Mother Hen 4+

Worth the cost!

With a flock of 80+ chickens for egg and chick sales this app is pretty much perfect!! I researched all the other free ones and this one is hands down the easiest to use without a bunch of fuss.

My only wish is that I could delete pics! Or even just rearrange them?? When playing around with the app I added a “baby” pic of a rooster then took a new one recently of him grown but the original pic that shows in the flock list is of him as the baby and while silly, it drives me NUTS because he looks like any other chick. I’ve got my 2021 chicks hatching that I REALLY want to upload pictures of to the app so I can tell them apart, especially my show breeds that come in various colors, but I don’t want that to be the only pic that will pop up on flock list is a bunch of chick pics that look the same. Yes I should know them by name... but with 100+ now with the new chicks I’m not that creative to name them all 😂

Developer Response ,

Glad to hear you like it so well!

I have a fun tip for you: If you press and hold on a picture, you can then choose to delete it or make it the main picture. Now you can update your pictures whenever you’d like.

Love this app!

Love so many things about this app! We have a small-ish flock of about 35 chickens, with about 14 of them laying so far. I’m able to recognize which hen laid by their eggs thus far, so I like being able to log eggs by hen. This app allows for that. I love being able to log an egg by egg color if I’m unsure which hen laid it. I love that I’m able to add breeds that aren’t listed very easily. However, it’s especially convenient that you have preloaded breed specific information on the breeds preloaded. Being able to log expenses is really beneficial. There are a couple things that I found that I wish were a bit different. I haven’t found a way to see a calendar with daily and weekly egg totals. I’ve only been using the app a couple days so it may be there? Also, I would love to be able to see my bird’s age somewhere. I can enter the hatch date and of course I could go back and add the weeks or months, but with my flock being less than a year old it would be nice if the age showed somewhere. Take my brahmas for instance. I know they hatched in September of 2020. I’d like to be able to click on that bird and see they are 4 months and 3 weeks old, or 20 weeks old, etc. not a big issue, just something I’ve wished my tracking apps had available. Overall this is a superb app!

Pretty good

I have a flock of about 50 chickens. I like the app, if I could change or add anything. It would be to be able to log an entry for multiple chickens at once or your whole flock. For example, my chickens are all receiving medication for 5 days. I had to go in to each chickens profile and individually add their medication treatment. Took over an hour. If the whole flock or multiple chickens are receiving same thing. It would be so much nicer to be able to mass add them. And a spot to add their feather/coat color. For instance my ameraucana are in multiple different colors. Even with pics it would be nice to have a list to pick from. For now
I’m typing into the notes tab on bottom. Or a spot for band # to be typed in close to chickens name. Rather then just the band color. It would be perfect with those changes!