Six hens, one bucket of feed, and no idea what an egg costs
Everyone with hens has a strong opinion about whether the eggs are cheaper than the shop and nobody has the number. Count them into the bowl each morning, note the feed and, on the day you buy a sack, what it cost, and the log divides one by the other. Two months in you know your flock’s laying rate, what a wet fortnight does to it, and whether the sack of layers pellets is paying for itself.
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Eggs collected, feed put out, how many hens, and whether the coop got cleaned.
Also called an egg tracker, backyard chicken log, laying record or poultry diary.
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‹Backyard chickens⚙
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Sum Eggs · 14 entries
7 / 7 this week
Today
6 Eggs · 0.8 kg Feed · 7 Hens · No Cleaned
Yesterday
6 Eggs · 0.8 kg Feed · 7 Hens · Yes Cleaned
Sat 24 Oct
3 Eggs · 0.8 kg Feed · 7 Hens · No Cleaned
Fri 23 Oct
5 Eggs · 0.8 kg Feed · 7 Hens · No Cleaned · 9.9 € Feed cost
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What you’ll track
The Backyard chickens log, out of the box
One entry per session, with the timer and location always available. Add or rename variables any time in log settings.
Variable
Type
Stats shown
Eggs
Number
Sum, Average, Avg per week
Feed · kg
Number
Sum
Hens
Number
Average
Cleaned
Yes / no
Count and share of yes
Feed cost · €
Number
Sum
Timer
Built in
Total time, per entry duration
Location
Built in
Pin or place, shown on the log map
Notes, photos, sketches, voice memos
Built in
Attached to any entry
61
Sum Eggs
4.4
Average Eggs
21.3
Avg per week Eggs
10.8kg
Sum Feed
How it works
From install to first entry in a minute
1
Pick “Backyard chickens” during setup
The log is created with the variables above and a few example entries so you can see how it works. Clear them with one tap.
2
Log as you go
Tap plus, fill in what you have, save. Timer, location, notes and photos are there when you want them, hidden when you don’t.
3
Let the stats accumulate
Sum eggs sits on the log card, with the rest one tap away. Set a goal if you want a nudge.
Why this log
Built for the way you actually do it
Cost per egg, kept up to date
Enter what a sack cost on the morning you buy it, and the log divides every euro of feed in it by every egg in it. That is the number every conversation about backyard hens is really about, next to eggs per kilo of feed.
Laying rate that survives a change in the flock
Record how many hens you have and the log keeps eggs per hen per day as its own figure. Two pullets joining in September stops looking like a collapse in productivity, because the rate accounts for them while they settle in.
A daily streak that is actually a habit
Somebody opens the coop every morning anyway. The daily goal makes the entry part of that, and the streak is the one on the overview that will still be alive in six months.
Everything else in the app
Not just a form. A logbook that thinks with you.
The Backyard chickens log is one log among many you can keep. Every one of them gets the same tools.
💡AI analysis
AI reads the pattern for you
Tap the bulb on Backyard chickens and get a plain-language read of your trends, what changed recently, and a suggested next goal, built only from your own entries.
🎯Goals
Goals, streaks and reminders
Set a target like three times a week, watch the rolling progress bar, keep a streak, and get a reminder at the time you actually log. The app learns that time from you.
📅Calendar
A calendar heatmap per log
Every log has its own month view showing which days you logged. Gaps are obvious, consistency is visible, and one tap opens that day's entries.
🔁Rounds
Several rounds in one entry
Every exercise in a workout, every piece in a practice session: logged together in one entry, broken out automatically in the stats.
📷Attachments
Photos, sketches, voice memos
Attach a photo, draw a quick sketch, or record a voice note on any entry. They stay with that entry and come back on every device you sign in on.
🗺️Map
Every entry on a map
Drop a pin or search for the place. Each log has a map view of everywhere you logged, and saved places open directly in Google Maps.
🔍Search
Search across everything
Find an entry by title, note or value across every log, filter by date or location, and jump straight to it.
🔒Privacy
Yours, offline first
Entries save on your phone first and sync when you sign in. No account needed to start, no feed, no one else sees your data.
Who keeps an egg log
People a year into keeping hens, past the novelty and now buying feed by the sack, who want to know whether the arithmetic works. Smallholders selling eggs at the gate, for whom the laying rate is the difference between a sign that says "eggs" and one that says "sold out". And families where the kids collect the eggs, which turns the log into the small daily job that they will actually do.
It also suits anyone running a mixed flock or adding birds. Point-of-lay pullets, a broody hen and a bird in moult make the raw count meaningless, and eggs per hen is the only figure that stays comparable across a year.
What a season of mornings shows
Eggs per hen per day is the figure that tells you about the flock. Good layers in summer sit near one; anything settled around 0.5 over a month is a flock that is either old, short of daylight or short of protein, and the feed column usually says which. Compare a week of frost with a week in June and the daylight effect is immediate and much larger than most people expect.
The feed ratio is the one that answers the money question. Six hens on a kilo a day producing four eggs means roughly a quarter of a kilo of feed per egg, and with the sack prices in the log the cost per egg is right there to compare with the shop. It rarely comes out as cheap as people hope, and it is almost always cheaper than it looks in the week you buy the feed and the eggs come two days later.
Questions
Frequently asked
What do I do on a day I do not collect?
Log the next morning with everything you found, and put a note on it. Two days of eggs in one entry will look like a record day, so the note is what stops you believing it a year later.
How do I handle a sack of feed rather than a daily scoop?
Either weigh the scoop once and enter that figure each day, or log the whole sack on the day you open it and leave Feed empty otherwise. Put the price in Feed cost on the day you buy it. The ratios are a sum over a sum, so both give the right answer over a month.
Can I count eggs per breed?
Only if your hens lay into separate nest boxes, which they will not. Most people keep the flock total and use the notes for the ones they can tell apart — the blue egg, the enormous double-yolker — and search finds those later.
What about the moult?
Log through it. The weeks where five hens produce two eggs a day are exactly what makes the annual figure honest, and having last year’s moult in the log is what stops the next one being a worry.
