Custom veterinary medicine log app
Appfront builds apps for livestock farmers, veterinarians and supply chain organisations that need to record the use of veterinary medicines: every treatment logged in the stable with medicine, batch, dosage, animals or pen and the treating person; the withdrawal period per animal or group monitored before milk or meat enters the supply chain; stock on the farm kept up to date; and the data ready for the vet, the sector database and an inspection. So the logbook is no longer a folder in the office that gets updated at the end of the month.
What is an app for the veterinary medicines logbook?
If you keep food-producing animals, you must record which veterinary medicines are used: which product, when, on which animals, how much, and when the withdrawal period ends. The European veterinary medicines regulation requires this record, and the sectors have added their own requirements, including for antibiotic use. A veterinary medicines logbook app records this at the point of care, in the barn, and monitors what follows from it.
Without such an app, the logbook sits on paper in the office and is updated when there is time. A cow treated on Tuesday appears there on Friday, if someone still remembers. The withdrawal periods are tracked from memory or on a whiteboard, and when the milk collector arrives, someone needs to be certain which animals must not be milked into the tank. At an audit, the logbook is laid alongside the vet's supply records, and every discrepancy has to be explained.
We build custom solutions because the record must fit your farm and your supply chain: which species you keep and whether you treat per animal or per group, which management system or barn recording system you use, how your vet supplies and records, and which sector database and quality system the data must satisfy. A general farm app knows the animals; the withdrawal period per product and the coordination with your vet are often not handled properly.
Recording in the barn
A treatment logged on the phone at the animal or pen: product, batch, dosage, animals treated and the person treating, with the animal scanned or selected from a list.
Withdrawal periods monitored
For each treatment, the milk and meat withdrawal periods are calculated from the product data, shown per animal or group until they expire, with a warning before removal or milking.
Aligned with your vet
The vet's supply records alongside use on the farm, stock per product, and data ready for the sector database and an inspection.
How we build your veterinary medicines logbook app
We start with the logbook as it stands today: where it is kept, who fills it in and when, and how often a discrepancy with the supply records had to be explained at an audit.
Your species and working method, how you record now, which management system you use, how the vet supplies, and which sector database and quality requirements apply.
The animals or groups from your management system, the products with their withdrawal periods, and the stock on the farm.
Logging treatments in the barn, calculating and displaying withdrawal periods, and warnings for milking and removal.
Matching against the vet's supply records, antibiotic use reporting, export to the supply chain, and ongoing management afterwards.
What a veterinary medicines logbook app actually does
The components below come up on nearly every livestock farm. Which ones you need depends on your species and your supply chain.
Treatment recording
For each treatment: the product, batch, dosage, route of administration, animals or pen, date and the person treating, also working offline in the barn.
Withdrawal periods
The milk and meat withdrawal period for each treatment, per animal or group, visible until it expires, with a list of animals that may not currently be sent or milked.
Products and stock
Products on the farm with batch and shelf life, deducted on use, with a signal when expired or running low.
Vet supply records
The vet's supply records imported and matched against use, so that stock and the logbook agree.
Antibiotic reporting
Antibiotic use per period and animal category, in the format the sector database and quality system require.
Audit file
For each period, the logbook, supply records, stock and withdrawal periods brought together, ready for the vet, the auditor or the inspector.
Who we build a veterinary medicines logbook app for
The app is designed for businesses and practices where the medicines log is currently kept up to date afterwards and withdrawal periods are remembered from memory.
Dairy farmers
Treatments per cow and a withdrawal period for milk that counts with every milking. The alert at milking is the core feature.
Pig and poultry farmers
Treatments per pen or group and strict antibiotic reporting. Group registration and reporting matter most.
Veal farmers
Many treatments in the first weeks and dispatch to slaughter. The withdrawal period at dispatch and stock control are what you need.
Veterinary practices for farm animals
Supply to many farms and a role in the farm treatment plan. Alignment with usage per farm is the core.
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This page is about medicine registration in livestock farming. For companion animal practices, see our page on veterinary practice software. For farm administration, see our page on agricultural administration software, and for organic farms, our page on Skal administration. You can read about our approach at getting software built.
Why choose Appfront for your veterinary medicines log app?
A log that is updated afterwards is a reconstruction. We build on something better: registration at the animal, the withdrawal period in view, and a log that matches the deliveries.
Recorded where it happens
The treatment is in the log before the syringe is put away. Nobody has to remember it on Friday.
No milk or meat within the withdrawal period
Anyone milking or dispatching sees which animals are still within their withdrawal period. The warning comes before the mistake.
Ready for the audit
Log, deliveries and stock are linked. The auditor receives a file, not a folder of loose sheets.
Security and privacy for a veterinary medicines log app
The app holds farm details, animal data, treatments and veterinarian information. Access is set up by role: the farmer and staff register, the veterinarian sees the farms they work for, and the sector organisation sees only the data you share. Every registration and change is logged with name and time.
The app runs in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily backups. Records are retained for as long as the medicines log rules require, and a submitted period is locked.
Frequently asked questions about a veterinary medicines log app
Questions farmers and veterinarians ask before getting started.
It records every treatment in the barn with medicine, batch, dosage, animals and the person treating, calculates and monitors the withdrawal period for milk and meat, keeps track of medicine stock, sets usage against the veterinarian's deliveries, and produces reporting for the sector database and audits.
Yes. The European veterinary medicines regulation requires keepers of food-producing animals to record the use of veterinary medicines, and in the Netherlands sector agreements on antibiotic use apply in addition. Exactly which data is needed and in what form depends on your animal species and your supply chain.
Yes. Registrations are stored on the phone and sent as soon as there is a connection. An ear tag or pen number can be scanned or selected from a list.
For each medicine, you record the withdrawal period for milk and meat, as stated on the package insert or in your vet's prescription. For a treatment, the app works out the end date and shows, per animal or group, how much time is still left.
Yes, provided your vet makes deliveries available digitally. Deliveries are matched against usage, so stock levels stay accurate and discrepancies stand out. How this works depends on the practice's system.
Yes, provided that system makes animals or groups available. You then don't need to keep animal records twice, and a treatment can also be sent back to the farm management system.
Check that first. Many farm management systems for dairy cattle and pigs include a logbook module, and that is enough if you use it in the barn. Custom development makes sense if records are currently written up after the fact, if coordination with the vet is done by hand, or if several farms or a chain want the same way of working.
An accurate logbook, without updating it on Friday afternoon?
Tell us which animal species you keep, how you record things now, and which farm management system and veterinary practice you work with. We'll show you what recording in the barn, withdrawal periods and coordination look like.