Poultry, layers and broilers

What the app keeps for your poultry

You do not need to register every hen. Each house or batch can be a group counted by quantity: you enter how many birds it starts with and then record births, purchases, deaths, sales and culls, and the app keeps the running total. Those birds do not count toward the free plan’s limit of 50 animals. If you want, you can also add birds one by one, with the number the app assigns (for example AVE-01), name, breed, sex and date of birth, and put them in a group, such as your breeding roosters. Each bird registered that way does count toward the limit of 50.

• Today’s eggs in seconds. The quick log takes the eggs collected in a few seconds, for the whole farm or for one flock. In Products you see today’s total and the last 7 days, so you notice straight away if lay drops. Monthly and 3-month totals are on the Pro plan.
• Kilos of chicken. You note the kilos of meat, for the farm or for the batch, and the app adds up the total.
• Accounts per flock. You log feed, chicks, vaccines and every sale of eggs or chicken with a category and a description, and assign it to the whole farm or to the house or batch it belongs to. A sale recorded in a quantity group can carry the amount, and it is booked as that group’s income. Each month you see what came in, what went out and what was left.
• Reminders. Vaccinations, changing the litter, cleaning the drinkers: you create a reminder with its date and a note, and the notification reaches your phone. It can repeat every so many days, weeks or months: when you mark one done, the app sets the next.

Eggs, meat, accounts, assigning them to a flock, up to 2 groups and up to 10 reminders are on the free plan. Monthly totals, the balance per group (each flock’s income, expenses and balance, and its production over the last 30 days), unlimited reminders, full health records (with product, batch, dose and meat withdrawal days) and PDF and CSV export are part of the Pro plan.

Layers: the numbers that matter

A commercial layer starts laying between 18 and 22 weeks and eats 110 to 120 g of feed a day. A good hen uses 1.5 to 1.8 kg of feed per dozen eggs. After 70 to 80 weeks of age profitability usually falls and it is worth thinking about replacement.

To run your numbers use the laying hen profit calculator or read the guide how many eggs does a hen lay.