A poultry farm app is an important tool for small to medium scale poultry farmers. Essentially, it enables you to manage your flocks and keep poultry records. Moreover, a poultry farm app is your gateway to practicing data based poultry farming.
Also see 6 tips for keeping poultry records with Kukufarm.
Keeping poultry records is fundamental to running your poultry farm and business. Without poultry records, you have no option than to geusstimating the performance of your flocks. Unfortunately, this is a recipe for disaster.
What is a poultry farm app
A poultry farm app is an app that is purposely built for the management of poultry. Typically, you can download such apps from Google Play, App Store or Huawei’s App Gallery.
Apps built for poultry farmers have a variety of functionalities to support you in poultry farm management and record keeping. Below are key features that we think a poultry farm app should have:
- Flock and livestock management
- Poultry farm bookkeeping
- Flock performance tracking
- Egg production and production rate tracking
- Mortality and liveability rate tracking
- Data analysis to support data based poultry farming
There are currently over 20 poultry farm management apps on both Google Play and App Store. We have previously discussed a criteria for choosing what poultry farm app may be best for you. Furthermore, we have also done a quick overview on poultry app subscription tiers and pricing.
FYI, you can set up your poultry farm on Kukufarm poultry app in less than a minute.
Benefits of using a poultry farm app
There are several benefits to using a poultry farm app. Of course, this depends on where you are coming from.
Traditionally, poultry farmers have mostly used written notes or computer software such as Excel to keep poultry records. However, such methods require a lot of manual effort. A poultry app automates all the formula and data handling work for you.
By keeping flock records, you can practice data based decision making. For instance, you can track by day, week and month, for instance, how much expenses they have incurred and what sales the’ve made.
Furthermore, you can use such data to determine the capital they need for instance, to purchase new flocks. Moreover, you can also easily determine their flocks’ mortality rate, egg production and production rates.
Lastly but not least, since apps are usually updated, you are likely to get more feature support. Essentially, this means that you can focus more on the farming side of things when you use an app to handle farm management and record keeping.