Does FarmKeep track show results?

FarmKeep's 4-H and FFA tools help you prepare for shows: show dates, prep schedules, and entry requirements through task lists and calendars, plus record-book exports of health, feeding, expense, and weight records. We didn't find a feature that records placings or totals points per bird. Coop Companion's Show plan logs each show, class, variety, placing, and the points you enter, and totals the points per bird.

Yes. FarmKeep Basic is free forever, with unlimited animals, three active breeding groups, guest access, and limited invoices, plus a 14-day Premium trial. Premium costs $9.99/mo or $95.99/yr per farmkeep.com as of October 2026. Coop Companion's free tier covers one pen and one active hatch with all reminders, the roster, the egg log, and the 4-H export.

Which is cheaper for poultry only?

On paid plans, Coop Companion: Breeder is $49/yr ($6/mo) and Show is $69/yr ($8/mo), against FarmKeep Premium at $95.99/yr ($9.99/mo). Both have free plans, so a small flock may never need to pay for either. Compare the free limits (FarmKeep caps active breeding groups at three; Coop Companion caps you at one pen and one active hatch).

Is Coop Companion a good FarmKeep alternative?

For poultry breeders and exhibitors, yes. You get hatch tracking with reminders, pedigrees, a show log with per-bird points totals, and NPIP sales records at a lower paid price. For a mixed-species farm or a team of several people logging, FarmKeep is the better fit, because Coop Companion is poultry-only and has one user per account.

Does Coop Companion have a phone app?

It's a web app that installs to your phone's home screen (a progressive web app), so it opens like an app without the App Store or Google Play. FarmKeep has native iOS and Android apps.

Coop Companion vs FarmKeep for Poultry Breeders & Exhibitors

Verified October 2026

The short version

FarmKeep is a well-built general farm app: it covers over 1,200 species and breeds, lets you invite family and farm hands, runs breeding groups with candling and hatch-date notifications, builds and downloads pedigrees, and has a free Basic plan forever. Premium is $95.99/yr or $9.99/mo (per farmkeep.com, Oct 2026). Coop Companion does one job: poultry breeding and exhibition. It adds a show log that totals the points you record per bird, a sales ledger with NPIP source-flock and testing-date fields and a PDF export, and a 4-H poultry record export, for $49/yr (Breeder) or $69/yr (Show). Pick FarmKeep if you run goats, rabbits, or cattle alongside your birds or several people log chores. Pick Coop Companion if your birds are the operation and you show or sell hatching eggs.

Attribute	Coop Companion	FarmKeep
Free tier	Yes — 1 pen, 1 active hatch with species-timed candling and lockdown email reminders, roster, egg log, 4-H export	Yes — Basic is free forever: unlimited animals, 3 active breeding groups, unlimited guests, limited invoices
Paid price	Breeder $6/mo or $49/yr; Show $8/mo or $69/yr	Premium $9.99/mo or $95.99/yr; Commercial by quote
Species scope	Poultry and game birds only: chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guineas, quail, pheasants, peafowl	Multi-species: 1,200+ species and breeds, from poultry and rabbits to goats, sheep, and cattle
Multi-user access	No — one keeper per account	Yes — guests on Basic; unlimited admin, staff, and guests on Premium, with task assignment
Hatch / candling reminders	Yes — email on your species' candling and lockdown days (editable), never paywalled	Yes — set, lockdown, and hatch dates with candle-exam and hatch notifications
Pedigrees	Sire/dam lineage and public multi-generation pedigree pages to link in sale listings	Family trees and lineage charts; breeding records downloadable
Show log + points	Yes (Show plan) — every show, class, variety, placing, and the points you enter, totaled per bird	Show dates, prep tasks, and entry requirements; no placings or points tally that we found
NPIP sales records	Yes (Breeder+) — sales ledger with NPIP source flock and testing date, CSV and PDF export	General sales and expense invoices with CSV export; no NPIP-specific fields that we found
Egg-color programs	Per-pen egg color notes in the egg log; a dedicated egg-color program view is in development	Egg production tracking as a production type; no egg-color program tooling
4-H export	Yes (free) — birds, hatch records, egg production, and show record for poultry projects	Yes — exports health logs, feeding history, expenses, and weights for 4-H record books
Native app vs web	Web app you can install to your phone's home screen (PWA); no app-store app	Native iOS and Android apps, plus web/desktop
Maturity	Newer product, poultry-only focus	Established, broad feature set (tasks, health, land mapping, finances)

The verdict

FarmKeep is the better pick for a **mixed farm**: if your record-keeping covers dairy goats, meat rabbits, or a few steers alongside the laying flock, or if a spouse, kids, and a farm hand all need to log chores and health treatments, its species range, multi-user roles, and native apps earn the $95.99 a year. Coop Companion is the better pick for an **exhibition or hatching-egg poultry breeder**. Your show placings and points sit next to the bird's band and pedigree, and every hatching-egg sale carries the NPIP fields a buyer asks about. It costs $49–69 a year, and the free tier carries a one-pen, one-hatch season with all reminders.

What FarmKeep does well

FarmKeep earns its reputation. It is one of the few farm apps with a genuinely usable free plan: Basic is free forever, tracks unlimited animals, and includes three active breeding groups and guest access. For poultry, it logs set dates, lockdown dates, and hatch success for chickens, ducks, geese, and quail. It also sends notifications for candle exams and hatch dates, which covers the core of what most hatchers need.

Its real strength is breadth. FarmKeep supports more than 1,200 species and breeds, so the same app holds your goats' kidding dates, your rabbits' litters, your cattle, and your hens. You can invite family and farm hands and assign them tasks. Premium adds unlimited admins and staff, multiple farms, and unlimited invoices. Pedigrees are built in as family trees and lineage charts, and you can download breeding records for sales or compliance. It ships as native iOS and Android apps with a web version, and it has a 4-H/FFA project mode that exports health, feeding, expense, and weight records for record books.

Where Coop Companion is different

Coop Companion is built around how a poultry breeder's season works: pens of one cock over a few hens by band number, hatch runs from those pens, a roster of keepers and sale birds, and a show season on top. Because it is poultry-only, the data model uses poultry terms. Birds are cock, hen, cockerel, or pullet with a breed and variety. Pens record the cock's band and the hens' bands. Every hatch run reports the percentage of fertile eggs that hatched.

The biggest difference is the show log on the Show plan. You log each show (with APA, ABA, or both as the sanction), then each entry's class, variety, placing, and the points you earned. Coop Companion totals those points per bird. To be precise about what it does: you enter the points from your show results; it doesn't calculate them from entry counts, because points rules vary by organization and by show. FarmKeep helps you prepare for fairs with show dates, prep tasks, and entry requirements. We found nothing that records placings or tallies points per bird. If you're working toward a Master Exhibitor title, that running total is the record you'll keep coming back to.

The second difference is hatching-egg sales paperwork. Each sale in Coop Companion's ledger can carry the NPIP source flock and testing date, and the ledger exports to CSV and to an NPIP-ready PDF. FarmKeep's invoices are solid general accounting with CSV export, but they aren't shaped around NPIP. Coop Companion doesn't interpret NPIP rules for you, since requirements vary by state; it keeps the records together so you can hand them over when your state agency or a buyer asks.

It also costs less if poultry is all you keep: $49/yr for Breeder or $69/yr for Show, against $95.99/yr for FarmKeep Premium. The trade-offs are real. Coop Companion has one login per account, no native app-store app (it installs to your home screen as a web app), and a shorter track record.

Who should pick which

Pick FarmKeep if you run a mixed farm or homestead: birds plus goats, rabbits, sheep, or cattle, kept in one place, with several people logging chores, treatments, and sales. Its free plan is generous, and its multi-user setup is something Coop Companion doesn't offer.

Pick Coop Companion if you're an exhibition poultry breeder, a hatching-egg seller, or a 4-H poultry family. You want breed-and-variety records by band, pedigrees you can link from a sale listing, your placings and points totaled per bird across the season, and NPIP fields on every sale. Start on the free tier and run a full hatch with candling and lockdown reminders timed to your species; you only pay when you add a second pen or want the show log.

Plenty of keepers could reasonably use both: FarmKeep for the farm and Coop Companion for the show string. If you only keep birds, one poultry-specific tool usually means less double entry.

Frequently asked questions

Does FarmKeep track show results?: FarmKeep's 4-H and FFA tools help you prepare for shows: show dates, prep schedules, and entry requirements through task lists and calendars, plus record-book exports of health, feeding, expense, and weight records. We didn't find a feature that records placings or totals points per bird. Coop Companion's Show plan logs each show, class, variety, placing, and the points you enter, and totals the points per bird.
Is FarmKeep free?: Yes. FarmKeep Basic is free forever, with unlimited animals, three active breeding groups, guest access, and limited invoices, plus a 14-day Premium trial. Premium costs $9.99/mo or $95.99/yr per farmkeep.com as of October 2026. Coop Companion's free tier covers one pen and one active hatch with all reminders, the roster, the egg log, and the 4-H export.
Which is cheaper for poultry only?: On paid plans, Coop Companion: Breeder is $49/yr ($6/mo) and Show is $69/yr ($8/mo), against FarmKeep Premium at $95.99/yr ($9.99/mo). Both have free plans, so a small flock may never need to pay for either. Compare the free limits (FarmKeep caps active breeding groups at three; Coop Companion caps you at one pen and one active hatch).
Is Coop Companion a good FarmKeep alternative?: For poultry breeders and exhibitors, yes. You get hatch tracking with reminders, pedigrees, a show log with per-bird points totals, and NPIP sales records at a lower paid price. For a mixed-species farm or a team of several people logging, FarmKeep is the better fit, because Coop Companion is poultry-only and has one user per account.
Does Coop Companion have a phone app?: It's a web app that installs to your phone's home screen (a progressive web app), so it opens like an app without the App Store or Google Play. FarmKeep has native iOS and Android apps.

Sources

FarmKeep Pricing — FarmKeep (Manufacturer manual)
FarmKeep: Farm Management App — FarmKeep (Manufacturer manual)
Livestock Breeding Software — FarmKeep (Manufacturer manual)
4-H Project App — FarmKeep (Manufacturer manual)