Aviary Management App for Bird Breeders
An aviary management app is software built to run the day-to-day and season-to-season work of keeping birds — every bird's own record, who's paired with whom, what's been treated and what's due, and what the aviary has actually earned and spent. Pakhal is that app, built specifically for bird breeders rather than adapted from a generic pet or livestock tool.
Why breeders move off notebooks and spreadsheets
A notebook can't search itself, and a spreadsheet doesn't stop you typing a ring number wrong or forgetting which pair a chick came from. As a flock grows past a dozen or two birds, keeping records straight by hand gets slower and less reliable exactly when it matters most — at hatching, at sale, and when a bird needs its next dose on time. An aviary management app exists to remove that friction: one searchable place, on your phone, that's already organised the way a breeder thinks.
Bird records, kept the way a breeder actually works
Every bird gets one record — ring number, species, mutations, sex, cage and status — and Pakhal auto-prefixes home-bred ring IDs with your own aviary code and hatch year, so your physical rings and your digital records never drift apart. Birds are grouped by species automatically, matching how most aviaries are actually laid out.
Breeding pairs, clutches and pedigree, connected
Pair a cock and hen and Pakhal tracks clutches, eggs and hatch dates against that pairing, then carries the sire and dam straight onto any chick you convert from a hatched egg — so pedigree builds itself instead of being re-typed by hand. Unpairing a pair never touches its clutch history or any chick's pedigree.
Health routines that don't get buried
Medication, deworming and supplement routines can target your whole aviary, one species, or specific birds — including a shortcut for birds currently in an active breeding pair. Today's doses sit at the top of the page, in your own time zone, so a course that's actually due is never lost under a long list of finished ones.
Aviary finance, not a separate spreadsheet
Sales and expenses feed one running total, split by payment channel — cash, bank, mobile money — so you can see both your overall net position and exactly where your liquidity sits. A bird's purchase price can become its matching expense automatically, so a purchase only has to be entered once.
Built for one aviary's real workflow, not a generic dashboard
Pakhal doesn't try to be a livestock platform with birds bolted on. Ring ID conventions, species-specific mutation catalogues, clutch and hatch tracking, and per-bird pedigree are the core of the product, not an afterthought — because that's what running an aviary actually involves.