livestock-rs

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

Features

• 🌱 Support for over 500+ livestock breeds, categorized by species.
• 🐄 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 donkey breeds like Miniature and Standard.
• 🦌 Includes common reindeer breeds like Even and Nentsi.
• 🛠️ 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 = "0.1.0"

or

cargo add livestock-rs

Usage Example

use livestock_rs::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.

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.

Roadmap

• 🗂️ Expand support for other livestock species (e.g., chickens, ducks, pigs).
• 🌍 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.