An animal management system with a control device configured to control various farm devices, each of the farm devices individually controllable by the control device according to pre-defined settings, where the control device, responsive to a request from a portable device pertaining to a particular animal, is configured to cause a pre-defined setting of a farm device to temporarily change based on the request from the portable device and therefore cause the farm device to operate according to the temporary setting, and subsequently, after an elapse of time or occurrence of an event related to the farm device, revert the setting back to an original setting and cause the farm device to again operate according to the original setting.
