Pastured layers planner — Daniel Cassese
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pastured layers

The whole egg enterprise in one view — hens, feed, land, labour, and the money, with the eggmobile's payback on top. Tweak any number and watch the year 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 · per year · excl. your own labour
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cost breakdown · {{ costTotalFmt }} / year
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03 · production

The laying year

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flock starts laying in
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{{ advancedLabel }} the same math the chart uses — one row per month of the flock's life
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04 · capital

When the eggmobile pays for itself

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profit basis:
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cumulative cash year end · above water year end · underwater break-even
cumulative cash from the day you build — year 0 is the startup outlay, each dot a year end
what the startup money buys
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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 rotation is derived
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what the hens 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'd run things today, save it, then push the numbers — more hens, a second eggmobile, a better egg price — and compare what each future pays.
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The Pastured Layers OS — plan it, then run it

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

flock records egg & feed logs 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 laying year and the payback curve; land, labour and every assumption. It costs one email, once — the PDF is built from your numbers exactly as they stand and lands in your inbox a minute later.
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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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01 · profit & loss — per year, 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 laying year
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04 · when the eggmobile pays for itself
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cumulative cash year end · above water year end · underwater break-even
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page 2 of 3 · production & capital
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06 · land base & fertility
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07 · saved scenarios, side by side
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08 · 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