Egg cost and profit calculator
Enter your birds, laying rate, egg price, feed per bird and feed price per quintal. The calculator shows eggs per day, monthly income, feed cost, profit, the cost of one egg and the break-even price — the lowest price you can sell an egg at without losing money.
Your month
These figures are a guide, not advice. Feed, prices and diseases differ from farm to farm: check with your veterinarian and use your own records.
How the calculation works
Eggs a day = birds × laying rate. Feed a month = birds × grams a day × 30 days. Feed cost = feed in quintals × price per quintal. Cost of one egg = all costs ÷ eggs in the month. If you sell below that price, every egg loses money.
What the numbers usually look like
Commercial brown layers at their best lay 85–95 eggs a day per 100 birds and eat about 110–120 g of feed a day. Feed is usually two-thirds or more of all costs, so the feed price and feed per bird decide most of the cost of an egg.
Questions and answers
- How do I calculate the cost of one egg?
- Add all costs for a month (feed, labour, rent, power, vaccines, transport) and divide by the eggs collected that month. For example, 60,000 birr of costs for 70,000 eggs is about 0.86 birr an egg.
- What is the break-even egg price?
- The lowest price you can sell one egg at and still cover every cost. It equals your cost of one egg; sell above it to make a profit.
- How much profit do 1,000 layers make?
- It depends on laying rate, egg price and feed price. Put your own numbers in the calculator; with 1,000 birds, a few cents of difference in cost per egg changes the monthly profit by thousands of birr.
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