From the Igbo word onye nche: the watchman who never sleeps.
NCHE
Hears trouble in your poultry house before you can see it.
Nche watches the heat, air, water, light and sound of every house, day and night, and tells the right person while there’s still time to act. Fewer birds lost, healthier flocks, and a record that proves how well your farm is run.
One box. Five senses. Built for a poultry house.
Dust, ammonia, wash-downs and power cuts ruin ordinary electronics. Nche is sealed, drains downwards and runs on a battery you can swap in seconds, so it keeps watching when everything else stops.
Inside: heat, humidity, ammonia, light and a microphone that listens to your flock. Add the Nche water unit to the drinker line for a sixth sense.
Drag the device to turn it, or open it with the buttons below to see every part.
Two houses. Eight Nche units. Nothing missed.
House A holds broilers on deep litter. House B holds layers in cages. Nche works in both, and in any poultry house, anywhere.
Follow the farm manager on the morning round and see what Nche catches.
It lives where your birds live.
A thermometer by the door doesn’t tell you what your birds feel. Nche stands at bird height, breathes the same air as the flock and checks it every minute of the day and night, because broilers that grow fast also suffer fast.
One hot afternoon can wipe out a week’s profit.
Heavy broilers struggle once a house passes about 30 °C. They stop eating, stop growing, and on a bad afternoon start dying within hours. Nche warns you when the house is warming too fast, not after it’s already too hot.
Wet litter is where flocks quietly go wrong.
Damp air soaks the litter, wet litter feeds ammonia and disease, and humid heat is harder for birds to shed. Nche tells you when the air is turning damp, so you ventilate before the litter turns.
You stop smelling ammonia. Your birds don’t.
Ammonia burns birds’ eyes and lungs and slows their growth. People stop noticing it after a few minutes in the house, long before it’s safe. Nche never stops noticing, and tells you when to open up.
The first sign of trouble is a quieter drinker line.
Birds drink about twice what they eat. When water use drops, something is wrong: a blocked line, a failed pump or a flock getting sick.
The Nche water unit sits on the drinker line with its own power, counts every drink and sends the reading to the nearest Nche box, so you hear about it the same day.
Big houses. One connection.
One Nche unit covers about 500 to 1,000 birds, so a large house gets several. They pass readings to each other down the house, and the unit by the door sends everything online.
You only need internet in one corner of the farm.
Every row, every tier, heard.
In layer houses, each Nche unit hangs from the cage frame over the aisle, where it breathes the same air and hears every row on both sides. House B joins the same network as House A, so the whole farm reports as one.
Lost light means lost eggs.
Layers need a steady day length, around 16 hours, to keep producing. A dead bulb or a slipped timer quietly costs you eggs for weeks. Nche checks the lighting programme ran, every day.
A healthy flock has a sound.
Nche learns it for each house, so it notices when the hens go quiet, panic in the night because something got in, or start to cough.
Hears sickness before you can see it.
Respiratory disease often starts as a sound: a cough, a rattle, a sneeze in the dark. Nche’s AI knows what your healthy flock sounds like and flags the change the night it starts, often before birds look sick. It weighs sound together with water, heat and ammonia, so one odd reading doesn’t wake you for nothing.
The farm manager’s phone buzzes: row 3, cage 14. The sick hens are separated, and the vet is called, before the rest of the house catches it.
Screening support — not a substitute for a veterinarian.
The right message, to the right person.
- Reads every senseAll five, every few minutes, day and night, plus water from the add-on unit.
- Seals each reading In the pilot buildSigned inside the device, so nobody can edit it later.
- Passes it down the houseUnit to unit, to the one by the door, which sends it online.
- AI checks it against normalNormal for this house, this flock, this time of day.
- Tells the people who need to knowA plain message to the farm manager. A sealed record for the bank or insurer.
Ammonia has been climbing since 2 AM. Now 27 ppm. Open the side curtains before feeding.
32 °C and warming faster than yesterday. Turn on the fans and check the drinkers.
Breathing sounds changed overnight in row 3, near cage 14. Check those hens at first light.
Grid off. Nche on.
When power goes, the fans stop and the house heats up fast. Every Nche unit runs on its own battery pack, keeps reading, and tells you the moment the power is out, so the generator goes on in minutes, not hours.
Every farm you back, on one screen.
Lending to and insuring poultry farms is hard when all you have is the farmer’s word. Nche gives you sealed, time-stamped records of how each farm is really run, and early warning when one is heading for trouble. For insurers · For lenders
- Price risk on real farm conditions
- Check claims against the record
- Spot farms that need support before they default
- Show impact across a whole programme
How Nche keeps every record honest.
A farm record only helps a bank or an insurer if nobody could have changed it. This is how Nche is being built so they don’t have to take anyone’s word for it.
How a sealed record works
In the pilot build7F3A·C21Anyone with the box’s public key can run this check (a bank, an insurer or an auditor) without having to trust Nche.
Sealed at the source
Every reading is signed inside a secure chip in the box. The signing key is made in the chip and can’t be copied out, not even by Nche.
Locked on the way
Readings travel to Nche over an encrypted connection, so nobody in between can read or change them.
Anyone can check
A lender or insurer can check any record against the device’s public key, without relying on Nche to vouch for it.
Knows if it’s tampered with
The box records if it’s opened, unbolted, knocked or moved, and those records are sealed just like a reading.
Your farm’s data stays yours
Handled under Nigeria’s Data Protection Act 2023. Nche never sells farm data, and a bank or insurer sees a farm’s records only if the farmer agrees. Read the privacy notice.
Microchip’s published results for the ATECC608C, the secure chip Nche plans to use. They describe the chip, not Nche as a whole.
Fewer surprises. Heavier birds. More eggs.
Most losses on a poultry farm start small and grow overnight. Nche catches them while they're still small.
Built and tested on a working farm.
One watchman. Everyone who depends on the flock.
The farmer, the vet who looks after the birds, and the insurer and bank who back the farm all need to know the same thing: is this flock all right? Pick the page written for you.
Stop finding out in the morning.
Alerts on your phone the moment heat, air, water or the sound of your birds changes. Pilots open.
For farms Vets · free app, coming soonScreen a flock in minutes.
Record the house, photograph the droppings, and send your client a clean report before you leave.
For vets InsurersSee the risk in every farm you cover.
Underwrite on real conditions, prevent losses, and check claims against a record that can’t be edited.
For insurers Banks and microfinanceKnow how the farms you fund are doing.
Early warning on loan risk, and a track record that helps good farmers borrow.
For lenders Partners · coming soonAdd poultry health AI to your product.
A sound clip or a photo in, a screening result your users understand out.
For partnersWe come to you.
We work with larger farms and with the organisations behind them. Every installation starts with a visit.
- We visit your farmAnd assess each house: layout, flock size, power, network.
- We size the systemAbout one Nche unit for every 500 to 1,000 birds.
- We install and testAlerts reach the farm manager's phone from day one.
- We review 30 days togetherWhat it caught, what changed, what's next.
Know every house.
Every hour.
Farm owners, lenders, insurers and programme teams: message us to book a pilot.
Email ushello@nche.app