Poultry software that puts feed cost against bird sales

Why poultry is easy to get wrong

Selling 200 broilers at 18,000 feels like 3.6 million. What it actually is depends on the chicks, the bags of mash they ate over eight weeks, the drugs, the labour, and how many birds you lost.

Those costs are spread across two months and several suppliers, so they rarely get added up against the sale that they produced. The result is farmers who restock on instinct and can't say which batch paid.

PesaScope records the sales and the spending as they happen, so the arithmetic is already done when the batch is sold.

How a farm records the cycle

1. Record every inputChicks, chick mash, layer mash, vaccines, sawdust, casual labour — each as an expense on the day you pay for it.
2. Record eggs dailyFor layers, eggs are the income that arrives every day. Recording by tray keeps a running picture rather than a monthly guess.
3. Record bird sales as they goWhole batches to a trader or a few birds at the gate — both are sales, cash or Mobile Money, and both count.
4. Read the periodTakings minus feed and everything else, for whatever window you choose. That's the number that decides whether to restock.

Set up for poultry from the start

Pick "Poultry & farm" at sign-up and the usual lines are ready, grouped into Live birds, Eggs and Feeds.

Feeds are listed so you can record them as purchases; birds and eggs are what you sell.

One batch of 200 broilers

Fourteen birds didn't make it, which is normal — but the loss only becomes visible when the sale is measured against what was bought.

Eggs are a different rhythm

Layers pay daily rather than in one lump, so the useful view is a run of weeks: trays sold against feed consumed. A dip in laying shows up as a falling trend well before it shows up in the bank.

The Monday summary email carries that week's takings, costs and profit, which for a layer unit is usually the most honest measure available.

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