Poultry & Eggs
Poultry & Eggs: For Farmers
What Poultry & Eggs changes for the person actually doing the work.
For the person running the business, the test of any farm software is whether it removes work or adds it. Poultry combines the tightest production tolerances in agriculture with the heaviest routine assurance burden and the most sudden regulatory interventions. This module manages broiler and layer flocks, environmental control, welfare and assurance records, and the avian influenza housing orders that can change the production system overnight.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Broiler grower
Contract growing
Needs environmental deviations caught within the hour, not the day.
- Prepare and disinfect the house
- Place the flock and record
- Monitor environment and intake continuously
- Record mortality and welfare outcomes
Free-range egg producer
32,000 birds
Needs housing order derogation status and labelling implications tracked.
- Place the flock and record
- Monitor environment and intake continuously
- Record mortality and welfare outcomes
- Manage housing orders and biosecurity
Assurance auditor
Scheme audit
Needs continuous records rather than a reconstructed file.
- Monitor environment and intake continuously
- Record mortality and welfare outcomes
- Manage housing orders and biosecurity
- Grade and despatch or thin and deplete
End to end
How Poultry & Eggs runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Prepare and disinfect the house
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Place the flock and record
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Monitor environment and intake continuously
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Record mortality and welfare outcomes
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Manage housing orders and biosecurity
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Grade and despatch or thin and deplete
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Clean out and manage litter
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Assemble the assurance and performance record
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Capabilities
What Poultry & Eggs does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Broiler crop management with placement, growth curve and depletion
- Layer flock management with lay percentage, egg weight and persistency
- Environmental control monitoring — temperature, humidity, ammonia, CO2 and lighting
Operate and monitor
- Feed and water intake monitoring with deviation alerting
- Mortality recording with daily curve and cause analysis
- Avian influenza housing order compliance and free-range derogation tracking
Comply and evidence
- Biosecurity protocol with audit-ready evidence
- Welfare outcome assessment including pododermatitis and hock burn scoring
- Egg grading, packing and traceability to flock and date
Analyse and improve
- Assurance scheme evidence assembly for the relevant standard
- Catching, thinning and depletion planning
- Litter management, disposal and nutrient value recording
Traceability
The chain behind one batch
Livestock traceability is statutory, the reporting window is short, and it runs through a different national system in each nation. The record is assembled as the animal moves rather than reconstructed at audit.
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Born on holding
- Who
- Holding of birth
- Evidence
- Ear tag applied and registered
- Held in
- British Cattle Movement Service
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Health intervention
- Who
- Veterinary practice
- Evidence
- Medicine record with withdrawal period
- Held in
- Medicine book
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Moved
- Who
- Haulier
- Evidence
- Statutory movement report within the reporting window
- Held in
- British Cattle Movement Service
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Received
- Who
- Destination holding
- Evidence
- Arrival recorded, standstill applied
- Held in
- Holding register
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Slaughtered
- Who
- Approved abattoir
- Evidence
- Kill sheet, classification and food chain information
- Held in
- FSA
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Sold
- Who
- Buyer
- Evidence
- Batch linked to the carcase and the holding of origin
- Held in
- Platform record
Take the record with you
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Poultry & Eggs
The problem: Needs environmental deviations caught within the hour, not the day.
What they do
- Prepare and disinfect the house
- Place the flock and record
- Monitor environment and intake continuously
- Record mortality and welfare outcomes
What changes
- European Production Efficiency Factor
- Feed conversion ratio
- Mortality percentage
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01European Production Efficiency Factor
- 02Feed conversion ratio
- 03Mortality percentage
- 04Lay percentage
- 05Seconds and rejects rate
- 06Welfare outcome scores
Free assessment
Find out where you stand in about ten minutes
A structured assessment producing a scored report with a prioritised list of what to fix first, and what it is worth fixing.