Days of feed left calculator for poultry silos
This calculator estimates how many days a feed silo will last from how full it is, how many birds it feeds, and how much each bird eats per day, including intake that rises as the flock grows. Enter your own figures from the silo and your breed management guide.
Fill in capacity, level, birds and daily feed to see the result.
- Days of feed left
- Feed in the silo
- kg
- Used today
- kg per day
- Runs out on
- Order no later than
More than a year at this rate
Order todayHow the number is worked out
- Feed in the silo is capacity multiplied by the level, in kilograms.
- Each day uses birds multiplied by feed per bird, and feed per bird rises by the daily increase you entered.
- Days are counted until the next day would need more feed than is left. The last part-day is shown as a fraction.
- The order date is the run-out date minus your delivery lead time.
Let the silo tell you instead
A radar level sensor on the silo roof reads the feed level continuously and alerts your phone before the silo runs low, so the first number above is never a guess.
Feed silo level monitoringQuestions farmers ask
How do I know how full my silo is?
By eye through a sight glass, by tapping the wall, from the weight of the last delivery minus what the house has used, or continuously with a level sensor on the silo roof. Feed can bridge or leave a hollow core, so a reading from one side can be wrong in either direction.
What feed per bird per day should I enter?
Your own figure: from the feed records of this flock, or from the management guide for your breed at the flock's current age. Intake changes with age, breed, temperature and feed form, so a general number would make the result less accurate, not more.
Why does the daily increase matter for broilers?
Broiler intake rises nearly every day of the cycle, so a silo that looks like it has a week of feed at today's intake can run out sooner. Entering the daily increase makes the estimate follow the flock.
Stop estimating what is in the silo
Tell us how many silos and houses you run. We will propose a radar sensor for each silo and send a quote.