Backyard Chickens & Coturnix Quail: Incubating Hatching Eggs and Chicken Breeding Poultry Pro App Explained: Using Data, Genetics & Technology to Breed Better Birds | Poultry Nerds Podcast
Jan 8, 2026
Join Brie, an agricultural engineering student and software developer, as she discusses her innovative Poultry Pro app designed for poultry breeders. She shares how it transforms data management for egg production, health checks, and profitability tracking. Brie highlights the challenges of mobile app development and the importance of data in breeding healthier birds. With features like pedigree management and cost analysis, Poultry Pro empowers all breeders, from hobbyists to professionals, to make informed decisions and streamline operations.
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Plan For Mobile Sync Complexity
- Use a native mobile app to work offline and sync data to the web, especially when handling many on-farm users.
- Expect development complexity: syncing app and web databases and meeting App Store/Play Store requirements.
Data Centralizes Poultry Decisions
- Brie built Poultry Pro to replace messy spreadsheets and centralize flock, egg, feed, and health data for breeders of any scale.
- The app benchmarks users against real breeder averages to reveal performance gaps and trends.
From Ten Spreadsheets To An App
- Brie converted ten messy spreadsheets into a single app after her boss challenged her to stop juggling files.
- She designed Poultry Pro to be simple enough that farm workers and relatives could use it without training.