farms use Unofficial for routine weights and switch to the appropriate DHIR plan on official test days.
Units
Weights follow your milk format preference — decimal pounds, pounds and ounces, or kilograms. Set it in Settings → ⚖️ Measurement Preferences; it applies to entry and display both.
A Withdrawal Warning You Should Not Ignore
If you record milk for a doe still inside a medication's milk withdrawal period, the app stops and tells you which does are affected, what they were treated with, and how many days remain.
You can proceed — there are legitimate reasons, like recording a back-dated correction or logging production from milk you dumped. But you shouldn't do it by accident, which is the point of the warning.
Consistency Beats Precision
The curves smooth small variation, and trends matter more than any single day. A season of approximate weights is far more useful than a month of perfect ones followed by nothing.
Start a Lactation First
When a doe freshens, start her lactation. That's what enables days-in-milk, the lactation curve, 305-day projections, and year-over-year comparison. Weights logged without one still record, but they don't tell you as much.