Care plans for animal groups
Care plans for animal groups
If you manage animals in a group, you do not have to set up care one animal at a time. A group can carry the same care plans and records as an individual animal, applied to every member at once. This is how a calf crop, a show pen, or a litter stays on one shared schedule. (For groups themselves, see Create and manage animal groups.)
Where group care lives
Open a group and scroll to its Care plans section. It works like the one on an animal profile, with one important difference spelled out at the top: completing a reminder records it on every current member of the group.
A second note sets expectations on visibility: only you and your team can see group care plans and reminders. The records you log from them can be shared on each animal's own profile if you choose, but the planning layer is private to your team.
As on an animal, the library shows curated plans matched to the group's species plus your own plans, each with the same "informational reminders, not veterinary advice" caveat.
Apply a plan to the whole group
Select Add to group on a plan.
The dialog mirrors the single-animal one, with the group implication made explicit:
- Start date: reminders are scheduled from this date for every current member.
- Steps included: check or uncheck each step, the same as for one animal.
- Reminder, days before: per step.
The phrase "every current member" matters: the plan applies to who is in the group now. As your group's membership is the thing that scopes the care, keep the group accurate (see Apply records and track activity for a group for how group membership and records work together).
Group records vs. group care plans
Two related tools, used for different timing:
- A group record logs something that happened to the whole group once (a single vaccination day, a herd weight check). Covered in Apply records and track activity for a group.
- A group care plan schedules recurring care across the group going forward, generating reminders over time.
Use a record for "we did this today," and a care plan for "we will keep doing this on a schedule." Both end up as real records on each member's profile, so an individual animal's history stays complete even when the care was organized at the group level.
Related information
Updated on: 23/06/2026
Thank you!