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Livestock record keeping by text

Your note pauses for review before it becomes a record

Send a plain-language livestock note from your registered phone. Ranch.Bot proposes a structured record, and you decide whether to confirm it, correct it, or cancel it.

Nothing saves until you confirm the proposal.

Example

Message to Ranch.Bot · SMS

  • Moved the ewe lambs from South pasture to North 40 on Aug 23.

Confirm Action
Please review and confirm this action before it is executed.
  • Create record: Ewe lambs: South pasture to North 40, Movement, 2026-08-23
ConfirmCancel

One movement note, corrected before save

The walkthrough uses synthetic movement data. Its steps and fields follow the current SMS, web confirmation, Records, lookup, and export behavior.

Current Ranch.Bot conversation screen showing a synthetic movement note, Confirm Action card, Confirm button, and Cancel button
Current product screen, rendered with synthetic movement data. The conversation layout, proposal summary, and review controls come from the current build.

A correction before anything saves

  1. 01Plain-language note
    Message to Ranch.Bot · SMS

    • Moved the ewe lambs from South pasture to North 40 on Aug 23.

  2. 02First proposal

    The confirmation card shows: “Create record: Ewe lambs: South pasture to North 40, Movement, 2026-08-23.”

  3. 03Cancel and correct

    Select Cancel. No record is written. Then send:

    Message to Ranch.Bot · SMS

    • Correction: destination was West pasture, not North 40.

  4. 04Review and confirm

    The replacement card shows: “Create record: Ewe lambs: South pasture to West pasture, Movement, 2026-08-23.” Select Confirm.

  5. 05Saved record

    The movement appears in Records with the name “Ewe lambs: South pasture to West pasture,” type MOVEMENT, and applied date Aug 23, 2026.

Look it up

Message to Ranch.Bot · Web chat

  • Show movement records for the ewe lambs in August.

Ewe lambs: South pasture to West pasture · MOVEMENT · Aug 23, 2026

Export it

Tools → Export downloads JSON or a simplified CSV.

ID,Name,Type,Applied At 9b7c2f36-4e8a-4dd2-91d4-6c87222a5f10,Ewe lambs: South pasture to West pasture,MOVEMENT,2026-08-23T00:00:00.000Z

The current export is capped at 10,000 active entries per collection. Record entries do not include animal or group links.

Current Text-in boundaries

The capture path is simple, but it still depends on the phone, connection, and review surface below.

Setup
Sign in on the web, create the farm, and enable Text-in from Settings → Account. Only the registered, opted-in phone can send notes to that farm.
Connection
Text-in needs cellular SMS service. Setup and dashboard review need a data connection.
Supported input
Send plain text from the registered, opted-in phone. Texted photos are stored, but are not shown in the conversation or extracted into records.
Retries and delay
The note is captured before processing, so the reply may arrive later. A carrier retry with the same message ID does not create another conversation turn.
Processing error
If processing fails, Ranch.Bot texts an error and asks you to try again or use the app. Nothing saves without confirmation.

Read the setup guide and export boundaries.

The 200-ewe field protocol pre-registers how this workflow will be measured on real farm events.

See the same loop with your records

A scheduled walkthrough covers setup, the SMS reply, review, correction, and save.

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