Services

Everything from the recipe to the report

Pikkers is a one-man feed-formulation practice with a software layer on top. You get the recipe and the numbers to prove it works.

Voerformulering vir lêhoenders

Layer hen feed formulation

We build phase-specific feed recipes for your flock — peak, phase 1, 2, 3 and cull — balanced to your breed standard, production curve, and the ingredients you can actually buy.

Every recipe is costed per ton so you can compare against what you're running now. If the numbers don't beat it, we won't recommend a change.

Eierkwaliteit & dopsterkte

Egg quality & shell strength

Calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D levels matter more for grade-out than most farmers realise. We tune mineral and vitamin programmes to cut cracks and dirties — the numbers that quietly eat your margin.

We also track egg weight, yolk colour (DSM fan) and egg mass output per flock so you can see the recipe working in the production numbers.

Groei & jong-hoender-voeding

Growth & pullet nutrition

Pre-lay body weight is the single biggest predictor of a flock's peak production and persistency. Starter, grower and developer programmes get your pullets to target weight at placement without the feed bill blowing out.

Tropprestasie-sagteware

Flock performance software (Pikkers Lab)

The same web app these services are delivered through. Record weekly data per flock — morts, eggs, cracks, dirties, BW, egg weight, FI, water, temps, pH, ORP.

See % hen-day against breed standard, FCR per dozen, live feed cost per dozen, and more than twenty graphs — right on your phone, in the hen house.

Multiple flocks per house over time, multi-house farm roll-ups, and upload-from-Excel so you can migrate your existing records in one step.

Next step

Want to talk through your flock?

Breed, flock size, what you're trying to improve — send us those and we'll come back with a plan.

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