Best Sheep Farm Management App in Saudi Arabia: 2026 Checklist

The best sheep farm management app in Saudi Arabia is the one that gives you Arabic screens in breeder language, one file per head (number plus tag colour), vaccination and lambing alerts, cost per head and net profit, RFID and smart-scale support, worker permissions, Excel import and a free plan to test it. Judge it on your own flock, not on a demo.

There are plenty of apps that say they "manage your herd". But a breeder in the pen does not need a long feature list. He needs to know three things: will my workers actually use it, will it remind me before a vaccination is due, and will it tell me what each animal earned me? This buyer's checklist helps you decide for yourself, and then shows how Throf answers each point.

Why use software at all?

A notebook works when you have twenty ewes and know each one by face. Once the flock grows and workers or partners get involved, the same problems appear on almost every farm:

• A vaccination is missed because the paper got lost or the worker changed.
• A ewe stays open for two cycles and nobody notices.
• A lamb is sold for less than the barley and alfalfa it ate.
• Two numbers for the same animal, or an animal with no birth date and no known dam.

Good software does not fix these by itself, but it makes recording easier than forgetting. If you run your flock in spreadsheets today, read Excel vs a livestock app first.

The 12-point checklist

Three questions many farms skip:

1. Who will enter the data? If it is the worker, the app must be simple on a phone before it is rich in reports.
2. Does it fit your farm type? A fattening unit needs weights and cost; a breeding flock needs stages and pedigree. If you keep goats too, check that both are covered.
3. Is your data yours? Ask about Excel export before you enter a full year of records.

How Throf answers the checklist

It was built for livestock breeders in Saudi Arabia, covering sheep, goats and camels. Point by point:

• Arabic first: automatic classes by age and sex — unweaned, young stock (tali, rikhla, young bucks and does), adults, mothers and breeding males.
• One file per head: number and tag colour together, plus breed, sex, birth date, weight, photo, dam, sire and group (pen).
• Breeding: mating or insemination, early and late pregnancy, close to birth, single, twin or triplet births, miscarriage, weaning, drying-off and fattening. Change the stage for a whole group at once.
• Health: vaccinations, treatments, illnesses, inspections, a separate isolation status and reminders. The app does not set doses; your vet sets the vaccination programme following the ministry schedule.
• RFID and scale: a Bluetooth RFID reader fills the tag number when you add or search an animal, and a smart scale reads the tag and sends the weight straight into the weight history. See the smart farm system.
• Feed and money: meals, feed stock in kg, water, expenses, sales, cost per head and net profit, and an investors and partners module with ownership shares.
• Team: one account per worker, 50+ fine-grained permissions, tasks and a daily work sheet.
• Reports and web: Excel import, about 20 Excel report types for the farm, a group or selected animals, and a PDF per animal. Large farms work in the full web app at app.throf.com, enabled with the subscription. Advanced reports are in the Gold and Enterprise plans.
• Trial: a free plan for small herds and paid plans by herd size — see pricing.

For the breeder's-eye view of each reason, read why Throf: 12 reasons.

Test it for two weeks before you decide

The fairest test of any app is one real pen:

1. Days 1-2: enter one group (for example the ewes of one pen) with number, colour and age, or import them from Excel.
2. Days 3-5: record breeding status and the last vaccination, and wait for the first reminder.
3. Week 1: ask a worker to log meals and treatments on his phone and watch whether he manages without help.
4. Week 2: enter the week's expenses and one sale, and check whether the cost per head on the dashboard makes sense to you.

If the pilot pen works, move the rest of the flock. If the worker struggles, the app is probably too complicated.

Common mistakes when choosing

• Counting features: a feature nobody uses in the pen is worth nothing.
• Ignoring the worker: the owner chooses, but the worker records every day.
• Loading the whole flock before fixing numbering: sort out numbers and tag colours first, then import.
• Waiting for perfect: start with identity, vaccinations, births and expenses, then add the rest.

For a summary of what sheep farms get, see sheep farm management.