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 layer supplier-selection guide
Enter kWh per hen place per year including egg belts, manure drying and lighting — ask each bidder to state explicitly whether those loads are in their figure. Because the flock cannot be moved, use a full-cycle maintenance budget rather than a clean-out-window figure.
Capacity unit for layer bids: hen places at the usable area per hen you specified.
Back to the layer 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.