Works at the chute. With no signal.

Record every head as it comes through, weight and all. It syncs when you get back in range.

The Headgate chute screen on a phone. Hazel, an Angus cross
cow, weighs 1137 lb. Safe-Guard and Vira Shield are tapped,
and under each one the app shows the dose it worked out for
her weight and how long the meat withdrawal runs.

Riders moving a bunch of red cattle across open rangeland, low red
hills behind them.

Running on 8 ranches today.

One of them is ours. Every part of this got built because something on that place kept going wrong and nothing we could buy fixed it.

Load the work list at the house. Work it in the pens.

Pull the set up before you leave and the whole thing travels with you: every animal on the list, every product you plan to give, every label dose. The chute screen keeps working with the phone in airplane mode.

When it finds a signal again the morning's work goes up on its own. Nothing sits waiting for you to remember it that night.

Offline The pick list, the search, and the whole give-and-save loop
Sync Queues on the phone, uploads by itself when the bars come back
Install Add to Home Screen from Safari or Chrome. No store account

The chute screen showing the animal picker: 14 left in the
session, with a scrollable grid of tag numbers and names to
tap as each animal comes up. — Twenty-four head gathered off Home Pasture. Tap the tag in front of you, or type it.

One screen holds the whole animal.

Weight at the top, because that is the number everything else is calculated from. Pair a Tru-Test S3 over Bluetooth and it lands in the box as the animal settles. Type it in instead, or bring it in from a CSV, and the rest of the screen behaves the same way.

Under it, the products this session is giving, one tap each. Tap one and the dose is worked out from this animal's own weight, with the route the label calls for and the day the meat hold clears.

26.2 mL
Oral drench · 2.3 mL/100 lb x 1137 lb · meat withdrawal 8d

The chute screen, in detail

The same chute screen on a laptop: weight 1137 lb with a
Connect scale button, then Safe-Guard at 26.2 mL with an
8 day meat withdrawal and Vira Shield at 5 mL with a
60 day meat withdrawal. — The chute screen fills the window. No sidebar, no menus, nothing to hit by accident with a glove on.

Withdrawals come off the label, not off your memory.

The vaccine and medication library: 124 products, each listed
with its dose per hundredweight, its route, and its withdrawal
period, and each flagged Check the bottle until confirmed. — 124 products come loaded. 29 of them dose off bodyweight.

What the label says

Every product carries its dose per hundredweight, its route, and how long the meat and the milk are held. Give one at the chute and the hold is counted from that animal's weight and today's date. Anything inside a hold shows on the dashboard under Cannot sell with the day it clears.

And what it does not

Every seeded product is flagged Check the bottle until you confirm it against the one in your hand. Concentrations differ between products with nearly the same name, and labels get revised. Headgate will do the arithmetic. It will not tell you it read your bottle.

The rest of it.

Same records, read six different ways.

Chute

Work a whole set with no signal

Herd

Every head, and everything under it

Health

Treatments, labels and withdrawals

Inventory

Bottles, lots and expiry dates

Reports

Calf crop, cost and return

Pastures

Rain, rest and stocking

The price is on the site.

Three plans, billed yearly, with the head counts written down.

Homestead

$144/yr

Up to 50 head. 2 users.

Ranch

$348/yr

Up to 300 head. Unlimited users.

Outfit

$708/yr

Up to 1,500 head. Unlimited users.

What is in each plan

Get it on the iPhone

Headgate installs to the Home Screen straight from Safari, and that is how most people run it: full screen, no browser bars, offline at the chute.

There is a real iOS build as well, and it is honest to say where it stands. It is on TestFlight now. It is not in the App Store yet. Bluetooth scale support needs that build, or Chrome on Android. Write to us if you want to be on the test.