Goat Manager 47.1

A comprehensive, Python-based herd management system designed to replace guesswork with facts.

📖 About

Goat Manager is a local desktop application built to help livestock owners manage their herds with precision and care. It provides a "digital dossier" for every animal, tracking lineage, health events, weight trends, and breeding status.

The goal of this project is to create a calm, knowledgeable partner for the barn—one that ensures complete and accurate data is always at your fingertips.

✨ Key Features

📊 Interactive Dashboard

• Alert System: Automatically flags overdue health tasks and breeding checks.
• Status Tracking: Visual indicators for animals that need attention "Today" or are "Overdue."
• Quick Navigation: Jump straight from an alert to the specific record.

🐐 Herd Management

• Digital Dossiers: Detailed profiles for every goat including ID tags, breed, sex, DOB, and source.
• Lineage Tracking: Visual pedigree explorer to trace Sires and Dams.
• Archive & Restore: maintain records for animals that have been sold or passed away, preserving historical data.

🏥 Health & Medical Logging

• Comprehensive Logging: Track vaccinations, deworming, hoof trims, and injuries.
• Batch Entry: Log a single event (like a herd-wide booster) for multiple animals at once.
• Image & Document Support: Upload photos of injuries or scan PDFs of vet reports directly to the event record.
• Treatment Scheduling: Schedule follow-up doses with automatic reminders.

🧬 Breeding Center

• Cycle Tracking: Log pairing dates and automatically calculate expected due dates (145 days).
• Status Updates: Track heat checks, pregnancy scans, and kidding results.
• Kidding Records: Automatically generate new "Kid" profiles upon entering kidding data.

📈 Analytics & Reports

• Visual Trends: View weight gain/loss graphs using Matplotlib to spot health issues early.
• PDF Generation: One-click generation of professional reports:
  • Barn Checklist (Daily to-dos)
  • Herd Roll Call
  • Master Health Log
  • Individual Animal Dossier (with full medical/breeding history)
  • Pedigree Charts

🛠️ Technologies Used

• Language: Python 3.x
• GUI Framework: CustomTkinter (Modern, dark-mode ready interface)
• Database: SQLite3 (Robust local data storage)
• Data Visualization: Matplotlib (Weight trend graphs)
• Reporting: FPDF (PDF report generation)
• Image Handling: Pillow (PIL)

🚀 Installation & Setup

1. Clone the Repository

   git clone [https://github.com/Herdingnomad/GoatManager.git](https://github.com/Herdingnomad/GoatManager.git)
   cd goatmanager

2. Install Dependencies

   pip install customtkinter matplotlib fpdf Pillow

3. Run the Application

   python modern_gui_main.py

4. First Run: The application will automatically generate the local SQLite database (goat_herd.db) and necessary folders (goat_uploads, goat_reports) upon the first launch.

📂 Project Structure

• modern_gui_main.py - The core application logic and UI.
• goat_herd.db - Local SQLite database (auto-generated).
• goat_uploads/ - Stores user-uploaded images and documents.
• goat_reports/ - Output directory for generated PDF reports.

🤝 Contributing

This tool was built to solve real-world problems on the farm. If you have ideas for features that would make stewardship easier, feel free to fork the repo and submit a pull request.

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Built with care in Python.