Key takeaways
- One batch ID ties stock, mortality, feed, and harvest together.
- Log every mortality on the day it happens.
- Feed cost comes from sacks taken, not from memory.
- Cost per kilo is the number to price against.
Backyard raisers usually know the selling price and rarely know the cost. Chicks arrive, sacks are opened, birds die quietly over eight weeks, and at harvest the one figure that matters is a guess. ManokDesk PH keeps the batch as the unit: heads started, mortality, feed sacks, and kilos harvested all point at one batch ID. What comes out is the cost of a kilo you actually produced, which is the floor under every price you agree to.
Open a batch when the stock arrives
A batch records the house, the livestock type, the breed, the heads started, and the stock cost paid for the chicks or piglets. Everything logged afterwards points back at that batch ID.
Because the stock cost sits on the batch, it flows into total cost without being remembered or re-entered at harvest time.
Log mortality as it happens
Every dead head is logged with a date, a cause, and the age in days. Heads remaining is heads started minus the total logged, so the pen count is current instead of estimated.
Causes grouped over several batches show whether losses come from weak day-old stock, from heat, or from something a vet should look at.
Cost the feed by the sack
A feed-use row records the batch, the feed, and the sacks taken. Price per sack is pulled from the feed list, so feed cost accumulates on the batch without a calculator.
Total cost is stock cost plus feed cost. It is the honest floor under any price a trader offers at the gate.
Harvest, then read cost per kilo
Harvests record heads sold, kilos, and the price per kilo, with buyer payments and a balance per harvest. Kilos harvested rolls up to the batch.
Cost per kilo is total cost divided by kilos harvested, and it stays blank until the first harvest so a growing batch never shows a misleading figure.
Review exceptions every week
Resolve duplicate IDs, missing links, overdue balances, negative amounts, and open operational items in CHECKS before using the dashboard for decisions.
ManokDesk PH Private Google Sheets Web App is designed for use with a Google account, Google Sheets, and Apps Script, using owner-only deployment by default.
No feed formulation or ration balancing, veterinary diagnosis or medication scheduling, biosecurity or meat-inspection certification, integrator contract-growing settlement, payroll or tax computation, and no official receipts.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work for pigs as well as chickens?
Yes. A batch is a group of heads in one house or pen, so broilers, layers, native chickens, and fattening pigs are recorded the same way.
Why is cost per kilo blank on my new batch?
Nothing has been harvested yet. The figure appears with the first harvest row and settles once the batch is fully sold.
Can it give me a feed conversion ratio?
Not directly. It tracks sacks used and kilos harvested, and you can compare those two figures yourself.
Does this replace official records?
No. No feed formulation or ration balancing, veterinary diagnosis or medication scheduling, biosecurity or meat-inspection certification, integrator contract-growing settlement, payroll or tax computation, and no official receipts.
