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# Check occupancy, pasture rest, and property activity

In **Locations**, the **Status** tab shows how many animals are in each place and how long each pasture has been occupied or rested. To log rain, mowing or barn cleaning, use the **Activity** tab.

The **Moves** tab helps with planning: it lists the moves you've planned and charts your moves. Below the tabs, four numbers sum up the workspace: **Active locations**, **Animals on property**, **Open gate sessions** and **Flags to review**. A gate session is a time when you've opened the gates between places so animals can roam between them.

## See occupancy and pasture rest

Open the **Status** tab. Each place gets a card that shows:

- **here now**: how many animals are there. A bigger place shows the total across the places inside it.
- **Occupied**: how many days animals have been there.
- **Rested**: how many days the place has stood empty since the last animal left.
- **Capacity**: the limit you set, or **Not set**.
- **Last activity**: the date of the latest move, care or logged work there.

![Status cards for North Pasture with three animals and South Pasture resting for 44 days](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/338/bef/dad/7ad39.png?width=1198)

Use **Rested** to plan your grazing rotation. Here, South Pasture has rested for 44 days, while North Pasture has been grazed for 179 days.

A card can also show a flag. **Over capacity** means more animals than the capacity you set. **Gates open** means animals can move between this place and another one. The buttons match the **Places** list: **Add animals here** and **Move**, or **Place animals**, plus **Add care** or **View care**, and **Manage**. Select a place's name to open its own page, with who's there, today's care and its history.

## Check who's really there

Open the place's page and select **Check who's here**. On a rack or row, it reads **Check whole rack** or **Check whole row** and covers every unit inside.

1. Tick each animal you can see, or select **All here**. For a count group, enter how many you counted.
2. Found an animal that isn't listed? Select **Someone else is here** to record its move in.
3. Select **Save check**.

Anyone left unticked is marked not found, and nothing moves. The place's page then shows how many weren't found at the last check, each with a link to record where it is now. **Last checked** on that page shows when the place was last checked, and each check is saved to the **Activity** tab and the place's **History**.

## Close open gates

If you've opened gates between places, they're listed under **Open gates** at the bottom of the **Status** tab. Select **Close gates** to end one, then choose the place where the animals stay.

## See moves over time

The **Moves** tab starts with **Upcoming moves**, the moves you've planned, soonest first. Select **Cancel** on one to call it off. Below that, **Planned vs completed moves** gives each day with a move a bar and a count, such as **Completed · 1**, for the last 30 days. Moves you've planned for later show too. Select **Print wall chart** to print a copy for the barn. To record or plan a move, see [Move animals and review location history](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/move-animals-and-review-location-history-jevbid/).

## Log property work

The **Activity** tab is your property log. Care finished at your places shows up on its own, as one entry per day with the number of items and who did them. Select **Show care items** to see each task. Photos added with **Add photos here** on Today land here too.

![Property activity log with care, cleaning, rainfall and mowing entries](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/99a/765/771/8957d.png?width=1600)

To log something yourself:

1. Select **Add activity**.
2. Choose the **Location**.
3. Choose the **Activity**: Rainfall, Fertilizer, Mowing, Cleaning, Enrichment, Water quality, Feeding or Water change.
4. Check **When**. It starts at the current time, so change it if the work happened earlier.
5. Add an **Amount** and **Unit** if it helps, such as 0.6 inches of rain.
6. Under **Notes**, write what the next person should know.
7. Select **Add activity**.

Owners, co-owners and team members can all add to the log. To fix an entry, select **Edit**. In that panel, **Remove activity** takes it off the log, and Creatures keeps a record that it was removed.

## Get notified when animals move

Select the bell on a place's row in **Places**, or on its card in **Status**. Then choose a level:

- **Off**: no notifications for this place.
- **Moves** or **All activity**: Creatures sends you a notification when someone else records a move into or out of the place.

![Notification choices Off, Moves and All activity for West Pasture](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/016/5e8/c74/87ad9.png?width=1066)

A dot on the bell shows that notifications are on for that place. They arrive under the bell at the top of Creatures.

### Related information

- [Set up and organize locations](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/set-up-and-organize-locations-1f4oo3o/)
- [Move animals and review location history](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/move-animals-and-review-location-history-jevbid/)
- [QR location signs and place chores on Today](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/qr-location-signs-and-place-chores-on-today-otbo3v/)