Multiple Currency Support

Users from outside the USA (Canada, Europe, and the UK) can now start a subscription in their own currency.

Flock Happy now supports Canadian Dollar (CAD), Euros (EUR), and Pound Sterling (GBP)

Improved Checkout Experience

New checkout experience powered by Stripe allows for local currency support, and ability to apply promotional codes for discounts.

Manage Subscription

You can now cancel auto-renewal subscriptions from the settings page.

Page Tabs

Eggs, Animals, and Finances pages are now split into three tabs: List, Summary, and Charts.

This change allows more content to be presented as we expand the the amount of data listed, and charts available.

Charts Upgrades

Donut charts are now uniform in size. Legends are now a larger size making them easier to click on and interact with.

Introducing new charts for: Animals by Sex, Animals by Species. Adding to Animals by Breed, these two new charts allow for a quick glance at your livestock breakdown.

UI Improvements

User Interface has been upgraded in many places.

Expense Items are now more explicit, making them easier to comprehend.

Animal List filters now show as a pop-over dialog instead of embedded into the page.

Bug fix for layout shift when visiting animals list.

Animal listings now use an extra line to prevent over-run for animals with long names or breed names. New icon for Enclosure. Animal Checkbox and Animal Menu icons are now reversed.

What's New Panel

When launching the app, you will be presented with a panel showing the changes since the last time you opened the app.

Knowing what has changed will allow you to jump right in and start using new features.

Customizable Homepage

You can now choose which components appear on the homepage, allowing you to have just the features you need quick access to.

Home, Eggs, and Finance Page Pagination

To improve performance the home timeline, egg collection timeline, and finance timeline are now paginated. By default 15 items will be shown in the list. A new Load More button will then add another 15 items to the list.

By paginating results, pages will load faster.

Layout refactor and performance improvements

Changing between pages will now leave the bottom navigation in-place for a smoother feel.

Page loading is now performed using Suspense and in-time loading. This reduces the initial page-load time and will improve performance on slow connections

New Species Supported: Deer

One of the oldest and most versatile species known to man

Sale Customer Type

New field for sales: Customer Type. Differentiate sales for: Retail, Business, Friends, Family, Neighbors and Self.

Recording sale for self is an easy way to track your own consumption vs other sales.

New Sales Field: Eggs Sold

Record quantity of Eggs Sold per sale.

View a calculated price per egg on each sale

New Species Supported: Bison

Manage your Bison, the largest mammal native to North America

Improved Finance UI

Finance figures (currencies) now show as properly formatted to two decimal places.

Record Sales

Track sales for eggs (more product types coming) by species

Profit Breakdown

Easily see your recent profit performance for the last 7, 14, 30, 90 days and its change to the period before.

View Sales over time

See running total of sales over time

View Sales by Species

See which of your animals is making the most

New Species Supported: Dog, Cat

Like many people who own a lot of different kinds of farm animals, we have some barn cats and a dog. Now you can add your dogs and cats, and manage their records.

See egg production changes for last 7, 14, 30, 90 days

A new summary shows total eggs collected over different periods along with the relative change % from the previous period.

Each period is color-coded depending on the change vs the previous period (yellow for negative, green for positive)

View Animals Grouped By Breed, Sex

Adding to our existing options (species, and enclosure): Two new ways to group animals: breed or sex.

Chart upgrades

Charts now use the same font as the rest of Flock Happy

Bugfixes

Animal Menu button no longer causes layout shift when opening menu.

Timeline entry for Animal started Laying will no longer show for animals that died before their start of lay date.

Tech Dependency Upgrades

Upgrades to Amazon Web Services, NextJS, Material UI.

New Species Supported: Cattle

Add your cattle, and manage their records.

New animal views

New option to view animals grouped by enclosure or species.

When viewing animals in grouped mode, the multi-animal selection and multi-animal actions are specific to that group.

New user preference: Show Broken Eggs

The broken eggs field is now hidden by default. A new user preference toggle is now available for showing this field.

When toggle is on, broken eggs field is shown.

Egg list improvements

Broken eggs count for previous collections only show if the number is greater than 0.

New icon for broken eggs.

Timeline improvements

Broken eggs count now will in home timeline for collections with broken eggs.

Responsive Species Selector

Species select boxes are now responsive to their context. When filtering animals, only species of your animals will appear. When adding new animals, only species selected in settings will appear.

New Species Supported: Sheep

Add your sheep, and manage their records.

Optionally specify an enclosure for expenses

Enclosure can be set for both new and existing expenses

Expenses By Enclosure Chart

Easily see literally where you are spending your money

Expense Enclosures in Timeline

If an enclosure is set for an expense, it will show in the home timeline and finances page

UI Fixes

Fix animals page layout shift (Animals by Breed Chart)

Roadmap update

Homepage updated with new roadmap for future releases

New Species Support: Ostrich

Another feathered friend to add to our world

Expenses Charts

This release also features layout improvements for modal forms, and fixes a bug where expenses would show in animal timeline.

New note type: Award

Use to record all your show awards

New expense types

medical, fencing, equipment, seed, fuel, supplements, livestock, services, utilities, fees, licensing, packaging, administration, construction, labor

Finance Page

See a list of previous expenses

Timeline expense items

Expense items show in the timeline on the homepage.

Bug fixes and enhancements to egg collections

You can now only go back 5 and edit to record previous egg collections

Previous egg collection list

List will show approximate eggs/layer for historic collections. All collections logged since Jan 19th are actual eggs/layers number.

Eggs per layer chart enhancements

Eggs per layer chart will now look back at historic collections too.

Animal Profile Page

Shows parents, children, and a timeline.

Animal Timeline

Each animal profile page shows a timeline of events related to that animal.

Eggs Broken

Recording how many eggs were cracked or broken.

Laying Animals

Flock Happy now records how many animals were set as laying at the time of collection in the enclosure.

Eggs per Laying Hen

Egg Collections now have a stat to show overall efficiency. When egg collections are recorded, the number of animals set as layers will be recorded with the collection, as well has how many eggs per hen.

Improved Egg Collections List

See Eggs Broken, Eggs per Layer and Eggs per Layer per Year

New Chart - Average Eggs per Layer per Year

Avg. Eggs per Layer per year chart helps track the efficiency of your flock.

New Note Types: Social, Weather, and Welfare

New Home Timeline

Shows a history of events:

Animal Born

Animal Started Laying

Animal Died

Notes

Eggs collected

NoteImages

Noteworthy events are usually worth adding an image or two. This update allows adding images to notes

Fullscreen Image View

Images are now clickable to bring up a large view at higher resolution.

Date Constraints

When picking dates for animal started laying or animal died, there are now minimum and maximum dates that can be selected.

This makes sure that animals can only be born in the past (for now!), their start of lay date must be after they are born, and their died date can not be before their birth date.

Better Subscribe Process

After subscribing, the app will update in real-time. (Instead of having to refresh page)

New enclosure types: Stall and Stable

Note Types

Add categorization to your notes: medical, shelter, feed, breeding, general, behavior

Ability to edit notes.

Image Processing

Images are now resized on-upload once, and never again. Makes loading images much quicker.

Egg Collections

Egg Collection form changes. When using viewing previous days on the egg collection form, you will see all enclosures and species you keep.

This is to ensure that all previous egg collections are visible, even if the enclosure no longer has laying birds in it.

Charts

Chart improvements for breed donut chart - Chunks are now sorted by thenumber of animals correctly.

Animal Profile Image

Fix Animal list header floating above bottom navigation

Fix bug where breed name could be empty

Fix bug where animal species could not be changed

Subscriptions

Flock Happy is now a paid service with a free trial. This update introduces user subscriptions, trial, and account management.

New Animals By Breed donut chart

Improved Egg Collections Chart

New homepage layout

New homepage, animal summary, log egg collection, see recent notes.

Multi-animal action: Add Note

Single-animal action: Add Note.

New filter: Animal status (living/past)

Animals with a died date by default do not show up in the animals list. A new filter allows you to view living animals, or past animals.

New field: Animal cause of death

When an animal dies, you can set a cause of death for your records.

Bulk Actions

The first actions available are: move animals (to a different enclosure), and set a laying date.

We will introduce more multi-animal actions in coming releases.

Add text-based freeform tags with colors to animals. Use them to more easily manage and search for your animals.

We are making it easier to work with larger numbers of animals.

Checkboxes allow you to select multiple animals to take action.

Tags

Mark legband numbers, wingband numbers, toe-punch notation, flag animals that need attention, identify potential breeding stock, and whatever else you can imagine.

Tags are intentionally flexible. Use them however you see best to help manage your flock.

Egg Collections

Previously, enclosures had settings for which species they contain, and if to record eggs (and show on this form).

This release removes the need for this manual configuration. Instead, enclosures and species shown are based off the which of your animals are laying.

Per-Animal Start of Lay Date

Animals can be explicitly set as laying. Useful for when you know specific members are laying before 26 weeks old.

Create Enclosure inside the Animal Form

When adding/editing animals, it is now possible to add a new Enclosure without leaving the animal form.

Flock Search & Filter

Find animals by name, sex, breed, enclosure, and more.

Bug Fixes

Fixes a bug on animal form that disassociated animal from breed.

Animal Records

Raising poultry for eggs, or meat requires diligent record keeping. Our new flock management features make this a breeze.

This is just the first animals release - Future releases will include search, filtering, animal tagging/banding, images and much more!

Your Flock Records

Add animals, set their enclosures, breeds, hatch dates (age).

Flock names

Generate names for your flock

Naming animals can be tedious when you have a lot. Luckily we have a huge choice of built-in names ready to use. They can be randomly assigned to new animals.

Breeds

Add Breed information to animals. Breeds are entirely custom, so you can enter any standard, hybrid, or completely custom breed name (useful for starting breeding programs).

Setup Guide

When logging in for the first time, there is now a comprehensive getting started workflow that will have you up and running quickly. Choose species, add enclosures, add animals to enclosures, set some preferences.

Choose if to record egg collections for specific enclosures

Tech Upgrades

Upgraded to NextJS 13

Upgraded to AWS Amplify 5

New setting to Record egg collections by enclosure and species

Animal Enclosures

Add your animal enclosures, and choose which species occupy them

Record your egg collections by enclosure and species

Record your egg collections by species

Visualize your flocks egg production by species

Previous egg collections list have option to see species based breakout.

User Settings

New Species user setting: Choose which species you keep.

This setting will be used to control which species you can record egg collections for in an upcoming release.

Sign-in form now has option to remember login (Remember me)

Egg Collections Chart

Egg Collection chart now includes time-frame buttons. Visualize your egg collections for the last 7, 30, 90 days, one year and from first collection onwards.

Egg Collections Form

Improved layout for Egg Collection form. Only enable save button when changes not saved.

Egg Collections List

Improved list layout for previous collections.

Visualizations for egg collection data

See eggs collected per day on a bar chart

User preferences

Email Newsletter Opt In user preference

Fixes

Redirect to homepage after sign-out