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Treatments, labels, and what you cannot sell yet

Most treatments are recorded at the chute and land here. What matters afterwards is the lot it came out of and the day the hold clears.

The health records table: a row per treatment with the date, the animal's tag and ranch ID, the type, the product, the exact amount given, the route, the series stage, the lot number and the next due date.
Nine cows worked this morning. Each one shows the amount actually given, not the label dose, because the amount depends on what she weighed.
The same health records on a phone, one card per treatment with the animal, product, amount and lot stacked.

The amount, not the label

Safe-Guard is 2.3 mL per hundredweight. On a 1137 lb cow that is 26.2 mL, on an 1186 lb cow it is 27.3 mL, and both numbers are written down. Reading a row a year later tells you what went into that particular animal.

The lot goes on the record

If the product is linked to stock in your inventory, the lot number is captured without anyone typing it. When a manufacturer recalls a lot, the question "which of my cattle got that one" has an answer rather than a guess.

Series and next due

A two-dose vaccine knows it is on dose two of two, and sets the next due date from the label interval. Anything overdue turns up on the dashboard the morning it is overdue, not the week you happen to look.

The product library.

124 cattle products come loaded, each with the dose the label calls for, the route, and how long the meat and the milk are held.

The vaccines and medications library: counters for 124 products, 0 label confirmed, 124 awaiting confirmation and 29 weight-based, a warning that seeded label values must be checked against the bottle, then products such as Banamine at 2 mL per 100 lb IV only with a 4-day withdrawal.
Every seeded product wears a Check the bottle flag until somebody confirms it against the real label.
The product library on a phone, one card per product with its dose, route and withdrawal period.

Vira Shield 6+VL5 HB
5 mL SQ, neck · label dose per animal (cow) · meat withdrawal 60d

The flag is the point, not an apology for it. Concentrations differ between products with nearly the same name, labels get revised, and a seeded number that nobody checked is exactly the kind of thing that ends up costing somebody a load of cattle. Confirm a product once and the flag comes off it.

What you cannot sell today.

Every animal currently held out of the food chain, the milk tank or the breeding pen, with the treatment that put it there and the day it clears.

The active restrictions page, generated for the ranch and dated, with a print button and a section for expired or expiring products.
It prints. A page you can hand to a buyer, or pin up in the barn before a sale.
The Headgate dashboard: a Today band reading 0 jobs due, 0 overdue, 9 animals restricted, then three panels for Overdue, Due today and Cannot sell, the last listing four tagged animals under meat withdrawal with 8 days left on each.
Nothing overdue, nothing due today, nine head you cannot sell. That last number arrived by itself from this morning's work.
The restrictions board on a phone, one card per animal with the product, the treatment date and the day the hold clears.

It reaches the dashboard

The count sits on the front page under Cannot sell, next to what is overdue and what is due today, with the days left on each one. It is not a report you have to remember to run.

And the animal's own page

Open a cow inside a hold and the warning is the first thing above her records, in red, with the clearing date spelled out. Not a badge you could scroll past.