Stockbook: Small Livestock Log

Stockbook is a record book for small livestock: chickens, ducks, quail, goats, sheep and rabbits, all in one app. It is made for the keeper with six hens and two goats in the backyard, not for a farm office.

ONE TAP PER EGG
Tap the row of a flock and the egg is counted. Today's total sits on the first screen next to the daily average of the last 7 days, and the last entry can be undone. Milk, wool, honey, meat and fiber take an amount with decimals instead, because milk is measured and eggs are counted.

FLOCKS, HERDS AND SINGLE ANIMALS
Chickens and other poultry are usually kept by flock, so a flock here is a group with its count, its place and as many breeds as it really has. Goats and sheep in a small herd, and rabbits in a rabbitry, are usually kept one by one: ear tattoo or tag, breed, sex and birth date. Stockbook keeps both kinds of records side by side, and the list can be grouped by species or by place.

INCUBATION AND GESTATION DATES
Set a batch of eggs or write down a mating, and Stockbook lays out the dates: candling, second candling, lockdown, hatch day and the day to clear the eggs that did not hatch; pregnancy check, nest box, birth watch and the birth itself. A hen's eggs hatch 21 days after they go into the incubator, a mallard duck's after 28 days and a muscovy's after 35 days; coturnix quail hatch after 17 days and bobwhite after 23 days. A doe rabbit kindles 31 days after mating, a goat kids at about 150 days and a ewe lambs at about 147 days. The days come from university extension sources, and the app says on screen that each date is an estimate and not a fixed day: temperature moves a hatch.

EVERYTHING STAYS ON THIS PHONE
Everything stays on this phone. No account, no signal needed. There is no cloud, no syncing between phones and no ads, and nothing you write is sent anywhere: the records of your livestock live on this phone, which is why the app works in the coop, at the hutches and in the barn, where the animals are.

MADE TO BE READ
Three text sizes, a light theme and a dark one, and six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese.

WHO IT IS FOR
Backyard chicken keepers, homesteaders and small livestock breeders who want plain record keeping for their flock, their herd and their litters, on the phone that goes to the barn.

If a date or a count does not add up, write to us and it gets looked at.