How to use My Block Hand

Complete guide to the Animals section in My Block Hand — adding animals one at a time or in bulk, searching for them, the Animal Profile and the Herd Profile, moving stock between paddocks, breeding from mating to weaning, printable pedigrees and animal records, the milestone timeline, treatments and jobs, and hand rearing.

Guide to the Flocks section in My Block Hand — setting up a poultry flock, recording daily eggs, tracking hens roosters and chicks, feed costs and cost per egg, bird sales, incubation and hatching, and processing meat birds.

Guide to the Pets section in My Block Hand — adding cats, dogs and other pets, recording worming, flea and vaccination treatments with next-due dates, tracking heats and litters, and tracking NZ dog registration and expiry.

How to use the Paddocks section in My Block Hand: adding paddocks, seasonal rest targets, the ready/resting/occupied statuses, moving herds and strip grazing.

Guide to the Farm Map in My Block Hand — turning it on, drawing paddock boundaries on satellite imagery, linking them to your paddock records, replacing a boundary, and finding your location in the paddock.

Guide to Production in My Block Hand — making the section appear, recording milk, wool, honey and other production against a herd or animal, meat yields from harvest, and milk and wool withholding.

Step-by-step guide to the Hand rearing section in My Block Hand — turning it on, adding a bottle lamb or a mob of calves, setting your feeding plan by age, logging every feed, and weaning.

Guide to Jobs and Reminders in My Block Hand — the difference between them, attaching jobs to animals herds and paddocks, treatment jobs and withholding periods, repeats, and getting notifications.

Guide to the farm calendar in My Block Hand — month and week views, filtering by jobs, reminders, treatments and withholding, adding records straight from a day, and the next 14 days list.

Guide to Finances in My Block Hand — logging expenses and income, allocating costs to a herd, animal, flock or paddock, multi-line invoices, the feed store, and the What's making money report.

Guide to the Equipment register in My Block Hand — recording tractors, quads, chainsaws and pumps, tracking purchase cost and current value, logging services with hours and cost, and next-service due dates.

Guide to the Products and Chemicals register in My Block Hand — recording drenches, vaccines and sprays with their label withholding periods so treatment records fill in meat, milk, egg, wool and grazing dates automatically.

Step-by-step guide to setting up and using the NAIT section in My Block Hand — turning it on, saving your location number, tagging animals, logging movements and exporting your register.

Step-by-step guide to NLIS for Australian small farms and lifestyle blocks — what NLIS is, PICs, eID tags for cattle, sheep and goats, who records a movement, and how to set up and use the NLIS section in My Block Hand.