Software for hog operations.
Mule builds sow and group-level record systems for hog operations: breeding and farrowing records at the individual level, pen and barn records at the group level, and field apps built for the barn. We also build the dashboards that roll it all up without a spreadsheet rebuilt every cycle.
What we know about hog operations.
Most commercial hog barns run on group records, feed, health and mortality tracked by pen or by room rather than by individual animal, with the sow herd the one place records stay individual: breeding dates, farrowing history, parity. That sow-level record is often still a card system or a spreadsheet one person keeps current, and if that person is out, the record stops moving until they're back.
Day to day, treatment and mortality records at the barn get logged on a whiteboard in the barn office and re-typed later, if there's time, which means the group-level numbers that actually drive decisions are often a few days behind what's true in the barn. Illinois and Indiana raise a lot of hogs, and this same gap shows up across operations of every size in that world.
Why a hog operation picks Mule.
- 01Sow-level breeding and farrowing records kept current from wherever you are, not locked to one card system and one person.
- 02Group and pen-level records for feed, health and mortality that match what's actually happening in the barn, not a weekly re-entry.
- 03Field apps built for barn workers to log treatments and deaths at the pen, working offline and syncing when signal returns.
- 04Dashboards that roll group performance up automatically, so you're not rebuilding the same spreadsheet every cycle.
What hog operations usually need.
From hog operations.
Do barn workers need signal to log a treatment or a death?
No. The field app runs offline in the barn, entries save to the device and sync automatically once it's back in range of a signal.
Can the system work with our sow tags or ID tags?
Yes. We can connect to readers that expose their data over Bluetooth, serial or file export, and animal RFID tags generally follow the ISO 11784/11785 standards, so we build to whatever tag and reader setup your operation already uses.
Our sow records are in an old spreadsheet nobody else really understands. Can you fix that?
Yes. We bring your existing sow and breeding records into the new system as part of the build, mapped so the structure makes sense to more than one person.
Who owns the sow and group records once this is built?
You do. It's your barn's data, and we build the system around your operation. You keep the sow records, the group performance history, all of it.
How do you price a build like this?
From your operation: barn count, whether it's farrow-to-finish or feeder pigs, what's already tracked digitally versus on paper. There's no published price list; you describe it and get a real quote.