Livestock digital infrastructure
Studbrand builds the digital infrastructure that helps livestock keepers raise productivity, breed better and run efficient, profitable herds, connecting farms, breed societies and co-operatives around one trusted record for every animal.
Kenya has roughly 71 million ruminants and almost no records. Studbrand builds the infrastructure that connects them.
Ruminant population: 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census and State Department for Livestock Development estimates.
The Provenance Chain
Each step is useful on its own and makes the next one possible. Together they give every animal an unbroken record, from the ear tag to the breed society’s herdbook, that helps the farm breed better and earn more.
Breed societies register and certify. Farms own their records. Studbrand builds and runs the infrastructure that connects them.
Solutions
Registration backlogs, members waiting months for paperwork, and decades of pedigree records in paper files that only one or two people know how to use.
Herdbook and registry systems that the society owns and runs
Calving intervals that drift, repeat breeders, health problems caught late, and no clear answer to which animal to cull and which to breed from.
Identification and herd records that improve productivity and margins
Many small herds, records kept on paper or not at all, and disputes over milk weights and payments that erode members’ trust in the co-operative.
Records for many small herds, through groups farmers already trust
Livestock data projects that end with the funding, systems that staff were never trained to run, and data that is collected but never used to decide anything.
Livestock data systems, analysis and training that people keep using
Software
The farm, the breed society and the co-operative each see what they need from the same identified animal, and each keeps control of its own data.
Herdbook and registry platform for breed societies
Member and animal registration, pedigree, transfers and inspections, run by the breed society on its own data. The society registers and certifies; Studbrand provides the platform.
Herd records and performance for farms
Breeding, production, health and cost per animal on the phone, even offline, so farms breed better and run more efficient, profitable herds.
Milk collection and member records for co-operatives
Milk collection, quality, member statements and payments for dairy co-operatives.
Clients are named with their written agreement.
KLBA
Studbrand is building the multi-tenant registry platform for the Kenya Livestock Breeders Association (KLBA): member and animal registration, pedigree and inspections, with KLBA registering animals and issuing its own certificates.
Studbrand Value
Stock count, classification and an IAS 41-aligned valuation report for a Kenyan university farm’s livestock and other biological assets.
Studbrand ID
Supply of visual identification tags, custom printing and applicators to commercial farms and stud breeders.
Partners
Work with Studbrand on identification, records and registry infrastructure that keeps running after the project ends.
Partner with usTrust
Farms own their records and breed societies own their herdbooks. Studbrand operates the platform, with a published data-export guarantee.
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