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Feed is the biggest cost in a batch and the one thing a farm cannot run out of. The Projection tab on the batch dashboard forecasts feed demand day by day, tells you how many days of stock are left, and flags the batches you need to order for.
Feed projection tab

The Projection tab — one row per feed grade, with forecast, stock, days of supply, and a reorder status.

The batch in this screenshot has finished, so its rows read zero. On a running batch the figures are live and the Status column drives your ordering.

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What you need first

The forecast only runs when all three are in place:
1

A bird profile on the batch

The profile supplies the standard daily feed per bird and standard mortality for each day of age. See Product profiles.
2

A batch program with feed rows

The program decides which feed grade applies on which day. See Batch programs.
3

Birds placed

A completed Bird Purchase gives the placement date and the starting bird count.
If the batch has no profile, no program, or no birds placed yet, the Projection tab falls back to the plain per-bird plan — the Days Supply and Status columns show -.

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How the forecast is built

For every remaining day of the flock’s life, GrowthTak CBF estimates one number — how much feed the birds will eat that day — and adds it up per feed grade.
The bird profile gives the standard grams of feed per bird for each day of age. This is the starting point for every day of the forecast.
Today’s bird count is the real one — birds placed, minus birds sold, minus mortality recorded so far. From tomorrow onwards, GrowthTak CBF reduces the count each day using the standard mortality from the profile, so the forecast doesn’t assume every bird survives to lifting.
The batch program decides which grade each day belongs to. Every future day is charged to exactly one feed grade, so Pre-Starter, Starter, Grower, and Finisher each get their own forecast. Past the last program day the batch keeps eating the last grade.
Real farms rarely eat exactly to the book. GrowthTak CBF compares the last 5 day entries for a grade against the standard for those same days and adjusts the forecast up or down by that ratio.The adjustment is capped at ±15%, and it only kicks in once there are at least 3 day entries for that grade — otherwise the plain standard is used. This keeps one mistyped day entry from wrecking the forecast.
Because calibration reads day entries, the forecast gets more accurate the more consistently your supervisors record daily feed consumption.

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Reading the table

One row per feed grade in the batch program. The strip above the table shows the batch’s current Day, live Birds count, the Forecast end day, and the batch’s Lead and Safety settings.
Days Supply is based on the next 7 days of forecast demand, not a whole-batch average. That matters because a bird eats far more on day 30 than on day 5 — a week’s worth of stock at today’s rate would be gone in three days a fortnight later.

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Lead time and safety stock

Two settings on each batch turn the forecast into a reorder decision. Set them when you create or edit the batch. Neither setting changes how much feed is forecast — they decide when you get warned.
These are per batch, not company-wide. A farm three hours away should carry a longer lead time than one next door.

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Status meanings

Worked example — lead time 1 day, safety stock 2 days. At 3 days of supply or less you see Order Soon; at 1 day or less it becomes Order Now.

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Ordering from the projection

Rows that still need feed show a Buy button next to the status. It opens a new Feed Purchase with the batch, the feed grade, the unit, and the demand quantity already filled in — you only add the supplier, rate, and date. The Add Feed Purchase button in the section header does the same for the batch, without pre-filling a grade or quantity.

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The Feed Stock alert

You don’t have to open each batch to find the ones at risk. The Feed Stock tab in the dashboard Alert Center lists every batch-and-grade pair currently sitting at Order Now or Order Soon, across all your active batches.
  • Rows are sorted most urgent first — Order Now before Order Soon, then fewest days of supply.
  • Each row shows the farm, the batch, the feed grade, and the days of supply remaining.
  • Selecting a row opens that batch straight on its Projection tab.
  • Admins can narrow the list with the supervisor filter; supervisors see only their own assigned batches.
This tab computes live each time the dashboard loads, so it may take a moment longer to fill in than the other alert tabs. The figures are never stale.
Check the Feed Stock tab each morning alongside Day Entries. Between them you’ll catch both the farms that stopped reporting and the farms about to run dry.