Pastured broilers planner — Daniel Cassese
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pastured broilers

A birds-eye view of the whole enterprise — feed, coops, labour, land, and the money. Tweak any number and watch the season respond. Defaults are a worked example, not your farm: adjust everything to your context.

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quick levers the numbers that move the bottom line — fine-tune everything below
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01 · assumptions

Your numbers

everything recalculates as you type · autosaved in this browser
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02 · financials

Where the money goes

profit & loss · excl. your own labour
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cost breakdown · {{ costTotalFmt }} / year
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03 · operations

The season on a calendar

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brooder on pasture slaughter run labour, peak week highlighted
04 · biology

Growth & feed

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live weight · brooder live weight · pasture cumulative feed / bird slaughter run
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05 · labour

The honest hours ledger

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what your time earns
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06 · land

Land base & fertility

how the land base is derived
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what the birds give back
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nitrogen figures are rough estimates from feed protein — soil-test before counting on them.
07 · scenarios

Hold two futures side by side

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Nothing saved yet. Set the plan the way you run things today, save it, then push the numbers — more birds, a second channel, on-farm processing — and compare what each future pays.
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The Broilers OS — plan it, then run it

This planner is the plan. The OS is the season that follows — flock records, batch checklists, feed and loss logs, and plan-vs-actuals that feed your real numbers back into next year's plan. Built in Notion, like everything here.

flock records batch checklists plan vs actuals in notion
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08 · your data

Take it with you

Your plan, on paper
A three-page report — verdict, KPIs and the P&L; the season calendar and growth curve; land, labour, the week-by-week digest, and every assumption. It costs one email, once — then hit the button and choose “save as PDF” in the print dialog. If the charts print without colour, tick “background graphics” in the dialog’s options.
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An indicative planning tool for judging viability — it reflects a worked example, not your context. Adjust every assumption to your farm before trusting the bottom line; no responsibility is accepted for decisions made with it.

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pastured broilers
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01 · profit & loss — excl. your own labour
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02 · where the money goes — {{ costTotalFmt }} / year
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page 1 of 3 · financials
03 · the season on a calendar
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brooder on pasture slaughter run labour · peak week in gold
04 · growth & feed
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live weight · brooder live weight · pasture cumulative feed / bird slaughter run
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page 2 of 3 · operations & biology
05 · {{ labourHead }}
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06 · land base & fertility
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07 · the batch, week by week — every 7th day plus slaughter days
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08 · saved scenarios, side by side
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09 · every assumption in this plan
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an indicative planning tool — a worked model of your assumptions, not advice · figures recalculated {{ reportDate }} · daniel cassese — systems that let farmers grow page 3 of 3 · land, labour & detail