Poultry bookkeeping app: How to track your farm’s finances

Every poultry farmer should use some poultry bookkeeping app to efficiently log and track their farm’s performance. Finance records are the most important indicator for your poultry business. That is, without them, you will have no idea how your poultry are performing.

In this day and age, we recommend using a poultry management app such as Kukufarm, to manage your poultry farm and keep flock records.

As we have already suggested, apps are more accessible and can be used to collect rich-media data in contrast to desktop or web software. Additionally, apps are naturally more affordable than enterprise software.

For your interest we have listed 10 poultry management apps – and presented a criteria by which you can select one.

Furthermore, we have shortlisted 8 web and desktop poultry management software. However, we think these will most be suited for large scale and industrial commercial farming.

What is a poultry bookkeeping app

Essentially, a poultry bookkeeping app supports you in keeping track of your poultry’s finances.

That being said, we do not think bookkeeping and poultry management features should necessarily be different apps. In our case at Kukufarm, we support poultry farm management and record keeping.

Importantly, bookkeeping apps should support basic farmer preferences such as currency setting to say the least.

A poultry bookkeeping app is purposely built to support poultry farming business. Therefore it should be usable by poultry farmers and should add value to their work. Such apps we forecast will only become popular as small to medium poultry farming becomes widespread.

Features of a poultry bookkeeping app

There are number of features that a poultry bookkeeping app should support right out of the box.

To begin with, logging sales and expenses should be simple and straight forward. Secondly, you should be able to view records in a way that is simple to understand and act upon. Last but not least, you should be able to easily see your poultry’s performance trend.

Basic features of a poultry bookkeeping app

• Simple log entries for expenses and sales
• Presentation of data in a way that is simple to understand
• Ability to show financial trends over time – thus support long term planning
• Support user preferences e.g. currency setting

Without these, we think that an app cannot be useful for poultry bookkeeping. If anything it will end up taking too much time, to create confusing entries and in the long run will just become useless.

Benefits of using a poultry bookkeeping app

There are more pros to using to an app to keep poultry records. In fact, the pros outweigh the cons, if any. Visit our Youtube channel or Tiktok to see some videos of Kukufarm’s features.

To begin with, your records are always with you. As long as you’re using a poultry management app your records are always accessible. That means it is easier than ever to create and refer to the records. It also means you can bring your records to business or vet consultations.

We have talked to a number of farmers who have used Excel to keep poultry records. Without exception, they all struggled with creating and maintaining formulas. And at some point the sheets become too much to manage. With a dedicated app, you do not need to worry about formulas. All the heavy lifting happens in the background – in our case: like magic.

Importantly, most apps are always being updated. In addition to refining their features, new features are added. You can therefore be assured of continued feature support.

Moreover, even before choosing a certain app, you can try out a few. Additionally, farmer reviews and ratings of respective apps will give you a good indication of which would be best to choose.

Whats your take?

We would love to hear how you do poultry bookkeeping.

What app or software do you use? Perhaps you do it by hand or some dedicated poultry books from Etsy. What works for you, what do you struggle with? Any way we can help?

Let us know in the comments