Pen Rider: Every Animal Action, Tracked in Real Time

No More Whiteboards: Real-Time Animal Health Records with Pen Rider

Ask any feedlot manager where an animal's treatment history actually lives, and the honest answer is usually "it depends." Some of it's on a whiteboard in the office. Some of it's in a notebook riding around in a truck. And a good chunk of it exists only in the pen rider's memory — reliable, until it isn't.

That gap is where things go wrong: a treatment gets missed, a withdrawal date slips through the cracks, or an animal ships before it's actually cleared. Not because anyone's careless — because the system itself is scattered.

Cattler's new Pen Rider module was built to close that gap. It turns every animal into a live, chute-side health record, so nothing gets lost between the treatment sheet and the scale.

Everything you need, on one screen

Instead of piecing information together from a whiteboard, a notebook, and someone's memory, Pen Rider puts the full picture of an animal's health in a single view:

• Protocols & Diagnosis — see at a glance whether an animal is sick, under treatment, or cleared.
• Automatic Withdrawal Tracking — withdrawal dates and days-to-ship are calculated automatically, so no animal ships before it's cleared.
• Full Treatment History — every protocol, product, dose, and user name logged and timestamped.
• Weight & Daily Gain — tracked right alongside health data, instead of living in a separate system.

Everything a pen rider, vet, or feedlot manager needs is attached to the animal itself — not scattered across three different places.

Every action, one tap away

The Pen Rider module isn't just a record — it's built for the moment you're actually working the pens, whether you're logging what you see on a routine ride or acting on something the second it comes up.

• Apply Treatment — pull protocols or individual products straight from your health stock.
• Health Check — log a new diagnosis, observation, or temperature.
• Send to Hospital / Mark as Recovered — manage hospital pen workflows without a whiteboard.
• Transfer / Close Out — register pen moves and final sales in seconds.
• Mark as Dead — record cause of death for accurate loss tracking.

Each of these takes one tap, from a phone or tablet at the chute — so the record updates in real time instead of getting reconstructed from memory days later.

Full accountability, always

Every action inside Pen Rider is logged with who did it and when. Need to hand over records to an auditor, or just double-check what happened with a specific animal? The complete history downloads as a CSV, giving your operation a clear, defensible trail for every animal that moves through the feedlot.

The bottom line

No more relying on memory, paper tags, or a whiteboard in the office. Just an accurate, real-time health record for every animal in your operation — accessible from any iOS or Android device.

Want to see how it works on your own herd? Schedule a Demo with our Sales Team