Farm Managers are the real heroes in Poultry Business!

A Farm Supervisor Special: -

The foot soldier of the poultry business. The farm manager not only manages the ground zero but also works as a perfect reporting system for the business.

What if we hand over technology to this resource? Let’s dive into the sea of advantages any poultry business would get through this duo.

1)     Management of Mortality Rate

In the poultry business, the health of birds is given the utmost importance. Having said that, the mortality rate is considered a vital indicator. In such cases, the farm manager’s pivotal responsibility is to keep an eye on symptoms and note down the rare and common mortality reasons such as diseases and infections found in the birds.

You can only imagine the number of hours required to keep a track record of the mortality rate of thousands of birds bucketed in multiple sheds. On the other hand, to maintain the strict schedule of vaccines, arranging the medicines and vets in some instances can be an exhaustive procedure.

How Technology helps our Farm Managers?

-         Poultry ERP platforms like PoultryOS have prepopulated master data. In this case, while tracking and recording the mortality, the system is equipped with a list of mortality reasons already. The Farm Manager will select the reason and maintain a proper track of his flock performance in terms of MR. On the other hand, the mobile application sends alerts and notifications to its user about vaccines and medicines and in some cases, vet doctors are alerted too on their mobile phones. The simple system of timely alerts can literally reduce the manager’s efforts and mortality rate as well.

2)     Feed Consumption Ratio

This is another aspect of the business to achieve the idle weight of the bird when it reaches its maturity. Once the idle weight is achieved, the poultry business gets assured returns at a substantial rate from the market. However, to achieve this weight, the farm manager/supervisor must feed the birds perfectly balanced food. These feeds are either homegrown which means manufactured in-house by the poultry business or it is bought from the feed manufacturers. The idle FCR is 1.5 and feed manufacturers usually claim the same rate. The farm manager’s job is to feed the bird in idle quantity with the best mixture of nutrition.

How Technology Helps in maintaining ideal FCR?

-         Just as mortality reasons, advanced poultry technology solutions like PoultryOS have the list of feeds breed-wise. In addition, in-stock is also managed in the mobile application itself so that manager instantly knows how much feed is consumed and left in the stock. In addition, alerts and notifications can be customized and set as per the requirement so that supervisors stay alert whenever required.

3)     Batch Performance

-         Flock performance is the overall performance of the flock of birds where FCR, BPI, and Mortality rate play the key role. In addition, other overhead expenses such as water, electricity, feed, and transport, super’s salary are calculated too.

How does Technology help in uplifting overall flock performance?

-         To manage everything and maintain the threshold, a supervisor just needs to get well versed with the technology. The pocket-friendly technology helps these foot soldiers in many ways to achieve the desired performance. PoultryOS produces batch-wise P&L. Other reports such as egg collection, mortality rate, FCR, and balance sheet on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis. He can summarize the batch and present it in a proper report format. Moreover, he can share it on WhatsApp too. Nevertheless, if language is the barricade, the farm manager can get the entire system in the language he knows.

Conclusion

Farm Managers are real heroes of the poultry business. They do not just farm the chickens, but they also farm the data in their own ways. However, it’s a poultry business owner’s responsibility to gift him a technology that is pocket friendly, multi-lingual and that can still be used if the internet connection is absent.  All in all, gift him PoultryOS and see the results we both deliver.