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GrowthTak CBF uses a small set of objects and a handful of poultry-industry terms. Understanding these makes the rest of the guide much easier to follow.

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Core objects

A single flock of birds raised at one farm during one growing cycle. The batch is the centre of GrowthTak CBF — daily entries, transactions, medicines, lifting, and GC all attach to a batch. A batch is Active while the flock is growing and Closed after the birds are sold and the farmer is paid.
The person who grows the birds on their farm. A farmer can have many batches over time, but only one active batch at a time. Farmers are one type of Contact.
Anyone you do business with. Farmers grow birds, Suppliers sell you chicks/feed/medicine, and Traders (customers) buy the grown birds.
Anything bought, sold, fed, or transferred — grouped into three system types: Bird (chicks), Feed, and Medicine. Each product has a base unit and prices.
A day-by-day standard growth curve for a breed — expected body weight, feed per bird, mortality %, and FCR at each age. Live batch performance is compared against this profile.
A reusable schedule of which feed and medicine to give on which day of the flock’s life, plus a feed projection method. It drives feed projection and the auto-detected feed type in daily entries.
The rule set that decides how much a farmer is paid for a batch — base rate, incentives, penalties, costs, and tax. See GC schemes.

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Poultry & contract terms

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How the numbers connect

Understanding how these flow together helps make sense of the reports:
  • Birds placed − mortality − birds sold = remaining birds.
  • FCR = feed consumed (kg) ÷ live weight produced (kg). GrowthTak CBF shows your actual FCR next to the standard FCR from the bird profile.
  • GC payment is driven by how your actual FCR, mortality, and cost compare to the scheme’s standards — better performance earns incentives, worse performance can incur penalties.
Two FCR figures appear in GrowthTak CBF. Running FCR (in the live reports) reconciles against feeder leftover as the batch progresses. Final FCR (used for GC at closing) is based on total recorded consumption. They can differ slightly — this is expected.