Stocks and purchasing: feed, litter, cleaning products, spare parts
A house of 2,000 five-week-old broilers eats more than six bags a day. The day the store is empty, there is no catching up: the chickens lose weight, fight when feeding resumes, and the flock takes a delay still measurable at sale. The same logic applies to the litter that does not arrive the day before the chicks, to the brooder part missing on the cold night, to the disinfectant ordered on the day of the downtime. This lesson teaches you to keep a stock with a sheet, to calculate a reorder point, to buy with method and to receive what you have paid for, for the four families of products of a farm.
13 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 13 — Organising the farm: staff, procedures, planning. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 12 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓Keep a stock sheet per product and per house, and do the monthly inventory
- ✓Calculate the feed reorder point for several houses of different ages, with the season's delivery lead time
- ✓Plan the litter, cleaning products and spare parts of a flock before it arrives
- ✓Buy in five steps (need, order, reception, invoice, payment) and check the feed reception