Organising several coloured flocks in the year: cash flow in units, sanitary break
A successful festive flock is good; three flocks a year, placed on the right dates, separated by a real sanitary break, with cash that holds from one sale to the next, is a trade. This lesson answers the questions the entrepreneur asks as soon as the first flock is sold: how many flocks a year in one house? What exactly do we do during the three weeks without chickens? How do we pay for the 184 bags of the next flock before selling a single chicken? And is a second site needed? Everything is counted in chicks, bags, working days and weeks, never in money.
14 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Free-range poultry and festive markets specialisation. It opens to every registered student, from free registration. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
A successful festive flock is good; three flocks a year, placed on the right dates, separated by a real sanitary break, with cash that holds from one sale to the next, is a trade. This lesson answers the questions the entrepreneur asks as soon as the first flock is sold: how many flocks a year in one house? What exactly do we do during the three weeks without chickens? How do we pay for the 184 bags of the next flock before selling a single chicken? And is a second site needed? Everything is counted in chicks, bags, working days and weeks, never in money.
- ✓Calculate the number of flocks possible per year in one house and place each on the festive calendar
- ✓Carry out a complete sanitary break of the house and the range, day by day
- ✓Build the cash flow curve of a flock in units and deduce the reserve to keep at each sale
- ✓Decide, with your figures, whether a second site or a better-run flock is needed
- How many flocks a year in one house
- The sanitary break: the three weeks, day by day
- Placing three flocks on the calendar
- Cash flow in units: the bag curve
- A second site, or a better-run flock?
- The end-of-flock sheet: comparing A, B and C
- Going further
- •Cycle = 12 to 13 weeks of rearing + 1 of cleaning + 2 of break = 15 to 16 weeks; 3 flocks a year; sanitary break of 14 days that cannot be shortened, 3 weeks before Christmas; a single age group per site.
- •Sanitary break: days 1-2 litter out, 3-4 washing, 5 disinfection, 6-7 drying and repairs, 8-19 house empty and closed, 20 new litter, 21 heating; range resting 56 days.
- •Three flocks over the year: A Christmas (arrival 17 September), B spring (14 January, mobile festivity according to the calendar), C August (7 May, 7 August), 6-week break before Christmas; mobile dates and reservations added every January.
- •Bag curve: 184 bags and 1,000 chicks gone out before the first income at week 12; at each sale, reserve the equivalent of the next flock; cockerels and deposits soften the trough.
- •End-of-flock sheet: losses under 5%, bags per 100 kg to bring down, sale in less than 10 days, loyalty above 60%; a second site only after three good flocks in a row.