Poultry Bid Lifecycle Cost Calculator
The cheapest quotation is rarely the cheapest house to run. Enter up to three bids with their CAPEX, energy draw, maintenance budget, spare-parts allowance and lead time, and this tool restates each one as a total cost of ownership over your chosen horizon — normalised per bird place and per bird place per year.
Shared assumptions
Use one currency throughout. Escalation applies to energy, maintenance and spares; the discount rate is used only for the present-value row.
Arriving from the hatchery supplier-selection guide
Enter setting capacity as thousands of eggs set per week (a 500,000-egg weekly setting = 500) and energy as kWh per 1,000 eggs set per year. Include room HVAC energy only where that bidder's scope includes HVAC — a scope-mismatched HVAC line is the classic hatchery comparison error.
Capacity unit for hatchery bids: thousands of eggs set per week.
Back to the hatchery guideNormalised lifecycle comparison
Enter at least a quoted CAPEX to see the 10-year view.
Indicative planning aid only. The figures are your own inputs restated on a common basis; they are not quotations, valuations, energy audits or engineering advice, and the tool does not recommend a supplier. HatchMatch is an independent procurement platform and is not a manufacturer, EPC contractor or lender.
What to ask each bidder for
- —Connected load per house and expected annual kWh per bird place at your design conditions.
- —Recommended annual maintenance budget, stated as a percentage of equipment value or an absolute figure.
- —A priced first-year and steady-state spare-parts list, not just a promise of availability.
- —Ex-works and delivered lead time in weeks, with the milestone each date is measured from.
- —Expected service life and replacement interval for fans, pads, heaters, motors and controllers.
- —Whether efficiency figures are measured at working static pressure or at free air.