Sites and houses
Set up the physical structure of your operation - sites for locations and houses for the buildings inside them.
Last updated 2026-07-05
Sites and houses
Before you can place a lot, PoultryDesk needs to know the shape of your operation. That is two simple ideas: a site is a physical location - a farm, a yard, a plot - and a house is a building inside it where birds live or eggs are set. Every lot lives in one or more houses at a site.
Add a site
- Open Sites (under Locations) and choose Add site.
- Give it a name, and an optional address. If you add an address it is placed on the map view.
- Submit.
Most small operations have a single site. You can add more at any time as you grow.
Add houses
Houses are added to a site, and you can add several at once.
- Open the site and choose Add houses.
- Enter how many houses you have. PoultryDesk generates a row for each, named House 1, House 2, and so on.
- Rename any row and set an optional capacity, then commit them all in one step.
For a hatchery, each setter or hatcher cabinet is recorded as a house.
More than one site
If you run several farms, add a site for each. You can switch between them in the app, and your reports can be viewed per site or across the whole organization. Costs and stock are tracked per site, so each location's numbers stay separate while the organization view sums them up.
Editing and archiving
You can rename a site or house, or archive one you no longer use. Archiving keeps the history intact - nothing is deleted - it just takes the site or house out of the active lists.