Livestock Economics, Marketing and Business Management

TECHNO-ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS

Layer project for 1,00,000 birds Technical Assumptions
1	No. of birds in lay	100,000
2	Rearing period (weeks)	72
	Brooding cum growing period (weeks)	20
	Laying period (weeks)	52
3	No. of batches	3
4	Space requirement per bird (s.ft.)
	Brooder cum grower period	1
	Layer period	0.8
5	Cost of construction (Rs./s.ft.)
	Brooder cum grower shed	65
	Layer shed	70
6	Store room (s.ft.)	100
7	Cost of construction of store room (Rs./s.ft)	90
	Water facility (Rs)	10000
8	Equipment cost (Rs./bird)
	Brooder cum grower house	7
	Layer house - cages	35
9	Mortality (%)
	Brooding cum growing stage	6
	Laying stage	7
10	Cost of DOCs (Rs./chick)	14.1
11	Supply of free chicks (%)	3
12	Extra chicks purchased (%)	3
13	Feed requirement (Kg./bird)
	Brooding cum growing stage	7
	Laying stage	38
14	Feed cost (Rs./kg.)
	Chick/grower mash	7
	Layer mash	6.7
15	Labour cost	0
16	Over heads cost (Cost of litter, electricity, medicines, vaccine, insurance, etc.)
	Brooding cum growing stage (Rs./bird)	5.5
	Laying stage (Rs./bird)	7
17	Egg production	295
18	Egg price (Rs./egg)	1.3
19	Average body wt. Of culled birds (Kg.)	1.5
20	Sale price of culled bird (Rs./bird)	38
21	Income from manure (Rs./bird)
	Brooding cum growing stage	1.15
	Laying stage	5.85
22	No. Of gunny bags per ton of feed	13.3
23	Income from gunny bags (Rs./bag)	6
24	Depreciation on sheds (%)	5
25	Depreciation on equipment (%)	10
26	Margin money (%)	25
27	Interest rate (%)	15
28	Repayment period (years)	8
29	Grace period (years)	1
30	Construction period (months)	3
31	Rest period (weeks)
	Brooder cum grower house (weeks)	4
	Layer house (weeks)	4