Tracking Broiler Flock Performance

The published values for broiler flock efficiency that many producers follow to determine their costs of production are those shared by commercial production guides, which raise broiler chickens in climate controlled facilities with water and feed needs fine-tuned. In a pasture-raised scenario, the variable conditions in weather, temperature, predation, breed, and feed variation mean that the efficiency is going to vary from flock-to-flock. Instead of relying on book values for performance, farms can use this fact sheet to evaluate their flocks' efficiency to help fine-tune their production practices to get the most from their flocks.