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Practical guides for running a poultry farm
Records, feed, flock health and money, written for layer and broiler farmers who want clear numbers without the paperwork.
Featured · Layer farmingHow to read your laying rate, and act on it earlyHen-day production is the one number that tells you most about a layer flock. Here is how to work it out, what moves it, and the mistakes that make it mislead you.Ian Lagat · · 2 min readRead article →Latest articles
FeedFeed per egg: what it really costs you to make one eggTurn the bags you issue into a cost per egg you can compare month to month, and find out where feed money leaks before it shows in your profit.Ian Lagat · · 3 min read
Record keepingWhy "no deaths today" is a record worth keepingA blank is not a zero. How to record a clean day so your mortality figures stay honest, and why the days nothing happened matter as much as the bad ones.Ian Lagat · · 2 min read
Broiler farmingWeighing broilers: how many birds, how oftenSample sizes, weekly timing and reading uniformity, so you know how a flock is growing without a scale in every pen.Ian Lagat · · 2 min read
Money & salesCollected vs sold: finding the eggs that go missingA simple monthly check that matches what your flocks laid with what you sold, so lost and unrecorded eggs show up before they eat your margin.Ian Lagat · · 2 min read
Record keepingMoving your farm records off paper without losing a weekWhat to bring across from the notebook, what to start fresh, and how to switch over without a gap in your records.Ian Lagat · · 2 min readFree for 30 days
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