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GrowTak 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 GrowTak — 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. It drives feed projections 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

TermMeaning
Placement / Placement dateThe day chicks are placed on the farm — day 0 of the batch.
MortalityBirds that die or are removed. Tracked daily, as a count and a percentage of birds placed.
LivabilityThe opposite of mortality — the percentage of placed birds still alive.
FCR (Feed Conversion Ratio)Kilograms of feed eaten per kilogram of live bird weight. Lower is better. A core efficiency measure.
CFCRCumulative FCR — FCR measured across the whole batch to date.
Body weightAverage live weight of a bird, sampled by weighing a group of birds.
LiftingCatching and taking away the grown birds for sale at the end of the cycle.
Feeder leftoverFeed still left in the feeders, recorded so feed consumption (and therefore FCR) can be reconciled to what was actually eaten.
GC (Grower Contract)The amount the company pays a farmer for raising the batch, calculated from performance.
Lifting intentA planned lift — birds are weighed/sampled first, then the intent is converted into an actual Bird Sale.
DC numberDelivery Challan number — the dispatch document reference for a transaction.
Flock codeThe hatchery’s batch/flock identifier for the chicks supplied.

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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). GrowTak 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 GrowTak. 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.