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Know Your Birds: Poultry Record Keeping 101

As a chicken farmer, you understand housing, disease control, vaccination, and brooding. However, do you understand record keeping? It is a very vital part of your chicken farming venture. 

Put in mind that for you to succeed, income and expenses have to be factored in so that you can know if your business venture is sustainable or not. 
Records usually show the weaknesses as well as strengths of your agribusiness.

As a business owner, you will be able to tell where your business has been and the direction it is heading.

Why Record Keeping is Vital.

• For you to make critical financial decisions as well as create a budget, you will need to analyze your records.
• For you to make feeding decisions especially on the number of feed rations, types of feed rations and the effectiveness of the specific feed ration you will need to look at your records.
• A record will help you identify mistakes that can be avoided in the future.
• You should keep records on the productivity of your chicken such as kilos of meat, reproduction, eggs that will be used when culling your flock.
• When you need to breed your birds, you will need to analyze your records to be able to identify the most productive ones.
• Records will help you study the production performance and check whether it meets the prescribed standards

Methods of Record Keeping.

Hand recording systems.

Advantages of hand recording system.

•    Easy to start.
•    Low initial out of pocket expense.
•    Only requires paper and pencil.

Computer recording system.

Advantages of a computer recording system

•    Easier to create analysis.
•    Accurate and faster.
•    Tax deductible as an expense.

TelelBirds is an online Poultry Records Management System. Please register here and start tracking the progress of your poultry farm.

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