Livestock & Apiary Monitoring
Solutions for livestock and apiary monitoring: the brooder under its lamp, the hive on its stand, the coop door at dusk, and the incubator holding 99.5.
On the bench
Govee H5075 at Brooder Height Coming
The greenhouse build, moved to chick height: the same Bluetooth puck and the same listening board, watching the one number that decides a hatch — temperature under the lamp, at the height the chicks actually live. The heat lamp that dies at 2 a.m. becomes an alert instead of a loss.
Load Cells Under the Hive Coming
Weight is the one number a hive cannot hide: the nectar flow shows up as pounds gained by dinner, a swarm as pounds lost by noon, and winter stores as the slow line you watch from the kitchen. Load cells under the hive stand and the HX711 module read it continuously.
Magnetic Reed Door Contact Coming
A two-dollar magnetic contact on the coop door: open or closed, timestamped, forever. The door that did not latch at dusk is the difference between a flock and a fox's night; the record answers "did it close?" from bed.
DS18B20 in the Incubator Coming
Twenty-one days of "is it still holding 99.5?" answered by a sealed probe and a continuous record. The incubator's own dial says what it is doing; the independent probe says what is true, and the half-degree drift that ruins a hatch shows up while there is still time to fix it.