Field exercise: follow a chicken from catching to customer and note every loss
Until now, sale losses were percentages in a course. This exercise makes them appear on your own farm, with your scale and your notebook: twenty tagged chickens, weighed before the fast, at catching, on arrival, after slaughter, after the cold and up to the customer, and at each step the weight lost, the injured, the dead, the downgraded, in kilos and in percent. In one flock departure, you will know where your kilos disappear, and the sheet you have filled in will become your reference for all the following flocks.
13 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 12 — From farm to customer: slaughter, eggs, sales. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 11 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓Prepare the equipment and choose a representative, identifiable sample of 20 chickens
- ✓Weigh and count at the six steps of the departure, and fill in the tracking sheet without estimating anything
- ✓Calculate the loss of each step in kilos and in percent, and extrapolate it to the whole flock
- ✓Read the result with the reading grid and decide the correction to make at the next departure