Maybe devs could do something like if you shift + right click a cow, then the game selects all the cows for you, show their name above their gob, and add them to the table.
About the detail table :
Instead of having a sheet with animal detail (picture, name, quality, "with kid", etc.), have a table, so that you can compare all the selected animals, be able to unselect them from the table, maybe sort on attributes too, and rename animals directly in the table.
Also when you select an animal in the table, have him being selected too on screen (maybe name in a different color or something like that)
Overall it would just be great to give tools to the animal caretakers, I have only a few dozen animals and am already lost
