An egg drop is a production event with a root cause. It does not occur spontaneously. When laying rate falls 10% or more below the expected trajectory, or when a…
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The dry season arrives on schedule. Every year. In northern Cameroon, Nigeria, and the Sahel zone, the harmattan brings temperatures above 35°C from November through February. In southern Cameroon and…
A consumer picking up two trays of eggs at a market stall in Douala, Yaoundé, or Lagos does not read the feed formulation sheet. She cracks an egg. If the…
Feed accounts for 65–75% of the total variable cost of producing an egg. In a commercial layer operation producing 1 million eggs per year, a difference of 0.1 in feed…
Water is the first nutrient a layer hen consumes every morning and the last she consumes before the lights go out. It is the medium through which every metabolic reaction…
A commercial layer hen carries the genetic potential for 320–330 eggs in a 72-week laying cycle. Most flocks produce 270–290. The gap between genetic potential and actual production has many…
At Otto’s Farms, we track shell quality as a revenue metric, not a welfare indicator. A cracked shell is not just a compromised egg; it is a lost sale, a…
There is a precise moment in pullet production when the nutritional program must change — not gradually, not eventually, but on a defined timeline tied to the bird’s reproductive biology.…
In the world of high-density egg production, we often focus exclusively on the “inputs” (feed) and “outputs” (eggs). However, as a software engineer, I know that the “environment” in which…
In a large-scale poultry operation, labor and feed represent the two highest operating expenses. As a CEO, I view feeding and watering systems as the “data pipelines” of the farm.…