livestock-rs

A comprehensive library and CLI tool for managing, identifying, and working with livestock breeds, growth rates, and health. Designed to support farming and ranching applications, breed registries, and livestock data processing.

Features

• 🌱 Support for over 1,000+ livestock breeds, categorized by species.
• 📊 Provides calculators for growth metrics like Average Daily Gain (ADG) and Feed Conversion Ration (FCR).
• 🐄 Includes common cattle breeds like Angus and Brahman.
• 🐐 Includes common goat breeds like Alpine and Boer.
• 🐑 Includes common sheep breeds like Dorper and St. Croix.
• 🐖 Includes common swine breeds like Duroc and Hampshire.
• 🫏 Includes common donkey breeds like Miniature and Standard.
• 🦌 Includes common reindeer breeds like Even and Nentsi.
• 🐪 Includes common camel breeds like Afar Dromedary and Somali Dromedary.
• 🐓 Includes common chicken breeds like Orpington and Rhode Island Red.
• 🐎 Includes common horse breeds like Quarter, Racking, and Appaloosa horses.
• 🛠️ Utilities for converting between enum variants and human-readable strings.
• 🔒 Serde support for serialization and deserialization.

Getting Started

Add the crate to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
livestock_rs = "0.12.0"

or

cargo add livestock-rs

ADG Usage Example

use livestock_rs::calculators::growth::adg::calculate_adg;
let adg = calculate_adg(100.0, 150.0, 50);

For CLI, use

stocktools adg -i 100 -f 150 -d 50

FCR & Feed Efficiency Rating Usage Example

use livestock_rs::calculators::feed::fcr::calculate_fcr;
use livestock_rs::calculators::feed::efficiency::{calculate_feed_efficiency, FeedEfficiency, FeedEfficiencyRating};
use livestock_rs::types::LivestockType;

let fcr = calculate_fcr(100.0, 30.0); // FCR = 3.33
let feed_efficiency = calculate_feed_efficiency(fcr, LivestockType::Swine)?; // Swine should be from 3.0 - 3.9

// feed_efficiency.rating = FeedEfficiencyRating::Average
// feed_efficiency.fcr = 3.33
// feed_efficiency.min_fcr = 3.0
// feed_efficiency.max_fcr = 3.9

For CLI, use

stocktools fcr -i 100 -g 300

Breed Usage Example

use livestock_rs::breeds::GoatBreed;

let breed = GoatBreed::Caninde;
println!("{:?}", breed); // prints "Canindé"

Cattle Breeds

• Covers all major cattle breeds like Angus, Brahman, Jersey, and more.
• Regional specialties, including Texas Longhorn, Deoni, and more.

Goat Breeds

• Covers all major goat breeds like Boer, Alpine, Nigerian Dwarf, and more.
• Regional specialties, including Kalahari Red, Damascus, and Golden Guernsey.

Sheep Breeds

• Features a wide variety of sheep breeds including popular types like Dorper, Romney, and Merino.
• Regional and specialty breeds such as the Icelandic, Navajo Churro, and Valais Blacknose.

Swine Breeds

• Features a wide variey of swine breeds including popular types like Duroc, KuneKune, Hampshire, and more.
• Regional specialties, including Oxford Sandy & Black, Ba Xuyen, and Arapawa Island.

Donkey Breeds

• Features common donkey breeds including Standard, Large Standard, Miniature, Mary, Mammoth Jack Stock, and more.

Reindeer Breeds

• Features common reindeer breeds including Chukotka, Even, Evenk, and Nentsi.

Camel Breeds

• Features common varieties of camel breeds like Afar Dromedary and Somali Dromedary.
• Regional specialties, including Kalmyk Bactrian and more.

Chicken Breeds

• Features a wide variety of chicken breeds including popular types like Rhode Island Red, Orpington, and Leghorn.
• Regional specialties, including AC, Turken (Naked Neck), Yokohama, and more.

Horse Breeds

• Features common varieties like Quarter, Racking, and Appaloosa horses.
• Regional specialties, including Schwarzwälder Fuchs, Akhal-Teke, and more.

Roadmap

• 🗂️ Expand support for other livestock species (e.g., chickens, ducks, geese).
• 🌍 Localization support for breed names in multiple languages.
• 📊 Add more utilities for livestock data management.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! If you’d like to add more breeds or improve the library, please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch for your feature: git checkout -b feature-name.
3. Commit your changes: git commit -m "Add feature-name".
4. Push your branch and create a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

About Us

This crate is maintained by Rowan Ranch Pasture & Pen, LLC, a small-scale regenerative family farm focusing on expanding agricultural technology solutions. We strive to build software that empowers farmers, researchers, and agricultural businesses.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to the global farming community for inspiration.
• Inspired by real-world agricultural needs and breed registries.