Throf Reports and Dashboards: About 20 Excel Reports for Farms

Throf gives sheep and goat breeders about 20 Excel report types, a PDF file per animal and live dashboards for feed conversion, breeding, health, milk, nutrition, daily operations and finance. Each report can cover the whole farm, one group or selected animals. Advanced reports are included in the Gold and Enterprise plans.

Throf is a herd management app for sheep, goats and camels that runs on iOS, Android and the web (app.throf.com). Every record your team enters, from a birth to a weighing to an expense, ends up in a report or a chart. This guide explains which reports exist, how dashboards differ from reports, and how a breeder uses them each week and before a sale.

What reports and dashboards do on a farm

A notebook tells you what happened. A report tells you what it means. On a sheep and goat farm the questions are always the same: how many ewes are pregnant, who is close to lambing, which lambs are not gaining, how much feed went out, and did the last batch make money?

• Excel reports are lists you export, filter, print or send to a partner, a vet or an accountant.
• Dashboards are live screens with charts that update as your team records data, so you see the state of the farm without exporting anything.
• The PDF per animal is a clean file for one head: identity, history and records in one document.

The Excel reports, grouped by use

Throf groups its reports around the real work of a flock. The list below covers the main types.

Choose the scope before you export

Every report can be scoped three ways:

1. Whole farm: the complete picture, useful for the owner or a partner.
2. One group: a pen or a batch, for example the fattening lambs or the pregnant ewes.
3. Selected animals: a handful of heads you pick, for example the rams you plan to sell.

Scoping matters. A pregnancy report for the whole farm is a planning tool; the same report for one pen becomes the task list for the worker in charge of it. If your pens are not organised yet, read organizing pens and groups first.

A PDF file for every animal: team version and buyer version

Each animal can be exported as a PDF in two versions:

• Farm team version: the full working file, with the history the team needs to manage the animal.
• Buyer version: a cleaner file to share with a buyer, presenting the animal's identity and the records that support its value.

The buyer version is useful when you sell breeding rams or quality ewes. A buyer who sees a clear file with the number and colour tag, breed, parents and weight history trusts the animal more than one sold on word alone.

Live dashboards: the farm on one screen

Dashboards update as records come in from the phone or the web app. Throf has live dashboards for:

• Feed conversion: how feed turns into weight, the key figure in fattening. See feed conversion ratio in fattening.
• Breeding hub: matings, pregnancies, close-to-birth females and births.
• Health: vaccinations, treatments, illnesses and isolation.
• Milk: milking records for dairy goats and ewes.
• Nutrition: meals, feed stock in kg and water.
• Daily operations: what the team recorded and what is pending.
• Finance: expenses, sales, net profit and cost per head.

On large farms the web app at app.throf.com shows these dashboards on a wide screen, which suits an office laptop where the owner or manager reviews the farm each morning.

Which plans include advanced reports

Throf has a free plan for small herds and paid plans by herd size. Advanced reports are in the Gold and Enterprise plans, which fit growing and large flocks where the owner needs to analyse breeding, production and finance in depth. Compare what each plan includes on the pricing page.

How a breeder uses reports every week

Reports only help if someone reads them on a fixed day. A simple weekly routine:

1. Monday, daily work sheet: check what was recorded last week and what was missed.
2. Breeding hub: list females close to birth and prepare lambing pens; check females that should have been confirmed pregnant.
3. Health dashboard: review isolated animals with the vet, and check the withdrawal period report before any sale or milk delivery.
4. Weight and body condition report: spot lambs and kids that are not gaining and move them to a separate group.
5. Nutrition and feed stock: compare consumption with stock so you buy feed before it runs out.
6. Finance dashboard: look at the week's expenses and the cost per head trend.

Twenty minutes a week is enough on most farms, provided the team records consistently.

How to use reports before selling

Before a market day, an Eid season or a sale to a trader, use reports to sell with numbers, not guesses:

1. Export the fattening and weight reports for the batch you plan to sell.
2. Run the drug withdrawal period report on the same animals. Any animal still under a withdrawal period set by your vet stays on the farm.
3. Check the finance dashboard for cost per head, so your asking price covers what each animal cost to raise. See how to price livestock for sale.
4. Export the buyer version PDF for breeding animals or premium heads.
5. After the sale, record it so the sales report and net profit stay accurate.

Get started

Download Throf from the App Store or Google Play, or open app.throf.com in your browser. Start with the free plan for a small herd, and choose a paid plan by herd size when the flock grows.