How to manage your poultry vaccination schedule with Kukufarm

A poultry vaccination schedule is the cornerstone of flock health and productivity. Usually, you administer poultry vaccinations and treatments by breed, age, purposes, and region, among other factors.

We have already looked at what a poultry vaccination schedule is, how and why to use one. Basically, it is a timetable by which you should administer flock vaccinations and treatments to ensure flock health and productivity.

In this article, we illustrate how you can manage your poultry vaccination schedule with Kukufarm poultry app. Basically, we view a flock vaccination activity as containing at least these 4 items:

• Name of vaccination
• Time of administration / flock age
• Method of administration
• Name of medication

For this exercise, install Kukufarm if you do not already have it. You can find the app on PlayStore and AppStore.

How to add flock vaccination activities on Kukufarm

Here are the steps to adding a flock vaccination or treatment activity to your flock schedule.

1. From the Flock Records’ viewing screen, tap on Schedule tab, and then tap the Add button.
2. In the New activity screen, select a treatment. Then set respective treatment time, method, and notes .e.g medication name.
3. If the disease or treatment is administered more than once, add respective treatments and fill in respective details as in step 2.
4. Tap the Save button, in the Schedule tab you will see the vaccination or treatment activities you have just added.

For the purpose of this exercise we refer to Kenchic’s vaccination schedule below.

View, edit and delete activities from your poultry vaccination schedule

Once you’ve added flock vaccination or treatment activities, you will be able to view them from the Schedule tab. Moreover, they will be ordered by date / time of administration.

To edit or delete a treatment activity tap on the treatment card to view full treatment information. In the activity schedule viewing screen, you can tap the edit icon to edit the activity’s schedule. Furthermore, you can delete the entire schedule for activity by tapping in the delete icon.

Mark an flock vaccination or treatment activity as done

To mark a schedule activity as done, you simply tap on the radio icon on the respective activity card. In addition to showing that that activity is now done, it will also add a date when you marked the activity as done.

This way, you can keep track of what vaccinations or treatments are done. Moreover, this will become part of your poultry records. When you look back, you will be able to tell what treatment activities you administered to your flock and when.

As far as we are concerned, safeguarding your chicken against bird flu is the best strategy. Treatment if any may not be as effective. There are cases where prevention – in the way of biosecurity – is the most effective strategy.

Poultry vaccination schedule takeaways

As we done already noted above, poultry vaccinations and respective schedules vary by a number of things. For instance, these include poultry breed, age, purpose, region and so on. As a result ALWAYS confirm and verify your flock schedule with your flock supplier and or certified, local poultry vet.

A vaccination schedule is only 1 of 7 items that make up a complete flock schedule. Some of the items others include

• Feeding schedule
• Weight tracking / monitoring schedule
• Egg production cycle
• Beak trimming schedule
• Flock harvesting

We at Kukufarm aim to make poultry management a breeze for both commercial and backyard farmers. As a result, let us know what flock schedules are important for you and what challenges or wishes you may have regarding how we support them in Kukufarm.

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We also recommend updating Kukufarm so you can take advantage of lates features. These include with reminders on missed egg entry logs and monthly subscriptions as an alternative to annual subscriptions. Also see the importance of a flock hatch date in the management of poultry.