Poultry Keeper app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Stroika
First release : 10 Jun 2010
App size: 5.84 Mb
Pocket guide for smallholders, home poultry keepers, breeders, enthusiasts and budding urban farmers.
Which are the best layers? How many eggs can you expect? What kind of conditions suit which breeds? Which make the best pets? Which produce the best meat?
Picture reference - how to recognize individual breeds by their feet, cone, plumage and eggs. Learn about different breeds characteristics including hardiness, broodiness, aggression, rate of maturity, times of year that they lay and more.
Tips on keeping single breeds or mixed flocks. Includes information on the background of breeds; where the originate from and how they were bred. Summary and links to further information from wikipedia and other resources.
Featuring over 60 breeds from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, USA and the UK including:
Araucana, Ancona, Barnevelder, Bearded dAnvers, Braekel, Black Shumen, Booted Bantam, Chantecler, Cochin, Cornish, Croad Langshan, Cubalaya, Delaware, Derbyshire Redcap, Dorking, Faverolles, Fayoumi, Frizzle, Hamburg, Houdan, Japanese Bantam, Jersey Giant, Kraienkopp, Lakenvelders, La Flèche, Marans, Orpington, Plymouth Rock, Red Shaver, Silkie, Sumatra, Sussex, Vorwerk, Welsummer, White-Faced Black, Yurlov Crower and many more.
Icon image credit: Paul Nettles at flickr.
Latest reviews of Poultry Keeper app for iPhone and iPad
Dont purchase...no content.
Good app if you want a reference to chickens at your fingertips; bad price. The photos are mostly from flickr, and the info could be a tad more descriptive. I think that a good price for this app would be $2.99 at the very most.
Overpriced Ripp Off App! Commentary used can be found elsewhere! Do yourself a favor and simply google or wikipedia what youre looking for and youll have more sucess!
I saw the reviews, but I have a gardening group that was looking for some type of good reference on chickens. I went ahead and bit the bullet for the group to see what it is. Its a shameful app - and shame on me for spending $4.99 on it. The app has a start screen, a "search" option, which will take you to 1 photo of the bird - I tend to think one that is just taken off the web. You get a small bit of information on the breed. If the app developer actually spent the time truly crafting it, I give them some credit, but I tend to think they may have found this somewhere and just put in app, but I dont know. If you click on this weird-looking green paper clip/link, you get taken to more info on the breed - straight off WikiPedia. Unimagnative, bad design, and poor content. It is not an exaggeration to say its a rip off. I dont know if I would have paid money for this at all at any price had I seen some type of app demo. Its no wonder the support lnks for this app dont work.
Ripoff! Too much money for too little information (lifted from other sources, at that)!