Hi, I have a quick question for people; would they be interested in a meat record software? I am making one, but want to make sure it is met with good feedback. Right now, I have: *Survival Rates *Total Weights *Live Weight Vs. Dead Weight *Normal records (# chicks purchased, price) *Expense Log (For seeing how much money is spent, and your bottom line) *Feed Section (So you can analyze the total amount of feed, and the nutrients.) *Managemet (Brooder guard, heat source, light per day) *Health Expense Record (Medications, electrolytes) *Broiler calculations (Average Daily Gain, Feed Eficiency) *Project Report (Your bottomline, prices, chick cost, feed costs, that sort of thing) *Point of Sale System (Potential customers, real customers, price sold, reciept printer) *Quality assurance statement printing *And more as I think of it. Does anyone have any ideas, and a price I should ask? I'm very interested.
I don't raise meat birds. You may want to add on the title that it would be a computer program for tracking. You may be better served also if that was just one part of the program. If you made it so that it was a complete program for chickens, eggs laid, age they started laying, first moult, length of moult...etc. Good luck!
If anyone actually really uses your program diligently, there will be a run on Wally-Mart. I kept my real cost numbers when I used to hatch and raise my own RIR, NH, and BR and their crosses... no more. Three years ago, I switched to the Cornish X and I cut my costs to about half per freezer camp attendee. This past year the feed costs jumped so high that now I am hard pressed to justify raising my own when I can buy the already processed bird for $0.67 to $0.98 a pound at our local grocery stores. But time will tell in this economy. As for taste... my wife is a great chef. She can make shoe leather taste like the finest steak at a snooty restaurant.
Quote:I've already created one of these; I was just seeing if it would work seperately, or if I should combine.
This would be something that I basically just plug my numbers into and it would calculate it then? Great idea- I'd be interested for sure. I have no idea on a price. Right now I just made a spreadsheet where I write in any expense, dead bird, etc. That would be a huge upgrade.
I would combine with the egg-layer software, as someone raising meat birds is likely to also have egg-layers. Makes more sense to keep everything conveniently in one place. As for price, well, that depends on how good the software is! And how many features it has. If I wasn't already planning on writing my own record program, I'd be very interested, lol. Good luck!
Can't get store chickens here for anywhere near $1 a lb. I think the last one I bought was $1.29 a lb. When we butchered ours after the fair we came out to about $5 a dressed bird and the lightest one was 6.25lbs. I didn't try to figure it out per lb just took the total spent and divided it by 7 birds. Quote:
Personally, I wouldn't use a meat record software... I keep track of how much feed I use, how much bedding, any other costs, etc. plus how much I got for the whole harvest. Not much calculation, and I definitely wouldn't use software to track it. Rachel Tx
I would use it.. i am starting ym first meat birds this spring and will have quail, turkey and rabbbits as well.. I could save a lot of time wiht this...
