Which Throf Setup Fits Your Farm? A Guide by Herd Size and Goal

The right Throf setup for your farm depends on three things: how many head you keep, who records the data, and how you earn: milk, meat or trade. A small family flock starts with records, vaccinations and cost. A commercial farm adds staff and reports. A large project works from the web platform. This guide places you in the closest profile and shows the modules, plan and article to follow.

Throf is a sheep and goat management app on iOS, Android and the web (app.throf.com). But a breeder with 50 head behind the house does not need what a company with tens of thousands of animals and dozens of employees needs. So we wrote six use-case guides by profile and four guides by herd size, each one a practical, step-by-step roadmap. Start with the table, read the summary of your profile, then open its full guide.

Decision table: which profile looks like your farm?

Head limits for each plan are on the plans page. If your herd is above 840 head, the Throf team prepares a custom offer on WhatsApp or at +966 920033734.

By herd size: 4 stages

If your first question is the number of head, here are four stages a farm grows through, each with a guide on what changes and how to move to the next one.

The profile guides by activity (trader, dairy, mixed) and the size guides work together: your size guide tells you when to grow, and your activity guide tells you what to track.

How to read your profile

Answer three questions and you will land on the right row of the table:

1. How many head do you have today, and how many in a year? The number decides the plan, and whether a phone is enough or you need the web platform on a laptop.
2. Who records the data? If you record everything yourself, the setup is simple. If you have workers, a supervisor, a vet and an accountant, each one needs an account with clear permissions.
3. How do you earn? Milk means milk records per animal and drying-off on time. Meat means weights and fattening. Trade means the cost of each batch, from purchase price to sale. If you earn from both milk and meat, you are in the mixed profile.

If you sit between two profiles, pick the one closest to your main goal. You can move to the next guide as you grow.

Family breeder: about 50 head

You know every animal by sight, but memory fails on vaccination and lambing dates, and you are not sure what each head really costs you. Your roadmap is short:

1. Add each animal with its number and tag colour, plus breed, sex, birth date and mother.
2. Let automatic classification sort unweaned, young stock, mothers and breeding males.
3. Record vaccinations and treatments and turn on reminders. The vaccine programme follows your local vet and the ministry schedule.
4. Enter feed and treatment expenses to see your cost per head.

Full details in the small herd guide.

Commercial farm: about 1000 head

Now three to eight workers help you, the herd is spread across pens and groups, and breeding seasons need planning. Your roadmap:

1. Split the farm into groups that match the pens, and import the herd from Excel.
2. Create one account per employee, set permissions and assign daily tasks.
3. Change the stage of a whole group at once: mating, pregnancy, weaning, drying-off, fattening.
4. Review the daily work sheet and reports every week.

Full details in the 1000-head farm guide.

Large project: about 50,000 head

Several sites, managers, vets and accountants, and a board that wants numbers, not estimates. The work happens on the web platform on laptops; web access is enabled with the subscription by the Throf team. Your roadmap:

1. Import the herd from Excel in batches, one site at a time.
2. Build the team structure: one account per employee, 50+ permissions, and one employee can work on several farms.
3. Follow the daily operations log: every action with its time and the name of the person who recorded it.
4. Use Excel reports and live dashboards for management meetings.

Full details in the large project guide.

Livestock trader: buy, fatten, sell

You buy a batch, fatten it for about 60 to 120 days, then sell at the market, to butchers or before Eid. Your one question: how much did this batch earn? Your roadmap:

1. Add the batch as a group and start each animal's cost from its purchase price.
2. Record feed, treatments and other expenses so they add up to the cost per head.
3. Weigh regularly and follow average daily gain on the feed-conversion dashboard (Gold plan and above).
4. Record each sale per animal, and share the buyer-version PDF when needed.

Full details in the livestock trader guide.

Dairy farm: goats or milking ewes

You earn from milk, so every low producer eats feed without paying it back. Your roadmap:

1. Record milk per animal for each milking session.
2. Follow the milk dashboard to see your best and weakest producers.
3. Plan drying-off and the kidding cycle so no female stays dry for too long.
4. Record udder checks and treatments, involve your vet, then cull low producers based on the numbers.

Full details in the dairy farm guide.

Mixed farm: milk and meat

Some females are milked, the rest raise lambs and kids for fattening, and males are sold. The problem is that the numbers get mixed and you cannot tell which line makes money. Your roadmap:

1. Split the herd into groups by purpose: milking, breeding mothers, fattening, breeding males.
2. Record milk for the milking group and weights for the fattening group.
3. Link expenses and sales to each group.
4. Export the finance report per group to see the profit of each line.

Full details in the mixed farm guide.

Common first week for everyone

Whatever your profile, the first week looks about the same:

1. Download the app from the App Store or Google Play, or open app.throf.com on a laptop.
2. Add or import your animals: one by one on the phone for a small herd, or from an Excel file for large numbers. Number plus tag colour is the animal's identity.
3. Create groups that match your pens and place the animals in them.
4. Enter the first health records: last vaccination, ongoing treatments, any animal in isolation, then turn on reminders.
5. Invite your team if you have workers or a supervisor, and give each person only the permissions they need.

After one week of steady recording, you will have a clear picture of your herd. For the first steps in detail, read getting started with Throf.