During the feedback collection period following the release of batch entry for health events in late July, the EasyKeeper team had the opportunity to focus on making some highly-requested updates.
Enhancements to heath events and health event reminders
The enhancements to potential duplicate event checking introduced with batch entry for health events has been added to the per-animal add health event flows and the add health event reminder flows.
New fields added to animal profile
Two new fields have been added to the Description section of the animal profile:
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our newest feature, batch entry for health events.
No more entering records individually! Batch entry revolutionizes the process by creating events to be applied to all — or just some — of the animals in your herd. Now, with just a few clicks you can add an unlimited number of health records to your herd at one time.
Save time while improving records accuracy
The benefit of recording your animals’ health records in a batch is twofold:
Applying animal records via the event templates significantly shortens the amount of time it takes to enter the…
[ read more ]We are excited to have released a highly requested enhancement to the Add Pedigree Animal function. These updates greatly speed up the process of adding animals that are already in the herd’s data to animal pedigrees.
The first step of adding an animal to a pedigree now provides a lookup via a type-ahead search. As you start typing in the animal’s Full Name, Barn/Nickname, Registration id, or any of its identification numbers including tattoos, id tags, RFID or Scrapie program ids, matches from the herd’s data will display for selection. Selecting the animal adds it and any of its ancestors…
[ read more ]EasyKeeper was featured in the Northern Nevada Business Weekly this month after we joined the Adam’s Hub business incubator in Carson City. You can read the article below, or find it on the NNBW website.
“Herd Smarter, Not Harder” is the motto of EasyKeeper Herd Manager, a software-as-a-service company that aims to disrupt the world of goat production. The young company already has hundreds of subscribers. To accelerate their growth, EasyKeeper recently became a member of the business incubator at Adams Hub for innovation in Carson City.
EasyKeeper Founder and CEO Jean Harrison was a 4-H Member who grew up…
[ read more ]We are excited to add our first tool to the EasyKeeper Extension, the Pearson’s Square rations balancer. With this tool you’ll be able to determine the proper mix of two different feedstuffs to reach a target nutritional percentage. The Pearson’s Square is incredibly useful when you are mixing rations to optimize weight and production or eliminate feed waste.
We currently support a large number of feedstuffs as well as calculations for crude protein, total digestible nutrient, calcium and phosphorus, but we would like to hear from you about any other feedstuffs or nutrients you’d find valuable to have…
[ read more ]Our exciting developments this summer have been fueled by the confidence of several forward-thinking investors this year. It’s been incredible to talk with folks about the growth potential of the goat industry and see them not only embrace that vision, but choose to make the investments that allow us to move forward in bringing the future of herd management technology.
We are excited to share with you everything that’s been happening and give you a quick overview of what we’re working on with…
[ read more ]We are pleased to announce the new EasyKeeper Extension section of the EasyKeeper website, the first of many planned Community pages.
EasyKeeper Extension will be the place to go for goat herd management stories and information, including a resource library of articles contributed by staff and industry experts on goat herd management, product how-to videos for the EasyKeeper goat software, subscriber highlights – and some stuff that’s just plain fun!
Click on Extension in the website’s menu to access this new section.
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We are pleased to announce the release of one of our most highly-requested features, EasyList. EasyList is an email version of your herd task and activities schedule. Its format and function are similar to the Dashboard in the EasyKeeper herd management software.
With EasyList, users can stay on top of what’s happening in their herd without needing to log in to EasyKeeper.
To meet the needs of herd owners with different needs, EasyList is highly customizable. Users can select which day(s) of the week that they want to receive an updated EasyList as well as the number of weeks in advance…
[ read more ]EasyKeeper Herd Manager for Goats is now simply EasyKeeper Herd Manager, with a new look and feel that will leave you feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. The new site/app is result of user input, many moons of hard work and coding, lots of meetings and drawings, a lot of laughs and a few tears.
The new look is easy on the eyes, with an easy on-demand slide out navigation on the pubic site giving you access to a news area, clearer product descriptions and less clutter. Right above the slide out navigation you’ll find a persistent button that’ll always get you…
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