Contract Broiler Income & What Does Your Batch Earn?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.