How do you all keep track of you eggs to date? (Poll)

[paradisepentacoop]

Hey all! My hens started laying about two weeks ago and I want to implement a form of tracking at the exact two week mark. Reasons being I am super curious, chicken health, and for fun. :}

 

[FrostRanger]

I just make a mental note of who's laying and how often. My flock is small so I can fairly easily keep track of that mentally

 

[TillyPeeps]

I use a free app called Flockstar. It can show individual bird's record and the whole flock record, and allow you to compare eggs laid with previous months and years. I'm curious about what everybody else use for their record.

 

[nuthatched]

I don't keep track

 

[Tookie]

I use a free app called Flockstar. It can show individual bird's record and the whole flock record, and allow you to compare eggs laid with previous months and years. I'm curious about what everybody else use for their record.

x2! I use Flockstar as well, it’s a wonderful app.

But I’m pretty sure you have to pay for it now? In May or June I paid $2 for a month and now I believe it’s automatically renewing. Unless they changed it back to being free.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

I have used Flockstar for 3 years. I pay annually.
I can tract multiple flocks, eggs, sales and expenses.
Flockstar recently added a hatching feature that calculates fertility and hatch rates, and graphs run trends.

 

[TillyPeeps]

x2! I use Flockstar as well, it’s a wonderful app.

But I’m pretty sure you have to pay for it now? In May or June I paid $2 for a month and now I believe it’s automatically renewing. Unless they changed it back to being free.

If you want all the features, you will need to pay for it. But I only use it to track my flock's egg laying and their age, so I just use the free vision.

 

[Tookie]

If you want all the features, you will need to pay for it. But I only use it to track my flock's egg laying and their age, so I just use the free vision.

Ah, okay.
Although I remember going onto the app once and being told I had to pay for it.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Just be careful if you are a new chicken owner. I have seen way too many new owners closely monitor every activity of their chickens and become what I call a “Chickocondriac”. Which is when they monitor everything their chicken does so closely that when their chicken does something perfectly normal, but they haven’t observed it before they go into emergency mode. For example they have observed their chickens lay Monday,Wednesday, Friday, but this week their chickens laid Tuesday Thursday or skipped laying for a week or two altogether (perfectly normal and healthy if showing no other health signs). So they start dunking their chickens in baths, separating them, shoving their hands up their vents and calcium pills down their throats, restricting food or giving them a bunch of treats they shouldn’t have. Then the chicken goes from perfectly healthy to stressed out and in shock because of the owners actions not because the chicken was sick originally. It may sound silly, but I see it all of the time on here especially.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

They lay wherever, and I can’t reach the eggs under the porch. My stepdad even found an egg in the garage yesterday!