Vamo's Farm Fresh Eggs — A few questions

Thank you for looking at the calculator and the farm app. Your answers let us put your real farm into both.

Where a box already has a number, that is what the demos assumed — only change it if yours is different. Skip anything you are not sure of; we can cover it later.

You can stop and come back: your answers stay on this phone or computer until you press Send my answers at the bottom.

1. Where you are now

Have you bought the birds yet?

Not yet Ordered Already on the farm

When did they, or when will they, arrive?

Who supplies your day-old chicks?

Zimavian Another hatchery

If another, which one?

2. Your prices

These drive the payback and the profit at the end of laying.

Day-old chick, per bird

$

Feed, per 50kg bag

$

Vaccines and de-worming, per bird to point of lay

$

Labour, per month

$

Other running costs, per monthelectricity, water, transport, repairs

$

Eggs, per tray of 30

$

Laying rate you expect at peak

%

Spent hen, per bird at end of lay

$

Your feed: do you buy it ready, or mix concentrate with your own maize?

Buy complete feed Mix concentrate with our own maize Both, depending on the phase

Will you sell the spent hens at the end of lay?

Yes No Not sure yet

3. Your people and devices

Who will work on the farm?Tick all that apply.

A farm manager or supervisor Farm workers A bookkeeper Just me for now

How many workers?

Who should record the eggs, feed and any deaths each day?

Will you mostly follow the farm from somewhere else, such as Harare?

Yes No, I will be on the farm

Which devices would use the app?Tick all that apply.

Phones Laptops or desktop computers Tablets

How many devices in total?

4. Selling your eggs

Who buys your eggs?Tick all that apply.

Walk-in customers Shops Supermarkets Wholesalers

Anyone else?

Do any buyers pay later, on credit?

Yes No, all pay on the day Not sure yet

5. Money

Depreciation of the flock: how should it be worked out?

The whole investment, spread over the laying months The investment minus what the spent hens sell for, spread over the laying months Another way Let us discuss it

If another way, how?

Did the poultry house or equipment cost money that should count in the payback?Your formula counts chicks, feed, labour and vaccines until laying.

Yes, count it No, keep it out Not sure

Roughly how much?

$

Do you keep cash and bank money separately?

Yes No

Your cash and banking sheetAttach it if it is ready — a photo, Excel or PDF, up to 8MB. Or send it later.

6. Feed and vaccines

You listed “Layer Marsh 3”. Is there a third laying feed after Layer Marsh 1?

No — after Layer Marsh 1 we use Phase 2, as on the leaflet Yes, there is another feed

If yes, what is it called?

At 5 weeks your vaccination sheet names the disease “(AE)” but lists ILT vaccines. What did your vet say?

ILT AE Not asked yet

7. Anything else

Is there anything the app should do that we have not shown?

Would you still like a short meeting after this?

Yes, in person Yes, an online call No need for now

Your name