Objective setting for growers and layers

Setting Objectives For Growers and Layers
At every stage in your poultry business, setting objectives is very important. You have just learned about housing the birds so it’s high time to set objectives from one stage to the other. As the growers tend to move into laying periods, the investor must set an objective which the labor force is expected to adhere to. It is a blue print of how the operation of the farm should run so as to have the expected end. This should captured the management of the chicks from the very first day they will be arriving at your farm to the very last they would leave your farm.It is therefore worth stating that without adequate training of workforce, it could be difficult for them to understand the reason why those objectives were set and consequently they don’t adhere to it. Anyway if you are running a small farm and you intend to do the works yourself you are obliged to adhere to the objectives you have to set. This should not leave out you getting training and staying updated about the trends in the poultry world.

A layer objective must cover the following:
Livability on monthly basis
Age at 50% hen day production(that means when only 50% of the birds are laying)
Hen house X performance to 52weeks
Feed consumed per bird per day
Feed consumed per dozen of eggs on a monthly basis
It is one thing to set objective, while it is another thing to achieve the set objectives. It is therefore mandatory to come up with strategies you would use in achieving your set objectives. It’s your business. Every business do have their set objectives, the goal they aimed at and a management practice to achieve those objectives.
For you to know the performance of chick, grower or layer, you can apply this simple equation:
P = f(Q+D+E+H+Mgt)
Where Q = Chicks/breed quality
D = Dietary Level
E = Environment and Housing
H = Health
Mgt = Management practice and personnel level of training
At this point it should be very obvious to you that proper documentation of events on the farm will be very crucial to achieving any set objective as this will reveal what as been done and what as not been done. I leave the management issue to you to decide because it’s your business. But please consider the objectives listed above in your management.
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