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Broiler Base Mate replaces your integrator Excel sheet with live silo tracking, AI docket scanning, and real-time FCR forecasts — so you know exactly what's in every silo, on every shed, at every second. Built by a 3rd-generation Aussie grower who got fed up with paper.
Built by a grower · for growers · zero fluff.
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The grower's phone and the office desktop, in perfect sync — real farms, real data, right now.
Auto-cascading formulas replace your integrator's Excel: Feed Alloc, Usage, Feed on Hand, Silo Total — updated the moment a grower saves a silo reading from their phone. Click any yellow cell to edit. One-click End-of-Batch PDF matches your processor's sheet exactly.
No installation. No training. Open the link, log silo readings, scan a docket, and you're managing a flock from your phone.
Bookmark your farm's reader link (or tap Add to Home Screen) — no app store, no download. Every grower on the farm can open it.
Walk the sheds. Type each silo's tonnes left. One tap saves all three silos in a shed group.
Photo or QR — Ingham's, Baiada, BPL all auto-detected. Feed type, kg, docket # filled instantly.
Within 2 minutes, the Feed Program's End-of-Batch section reflects every reading and delivery — no copying.
14-day free trial on every plan. Cancel anytime — no contracts, no setup fees.
Running multiple farms? Build a bundle: name each farm, pick the tier, and see the total before you commit. Manage them all from one dashboard.
Resell or bundle Broiler Base Mate to your grower network. Built for companies that already touch dozens of poultry farms — silo manufacturers, feed mills, integrators, vet groups.
Bundle Broiler Base Mate with every silo or shed system you sell. Your customer gets the software free for 12 months — you get a sticky customer and recurring referral revenue.
Sponsor Broiler Base Mate for every grower in your network. Get a centralised regional dashboard. See live FCR, mortality, and feed efficiency across all your contracted farms — without a phone call.
Your growers track FCR better → your feed sells better. Co-marketing partnership: we recommend each other. Plus you get aggregated benchmarking data on how your feed performs across the farms using it.
A monthly contribution that keeps the platform free for small growers. Your sponsorship is split 50% to keep the app running, 30% to the developer, and 20% to a rural charity of your choice.
20% of every sponsorship goes to a rural charity. Pick which one — or donate directly. Receipts are emailed straight from the charity for your records.
"Saved me 4 hours every week. The phone scan of dockets is a game-changer — no more squinting at carbon paper in the office."
"My silo readings used to go missing. Now they sync from my phone to the office spreadsheet in 2 minutes. End-of-batch FCR just calculates itself."
"Manages 4 of our farms from one dashboard. Replaced 3 different spreadsheets and a paper diary. Worth every cent."
Not ready to start the trial? Drop your details and we'll walk you through it personally. No sales pitch — we'll just show you exactly how it'd work for your farm.
Believe in what we're building? A one-off donation accelerates new features for everyone — and you get a thank-you in the app.
Name listed in the app's About section. Helps fund one round of feature development.
Logo on the website + early access to new features. Funds a full sprint of new development.
Co-branded marketing + direct line to product roadmap. Funds 2 months of dedicated development.
Broiler Base Mate was built by a working chicken farmer who got sick of squinting at spreadsheets at 5am. Every feature exists because a real grower asked for it during a real batch.
FCR, corrected FCR (with the 0.27 slope at the 2.45 kg standard), cage rating, efficiency rating and grower payment per bird are calculated live as you enter your weigh-sheet. No more "I think we got 1.55" — you'll know to three decimal places before the truck has even left the farm. The same formulas Baiada and Ingham use to settle your batch payment.
Take a photo of any feed docket — Ingham's, Baiada, BPL Adelaide, Riverina, Manildra — and the AI reads the supplier, feed type, product code, tonnage, delivery date, ticket number and even the outloading bin. The reading drops straight into your feed history and the end-of-batch total. Your phone does the typing while you go fix a feeder.
The mobile field reader queues your silo readings on the phone if mobile data drops out, then syncs the moment you walk back near the house Wi-Fi. No more "I'll enter it later" — and no more lost readings when 4G fails halfway down shed 6.
An on-call assistant that looks at your current bird count, day-age, projected weight and remaining feed, then tells you which shed to drop the next truck into and how long your silos will last. If you ever asked an old hand "where should this load go?" — that's Farm Buddy, except it's awake at 3am with you.
When the last truck rolls off, your end-of-batch report is already done. Feed left in silos, last batch leftover, mortality breakdown, total tonnes delivered, batch costs and a PDF you can email to your supervisor — generated in the time it takes to make a cuppa. No more Sunday-night spreadsheet juggling.
Running 4, 8 or 20 farms? The Ops Dashboard rolls every farm's batches, mortality, feed usage and unread grower chats into one screen. Push announcements to all growers, jump into any farm with a click, and run the entire region from your kitchen bench.
If you can take a photo and tap a green button, you're already qualified. The mobile reader has four tabs — Readings, Scan, Add and History. The Feed Program desktop view looks and works like a spreadsheet because it is one underneath, just live-synced. Most growers are up and running inside half an hour, and your kids or grandkids can be set up as readers for the shed walk-around.
Yes. Broiler Base Mate ships with Baiada and Ingham contract formulas built in — FCR, corrected FCR at 2.45 kg, cage rating, efficiency rating and per-bird payment. If your processor uses a different slope, target weight or efficiency formula, drop us a note via the partner form and we'll add it for free. The maths is in code, not chiselled in stone.
Nothing. The mobile reader stores every silo reading, mortality count and feed docket on your phone first, then syncs to the cloud when reception comes back. You'll see a "📡 Offline — 3 queued" banner at the top so you know the readings are safe. The instant you're back in signal it flushes everything up automatically.
Yes. Your batch results, feed history and grower chat are walled off to your farm only. Every account is locked with Google sign-in or a magic link, no shared passwords. Backups run nightly. Your processor doesn't see your data unless you choose to share a PDF — what you grow, how you grow it, and what it cost stay in your kitchen.
A single farm subscription runs less than the cost of one bag of feed per month. Ops Managers running multiple farms get volume discounts that drop the per-farm price by up to 40%. There's no setup fee, no contract lock-in, and your first month is free so you can run a whole batch through and see what it does for you. Cancel anytime.
Yes. On iPhone, tap the Share button in Safari and choose "Add to Home Screen". On Android, Chrome will pop up an "Install app" prompt the second time you visit. Once installed, Broiler Base Mate behaves exactly like a native app — full-screen, no browser bars, works offline. No App Store paperwork, no Play Store delays, no nagging update prompts.
You don't have to. Broiler Base Mate's Feed Program is the same Excel sheet you've been using — same columns, same formulas, same template — just hosted online and shareable with your team. Import your existing batch xlsx, hit upload, and your historical data is right there. You'll never lose another file to a corrupted USB stick or a phone that took a swim in the water trough.
Jason Coverdale — a working broiler grower in regional Australia. Broiler Base Mate is built by Appcovi (ABN 13 659 165 642), supported by sponsors and a partner network of feed companies, silo monitor makers and rural charities. Every feature request goes to a grower-led roadmap, and 20% of every sponsor dollar goes to a rural charity of your choice.
Ready to leave Excel in the dust?
Try Broiler Base Mate free for your next batch. No credit card, no contract, no commitment. If it doesn't save you a Sunday afternoon, we'll refund every cent.
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