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The national herd, live

Every animal. Every bloodline.
One national registry.

Ihembe gives Uganda a single source of truth for its herd — lifetime identities, DNA-verified pedigrees and honest breeding values, from the ministry dashboard down to a scan in the boma. Built to work offline, owned by the nation.

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ANKOLE
Kyamate Semakula 22-104
UG-0001-2345-6
Registered · Section A DNA-verified
Sire
Entebbe Mugabe 18-011
Dam
Kyamate Nkunda 17-062
Pedigree
Semakula 22-104 ♀ 2022 Mugabe 18-011 Sire · DNA ✓ Nkunda 17-062 Dam · declared Rwabu 14-002 Kirabo 15-118 Bwana 12-044 Amara 13-090
Breeding values
Run 2026-2 · base 2020
Weaning wt (direct)+6.2 kgacc 0.71
Milk (maternal)+3.8 kgacc 0.58
Calving interval−9 daysacc 0.49
vs Ankole breed average · 84 contemporaries
Field sync 31 events queued
Agent M. Tumusiime captured 31 events offline in Ntungamo — syncing on next signal.
QR-verified certificate
Scan to confirm authenticity
Works offline for weeks
Queued events sync when signal returns
14.5M
cattle in Uganda's national herd
800
ISO 11784 country code, built in
ICAR
ADE-aligned data standard
$1/animal/yr
simple national pricing
The platform

Built for the way a national herd actually works

One registry underneath, four experiences on top — for the ministry, the breed society, the vet in the field and the breeder at home.

Interactive family trees
Tap any ancestor to re-root the tree. Line style tells the truth: solid means DNA-verified parentage, dotted means declared. ET-born animals show their genetic parents, recipients and foster dams — never confused.
Breeding values you can defend
Every EBV ships with its accuracy, its contemporary group size and its evaluation run — never a bare number. Genetic trends per herd and per breed show whether the national programme is actually working.
Weaning direct
+6.20.71
Milk maternal
+3.80.58
Offline-first field capture
Vets and AI technicians scan, record births, weights and inseminations with no signal at all — for weeks if needed. Farmers only need a feature phone: registrations and confirmations arrive by SMS, in their language.
Offline · 31 queued Synced · conflicts resolved SMS → ENTE 0941
Registry-grade integrity
Every submission is pre-validated — duplicate detection, birth-window checks, grading-up rules — before a registrar ever sees it. Every decision is an append-only, audited event. Certificates carry QR codes anyone can verify.
No duplicate identity foundchecked 14.2M records
Birth within gestation window of AI record
DNA sample pending — provisional entry
National to individual

The whole country,
down to one animal

Ihembe is built as a true hierarchy: country, region, district, herd, animal — with breed as a lens across all of it. Roll-ups at every level are live, not spreadsheets: herd sizes, birth rates, genetic trends, tag coverage. Drill from the minister's dashboard to a single cow in four taps.

Slice by geography — country → region → district → sub-county → herd
Slice by breed — composition-aware, so crossbreds count honestly
Slice by ownership — breeder, cooperative, government stud, ranch scheme
National herd explorer
By district By breed By herd
Uganda›Western Region›Ntungamo District›Kyamate Stud
UG
Uganda — national herd
135 districts · 42 breeds tracked
14,512,480
animals · 9.1% registered
Ntungamo District
2,140 herds · Ankole 71% · births ↑ 4% this season
312,058
animals · 22% registered
Kyamate Stud — B. Rukundo
Herdbook Section A · genetic trend +0.8 kg/yr weaning
241
animals · 100% registered
Kyamate Semakula 22-104
Ankole ♀ · DNA-verified · pregnant, due Mar 2027
UG-0001-2345-6
Access & roles

Everyone sees exactly what they should

One registry, many audiences. Permissions follow the hierarchy — a district officer sees their district, a society sees its breed, a breeder sees their herd. Every read and write is scoped, logged and auditable.

Ministry & NAGRC&DB
NATIONAL SCOPE
National dashboards, district roll-ups, breed statistics, tag coverage, export-readiness reports. Sets policy: breed standards, grading-up rules, fees.
Breed society registrar
BREED SCOPE
Runs the herdbook for their breed: approves registrations from a pre-validated queue, manages sections and inspections, issues certificates. Sees every animal of their breed, no one else's.
District vet officer
DISTRICT SCOPE
Sees every herd in their district: movements in and out, disease events, tagging campaigns, agent activity. Approves holding registrations and movement permits.
Vet / field agent
ASSIGNED HERDS
Captures on the move, offline: births, tags, weights, AI, ET, pregnancy checks, treatments. Sees only herds assigned to them — and everything they submit carries their signature.
Breeder
OWN HERD
Full view of their own animals: pedigrees, EBVs, progeny reports, certificates, mating suggestions. Public pedigree data of other herds is browsable; private performance data is not.
Farmer · SMS & USSD
FEATURE PHONE
No smartphone needed. Dial the ENTE shortcode to confirm a birth, report a movement or check a registration — and get an SMS receipt for every event that touches their animals.
Ihembe, in the boma

Built for where the animals actually are

Signal dies at the herd gate. Ihembe doesn't. The agent app stores weeks of work locally, resolves conflicts on sync, and pre-fills the paperwork — the birth form already knows which bull served the dam and whether the dates are plausible.

Scan-first: EID tag → full animal context in one tap
Gestation plausibility checks at capture time, not at audit time
Every farmer gets an SMS receipt — trust is built per event
ihembe
Offline
Mwiriwe, Moses
6 visits today · Ntungamo route
31 events queuedwill sync
12 births · 16 weights · 3 AI records
NEXT VISIT
Kyamate Stud · 241 animals
4 pregnancy checks due · 2 tags to fit
Scan tag
New birth
Start visit
The journey

Four steps from tag to genetic gain

Ihembe starts delivering value on day one of tagging — and each layer makes the next one possible.

01
Register
Every animal gets a lifetime UG- identity and a cheap visual + EID tag. Tags are replaceable; the identity never is.
02
Record
Births, parentage, weights, milk, AI and embryo transfer — captured in the field, append-only, with full provenance.
03
Prove
DNA parentage verification, herdbook sections and grading-up, QR-verified certificates that buyers can trust.
04
Improve
Once recorded data supports it: honest EBVs with accuracies, genetic trends by herd, district and breed — and better matings.
Bring the national herd online.
No pitch deck marathon. A working platform, a pilot herd, and a conversation with the people who built it.
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