Growing Eggs
Create and update incubation batches, keep hatch dates visible, and quickly see whether anything is currently incubating.
Home Assistant project
Quail Hatchery Dashboard
A family-friendly incubator and flock dashboard that follows each hatch from eggs to chicks, keeps tagged birds tied to their original batch, and turns the day-to-day numbers into a simple visual story.
Home Assistant
Hatch Tracking
Bird Tags
Family Dashboard
Home Assistant screenshots
The hatchery at a glance.
The interface is intentionally visual and approachable: incubation status on the left, hatch history in the center, and permanent bird/tag records on the right.
Start a new hatch
Create a batch with egg count, species, start date and incubation milestones.
Edit batch details
Review and update a batch’s dates, egg count and incubation settings.
Record hatch results
Track hatched chicks, infertile eggs and losses, with hatch-rate and accounting feedback.
Tags, notes and batch actions
Assign or edit bird tags, save hatch notes and manage archived batches.
Screenshots show the supplied installation and sample hatch records. Select a workflow image to view it at full size.
Project summary
One dashboard for the entire hatch story.
The goal is not just to count eggs. It is to preserve the history of every hatch and make the information useful for the family long after incubation is finished.
Family Hatch History
Archived batches remain useful after hatch day with age, hatch totals, infertility, losses, and hatch/fertility rates retained as a family record.
Quail Tag Registry
Each tagged bird can stay linked back to the hatch it came from, while the dashboard highlights active tags and chicks that still need tags.
What the dashboard tracks
Useful details without turning it into a spreadsheet.
The dashboard surfaces the information that matters day-to-day while keeping the deeper history available inside each hatch record.
- Active incubation batches and eggs being tracked.
- Next lockdown and expected hatch timing.
- Total chicks hatched and hatch success percentage.
- Current age of each completed hatch in weeks and days.
- Hatched, infertile, and lost egg counts for each batch.
- Overall hatch rate and fertile hatch rate.
- Tagged birds associated with their original hatch.
- Chicks that still need a permanent tag.
Built in Home Assistant
A practical household project, not a standalone app.
The hatchery view lives alongside the rest of the home's dashboards and can grow into environmental sensing, incubator alerts, coop monitoring, and additional automation later.
Touch-friendly
Large cards and clear status blocks work well on tablets and wall displays.
History-first
Completed batches remain visible instead of disappearing after hatch day.
Expandable
The same project can later include temperature, humidity, incubator health, and coop sensors.
Community package · v0.1.1 beta
Bring the hatchery into your Home Assistant.
A HACS custom integration bundle with the tracker, dashboard, reusable card, all 27 helpers, artwork, JSON storage, and configurable daily milestone alerts.
One bundle, your own hatch history.
The installer prepares the files and starts new installations with an empty database. Existing batch records and edited files are preserved. Helpers live together in a Home Assistant YAML package; hatch results and bird tags stay in JSON.
Requires Pyscript, Mushroom, Auto Entities, Card Mod and Browser Mod. Enable the helper package, register the dashboard, and select your own phone notification action using the included guide.
Installation, migration & updates
The four-page guide walks through dependencies, setup, file paths, optional notifications, preserving existing data and handling updates.
Installation Guide · PDF · v0.1.0Public beta: package and simulated lifecycle tests pass; live Home Assistant/Pyscript/frontend validation is still pending. Available as a custom repository, with no claim of default HACS catalog inclusion.