Poultry Farming: Feed, Flock and Cost Per Bird

Feed is the overwhelming cost in poultry, and it is consumed continuously by a flock whose numbers change. That combination makes cost per bird or per tray genuinely hard to hold without records.

What the app is built around

The batch. Birds in, feed consumed, mortality, production and sales — all tracked against a specific flock rather than the farm as a whole.

What it helps you see

• Feed consumed against output, which is the core efficiency measure
• Mortality, recorded as it happens rather than discovered at the end
• Cost per bird or per tray, once feed, chicks, medication and labour are counted
• Batch against batch, so a bad cycle is visible early
• Sales tied back to the batch that produced them

Where it changes a decision

Whether a feed change worked. Switching supplier or formulation is a common decision made on impression. With feed and output recorded per batch, the comparison is real — and sometimes the cheaper feed turns out to cost more per tray.

What it is not

It is not a veterinary system. It records what happened so you can see a problem developing.

Price and fit

Poultry Farming is $15 a month on Knomart, where the monthly total is the sum of the apps installed.

It suits a farm running more than one batch, or anyone whose feed bill has grown without a matching rise in output.

Farms selling on credit to traders often add Credit Book at $4 a month, so what is owed is recorded against the batch that produced it. On Knomart the monthly total is simply the apps you have installed — here, $19.