Buy 100 calves
Create a grouped-livestock record with head count, average weight, purchase cost, current pasture and intended use.
GroupSpring Rope / Feedout Calves100 head · 410 lb avg · East Grow Pasture
Product walkthrough
See RanchBooks follow a group from purchase to sale.
This guided example shows the kind of operating history RanchBooks keeps without forcing every livestock change into an accounting transaction.
Use and weigh them
Record operational activity such as roping use and weight checks. A weight check can update current average weight and estimated value while preserving the older valuation in history.
Weight Check525 lb avgEstimated value $132,562.50
Move only part of the group
Send 35 head to a different pasture without pretending the cattle were sold. RanchBooks creates the linked inventory history and leaves 65 head in the original group.
65 headEast Grow Pasture
→35 headNorth Trap
Record real animal expenses
Add feed, hay, veterinary, medicine, freight, grazing, roping and other livestock-related expenses directly from the group page.
Feed expense$1,480.00Linked to Spring Rope / Feedout Calves
Cull or transfer without fake income
Deaths, shrink, culls and transfers reduce inventory and preserve the reason in history. Sales remain a separate workflow for when actual income occurs.
Sell and review the numbers
When the cattle are actually sold, RanchBooks records the sale and accounting income so operational inventory history and the books finally meet at the right event.
OutcomeOperational history + accounting historyOne record trail from purchase through disposition
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