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Sheep farming app tutorials

Short video tutorials and written guides for the EkBoer sheep farming app: vaccine and treatment reminders, lambing and breeding records, stud pedigrees, spreadsheet import and more.

EkBoer is an app for farmers in South Africa and anywhere else. It tells you every day which vaccines, treatments and farm jobs are due, and for which animals, from rules you control. Each tutorial below has a short video, the chapters, and the full written script, so you can watch or read.

Getting started

What the App Does: Sheep Vaccine and Treatment Reminders

Learn how the EkBoer app works out which vaccines, treatments and farm jobs are due on your sheep farm, and for which animals. This first…

Sheep Vaccination Programme: Read This Before You Start

The standard programme that comes with the EkBoer app is the developer's own flock programme. It is an example to start from, not advice…

Sheep Farm App Quick Start: Set Up in 6 Steps

A quick start for the EkBoer app. In six steps you set your lambing date, tidy your rules, add your own vaccines, add your animals, check…

Rules, timing and your own vaccines

How to Change Lambing Date and Timing in the Sheep App

Learn how to change the key dates and numbers in the EkBoer app: when lambing starts, the weaning age, how long the ram stays in…

How to Switch Off a Sheep Vaccine Reminder for Ewes, Rams or Lambs

Not every rule applies to every animal. This video shows how to switch a rule off for ewes, rams or lambs in the EkBoer app, without…

How to Edit a Sheep Treatment or Vaccine Rule in the App

Step by step: how to edit a rule in the EkBoer app. Change what Today says, when the task is due, who it applies to, and write the label…

How to Add Your Own Sheep Vaccine or Treatment Reminder

How to add your own vaccine or treatment to the EkBoer app, step by step: choose the kind, name it, choose who gets it, set the timing and…

Sheep Vaccine Rule Examples: Footrot, Pulpy Kidney, Drench

Four worked examples of rules you can add in the EkBoer app: a yearly footrot vaccine with a booster, a pulpy kidney course for new sheep…

How to Delete Rules or Start From Scratch in the Sheep App

How to delete one rule, remove all rules and start from scratch, or go back to the standard programme in the EkBoer app. Your animals and…

Make a Dewormer Wait for a Vaccine: Sheep App Advanced Tip

An advanced tip for the EkBoer app: make a treatment reminder wait until an animal has had a certain vaccine, the way the standard…

Sheep App Rule Types Explained in Plain Words

The EkBoer app has eight rule types, from Record only to Every year to Days after birth. This video explains each one in plain words, with…

Every day: logging jobs, mistakes and safety

How to Log a Treatment or Job You Did in the Sheep App

How to log something that is not on the list in the EkBoer app: one-off jobs, record-only treatments, and anything you did before you…

Sheep App Troubleshooting: Overdue Tasks, Missing Tasks, Undo

Common questions answered for the EkBoer app: new animals showing overdue tasks, a task that is not showing, undoing a mistake, sold or…

Sheep Farm App Safety: Check Doses and Withdrawal Periods

An important safety reminder for the EkBoer app. The app only follows the rules you give it. Always check doses, timing and withdrawal…

Breeding, stud records and spreadsheets

Sheep Breeding Records: Joining, Scanning, Lambing, Weights

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