Headgate

The chute screen

One animal at a time, on a phone, in a set of pens with no bars showing. Weight, products, doses, withdrawal, next.

Headgate's chute screen filling a laptop window: Hazel at 1137 lb with a Connect scale button, then two products tapped, each showing its dose, route and meat withdrawal, and a Skip and Save row across the bottom.
Chute mode takes the whole window. The sidebar and the menus are gone, because there is nothing here you would want to reach for by accident.
The same screen on a phone at 390 points wide: the weight readout is the biggest thing on it, and both product doses and their withdrawal periods are readable at arm's length.
The phone is the real one. Everything is sized to be hit with a glove on.

It runs with the phone in airplane mode

Load the session before you leave the house and the whole work list comes with it: every animal, every product, every label dose. Saves queue on the phone and go up on their own when a signal comes back. Nobody has to remember to press anything that evening.

The weight is the first thing

Everything else on the screen is calculated off it. Pair a Tru-Test S3 over Bluetooth and it lands in the box as the animal settles. Type it in, or bring a whole session in from a CSV, and the screen works the same. Bluetooth needs Chrome, or the Headgate app on iPhone.

One tap per product

Pick the products for the session once, and after that every animal gets the same one-tap chips. Tap one and the dose is worked out from this animal's weight, with the route off the label and the day the meat hold clears. Open Adjust if the bottle in your hand says different.

Find the animal in front of you.

The work list is built off whatever you actually gathered: a pasture, a category, cow-calf pairs, or a hand-picked set. At the chute it is a grid of tags. Tap the one that came up, or type the tag number, the name, the ranch ID or the RFID and it filters as you go.

If something comes through that has never been in the book, add it right there. Tag colour, number, category, and it joins the session without leaving the screen.

  • Session 24 head off Home Pasture, 9 processed, 15 left
  • Search Tag, name, ranch ID, RFID, tattoo, registration
  • Skip Put one back in the pen and it stays on the list
The chute picker: counters for pending, processed and skipped, a search box, a New animal at the chute button, and a grid of tag chips for the head still to work.

When the set is done.

The session page is where the morning gets tidied up: who went through, what they got, and anything you want applied to the whole bunch at once rather than one at a time.

The working session page: session name, date, status Open, and buttons to work the session, load it for offline, finish it, or delete and undo everything it recorded.
Delete and undo rolls the whole session back, including the stock it drew down. Use it when a session was started by mistake, not to rewrite what happened.