Chicken-Flock Tracking Integration

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A Home Assistant integration for backyard flock management. Track egg production history, manage bird profiles with photos, and maintain a permanent record of your flock — all stored locally in JSON and surfaced through a polished Lovelace card.

Designed specifically for those looking to exit paid services like FlockStar or otherwise. This is a backyard management application, NOT a commercial flock management hub. Claude was used heavily in development as I am not an expert developer by any means, but intend to support this as best I can as issues arise.

Basic Usage

  • Install the integration
  • register the card in resources
  • drop the card on a new dashboard
  • add birds, import data as necessary
  • add photos, notes, etc
  • begin recording daily
  • at midnight every night, counters reset to zero, counts are saved to JSON file
  • historical data and stats are populated automatically from live entries and JSON data file

Installation

Integration Via HACS (recommended)

  1. In HACS, go to Integrations → ⋮ → Custom repositories
  2. Add https://github.com/ChavoDeLa/ha-chicken-flock as an Integration
  3. Find Chicken Flock in the HACS integration list and install
  4. Restart Home Assistant

Lovelace card Via HACS (recommended)

  1. In HACS, go to Frontend → ⋮ → Custom repositories
  2. Add https://github.com/ChavoDeLa/ha-chicken-flock-card as Dashboard
  3. Find Chicken Flock Card and install
  4. Refresh your browser

Configuration

  1. Go to Settings → Devices & Services → Add Integration
  2. Search for Chicken Flock
  3. Click through the one-step setup

Manage your flock from the Lovelace card. No YAML configuration is needed.

Adding the card to your dashboard

type: custom:chicken-flock-card

Recorder configuration (recommended)

Add to configuration.yaml to prevent large attribute payloads from causing recorder warnings:

recorder:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.flock_egg_history
      - sensor.flock_roster
    entity_globs:
      - number.flock_*

No additional configuration options required. All settings are in the card’s :gear: Settings tab.

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