Keeping records

[Anonymous]

Has anyone got a good recording system for egg laying, health checks, maintenance etc. Thanks.

 

[Davidd]

Hi and welcome to the forum
You can get computer programmes for chicken keeping but also you could keep a daily log -either on your PC or in a number of books- egg laying, breeding records, ages when worming/lice treatment due etc.
If you "google chicken keeping pc software" there are a few.
regards, David

 

[Blue]

i have a diary where I jot down how many eggs, amount of milk from the goat and things like that.
also bad weather - you can see how it affects the egg production.
keep it somewhere you'll see it every day so you a) dont lose it and b) remember to write it!

 

[victorias poultry]

Bad enough keeping records for accountants never mind egg nos, etc :lol:

 

[Blue]

there's lots of big gaps, where it was too much trouble or was too busy to write... but it is useful to have
and when I write my memoirs when I'm famous.... :lol:

 

[Lucylou]

I was interested to see who & how many eggs my chooks were laying, so I set up a very basic excell spreadsheet & each month I print off a new page (& there it is pinned to the kitchen wall) so all I have to do is tick the appropriate column each day. Date down the side, names across the top, its easy when you only have 4
Quite interesting looking back over the months. I just felt that as I haven't got much to compare with, it would give me some sort of basis to go on.

 

[ncotb]

I use a diary, record who lays, worming, any sniffles, de lousing, etc also have a book with useful phone numbers & stockists, plus a little book of remedies for things.

 

[true-bantam-mad]

i alwaysfind an excel page on the computer works!
Dan