Contract Broiler Income & What Does Your Batch Earn?
Pays per kg
Enter chicks placed, mortality, average weight and the growing fee per kg to get your live birds, total kg, growing income and income per bird under integration farming.
Estimate your contract income
Next: track your real mortality and feed-conversion against contract specs — every saved bird and extra kg of live weight lifts the ₹16/bird take directly.
A grower contract pays a service fee per kg of live weight delivered (the integrator owns the birds and feed); mortality erases income, so biosecurity and brooding management are the real profit levers.
Contract broiler income — key facts
- Company supplies
- chicks, feed, medicine
- Grower paid
- fee per kg live weight
- Growing income
- birds × weight × fee/kg
- Live birds
- chicks placed − mortality
- Not based on
- market price
- Bonuses
- low mortality, good FCR
- Grower provides
- shed, labour, utilities
- Privacy
- Runs in your browser; nothing uploaded
Paid for the kilograms you grow
Contract or integration broiler farming flips the usual risk. The company supplies the chicks, feed and medicine and owns the birds the whole way through; you provide the shed, labour and utilities and raise them. At pickup you're paid a growing fee per kilogram of live bird produced, plus performance bonuses for low mortality and good feed conversion. Because you never buy inputs or sell on the open market, your income is shielded from the wild swings in broiler prices — it depends instead on how many birds you place, how many survive, the weight you reach and the fee per kg.
This tool turns those four inputs into your live birds, total kilograms, growing income, total income and income per bird. Use it to project a batch, compare offers from different integrators, and see how lifting weight or cutting mortality changes the result. Pair it with the Poultry Shed ROI, Broiler Profit and FCR tools to net off your running costs and judge the true return.
No market risk
Paid a fee per kg, not the broiler price.
See every lever
Birds, mortality, weight and fee all flex.
Compare integrators
Test different growing fees side by side.
Per-bird clarity
Income per bird to benchmark each batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is contract (integration) broiler farming?+
Under integration, a company (the integrator) supplies the chicks, feed and medicine and owns the birds throughout. You, the grower, provide the shed, labour, water and electricity and raise the birds. At pickup, the company pays you a growing fee per kilogram of live bird produced, plus performance bonuses. You never buy inputs or sell birds on the open market.
How is contract broiler income calculated?+
Growing income = live birds × average weight × growing fee per kg. Live birds = chicks placed − mortality. So if you place 10,000 chicks, lose 4%, and grow them to 2 kg at a fee of ₹8/kg, that's 9,600 birds × 2 kg × ₹8 = ₹153,600 base growing income, before any bonuses. The tool does this for you and adds per-bird figures.
Why doesn't market price affect my income?+
Because the integrator owns the birds and sells them — you're paid only for the service of growing them, at an agreed fee per kg. That's the central feature of contract farming: it shields the grower from the volatile broiler market price. Your earnings rise and fall with how many kilograms you produce and your performance, not with the day's mandi rate.
What drives a grower's income most?+
Four things: the number of birds you place, how many survive (mortality), the average weight at pickup, and the growing fee per kg. Good husbandry that lifts liveable birds and final weight directly raises kilograms produced and therefore income. The tool lets you flex each input so you can see which lever matters most for your batch.
What are performance bonuses?+
Most contracts pay extra on top of the base fee for good results — typically a better feed conversion ratio (FCR), lower mortality, or higher weight gain than a benchmark. These bonuses can lift effective earnings well above the base growing fee, which is why flock management and biosecurity matter so much to a contract grower's bottom line.
How does mortality affect earnings?+
Every bird that dies is one you can't deliver, so mortality cuts your live-bird count and the total kilograms produced — and often costs a bonus too. Lowering mortality through good brooding, ventilation, water hygiene and biosecurity is one of the most direct ways a contract grower can raise income from the same shed.
What does income per bird tell me?+
It's the growing income divided by the live birds delivered, a handy figure for comparing batches and for judging whether your shed capacity and effort are worthwhile. Together with income per square foot of shed it helps you decide whether to expand, and to benchmark your performance against other contract growers.
Does this include my running costs?+
No — this tool shows your gross growing income from the contract. Your net profit is that income minus the costs you bear: labour, electricity, water, litter, repairs and shed depreciation. Use the Poultry Shed ROI tool alongside this to net those off and see your true return per batch and per year.
Is this an exact payment statement?+
It's a close planning estimate. Real contracts vary in how the fee is structured, how bonuses and feed-cost adjustments work, and how mortality limits are treated. Use this to project a batch and to compare offers from integrators, then confirm the exact terms in your contract for the final settlement.