📋 Before you start
The calendar doesn't have its own records.
This is the thing to understand first: you don't put things in the calendar. It's a view of everything dated that already exists elsewhere in the app — jobs, reminders, treatments and withholding periods, all gathered onto one grid.
Which means the calendar is only as full as the rest of your record keeping. If it looks empty, that's not the calendar's fault.
💡 Why a farm calendar and not your phone's
A phone calendar knows about appointments. This one knows that the ewes were drenched on the 4th, that their meat withholding runs to the 25th, and that the paddock they're in shouldn't be grazed until then. Those aren't events you'd ever type in by hand — they're consequences of things you already recorded.
1️⃣ Moving around
Month, week, and back to today.
The controls sit above the grid: ‹ and › step back and forward, Today jumps you home, and Month / Week switch the view.
- Month — the planning view. Good for seeing a lambing spread, or how a withholding period runs across the weeks.
- Week — the working view. Better on a phone and better when the month is busy.
Under the grid, This month summarises what's in view, and Next 14 days lists what's coming regardless of which month you're looking at. That fortnight list is the one most people actually use.
2️⃣ Filtering
Four filters, for when the month is full.
Tabs let you narrow to All, Jobs, Reminders, Treatments or Withholding.
Withholding is the filter worth knowing about. Switch to it and you see only the periods currently running — which animals or paddocks are inside a stand-down and when each one clears. That's a question that's otherwise scattered across individual records, and it's the one you need answered before you sell, kill or milk anything.
3️⃣ Adding from a day
Tap an empty day to create something dated.
Tapping empty space on a day opens a quick-add for that date: + Job, + Reminder, + Treatment, + Movement or + Eggs. The date is filled in for you.
This is the easiest way to catch up on a few days of records — pick the day it happened rather than creating a record and correcting the date afterwards.
Tapping an existing item opens it, so the calendar works as a way in to your records as well as a view of them.
4️⃣ What fills it up
Where the entries come from.
- Jobs and reminders you've created — see the Jobs & Reminders guide.
- Treatments, with their repeat dates.
- Withholding periods, calculated from those treatments.
- Breeding milestones from the Animals timeline.
- Candling and hatch days from incubation batches.
- Drench follow-ups, about twelve days after a drench.
- Pet treatments and registration expiry.
Most of those appear without you doing anything beyond the original record, which is the point.
✅ What the app does vs what you do
The honest split.
My Block Hand handles: collecting everything dated onto one calendar; month and week views; filtering to jobs, reminders, treatments or withholding; a next-14-days list; quick-add against a chosen date; and generating dated items automatically from breeding, incubation, drenching and pet care.
You still have to: record the underlying things — the calendar reflects, it doesn't invent; and actually do the work, which no calendar has ever solved.
This guide describes My Block Hand as at July 2026. Withholding dates shown are calculated from what you entered — always check your own product labels.