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A few questions

About 10 minutes · saved as you go

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?
Who supplies your day-old chicks?

2. Your prices

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

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Your feed: do you buy it ready, or mix concentrate with your own maize?
Will you sell the spent hens at the end of lay?

3. Your people and devices

Who will work on the farm?Tick all that apply.
Will you mostly follow the farm from somewhere else, such as Harare?
Which devices would use the app?Tick all that apply.

4. Selling your eggs

Who buys your eggs?Tick all that apply.
Do any buyers pay later, on credit?

5. Money

Depreciation of the flock: how should it be worked out?
Did the poultry house or equipment cost money that should count in the payback?Your formula counts chicks, feed, labour and vaccines until laying.
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Do you keep cash and bank money separately?

6. Feed and vaccines

You listed “Layer Marsh 3”. Is there a third laying feed after Layer Marsh 1?
At 5 weeks your vaccination sheet names the disease “(AE)” but lists ILT vaccines. What did your vet say?

7. Anything else

Would you still like a short meeting after this?

Your answers go straight to SLZ Digital and no one else.