Built for commercial pig units in Kenya
Run the farm on real numbers, not memory.
Laravel is a farrow-to-finish management system for commercial Kenyan pig units — every pig, every feed bag, every shilling tracked from birth to sale, so a manager can see cost per kilogram, breeding performance, and cash runway on demand, not guess at them.
Three things decide whether a pig unit makes money
None of them are visible from memory alone — they only show up in the records.
65–75%
Feed is most of the cost
Feed is typically 65–75% of total production cost. A few percentage points of waste or a bad formulation decision moves the whole farm's margin.
ASF
One outbreak can end a herd
African Swine Fever is the tail risk every commercial unit in Kenya lives with — biosecurity and quarantine discipline are the difference between a scare and a wipeout.
Thin
Margins are invisible without records
At small commercial scale, margins are thin enough that a farm without real per-pig, per-batch cost records genuinely doesn't know if it's profitable until it's too late to act.
What's actually built
Not a roadmap — every item below is a working feature in the system today.
Least-cost feed formulation
A solver finds the cheapest ration meeting nutritional targets, costed against weighted-average purchase price per ingredient.
FCR and ADG, computed automatically
Feed conversion ratio and average daily gain are calculated from actual feed and weight records — never a manual spreadsheet.
Withdrawal periods enforced at sale
A medicated pig's withdrawal period is checked and enforced at the point of sale, not just logged for reference afterward.
Biosecurity, quarantine, outbreak mode
Quarantine rules, visitor and disinfection logs, and a dedicated outbreak mode for ASF readiness.
True per-pig cost and margin
Cost per kg liveweight, break-even price and weight, and margin per pig, batch, or sow — not a farm-wide average.
Cash flow and runway
Receivables and payables aging and cash runway, calculated from actual recorded transactions.
Breeding KPIs
Farrowing rate, non-productive days, litters per sow per year, and piglets weaned per sow per year.
A calendar that predicts, not just records
Heat detection and a reproductive calendar that projects service, farrowing, and weaning windows ahead of time.
12-month forecasting
Forecasts are built from the herd's real current state, with budget-vs-actual variance tracked monthly.
Excel and PDF exports
Including a lender pack and a processor pack, formatted for the audience that actually reads them.
AI farm analyst
Ask questions about the farm's own data in plain language and get answers grounded in the real records.
M-Pesa reconciliation
M-Pesa statement rows matched against recorded sales and payments — everything in KES.
What a well-run 10-sow unit is aiming for
Figures below are business-plan targets a farm using this system tracks itself against — they are goals, not a claim of achieved results.
- Piglets weaned / sow / year (target)
- 8.5–9.0
- Pre-weaning mortality (target)
- < 10%
- Gross margin (target)
- 28–30%
- Cash runway (target)
- > 3 months
Built around how Kenyan pig units actually run
Every figure in the system is in Kenyan Shillings. Payments reconcile against real M-Pesa statements. Movement permits and quarantine records are built around county veterinary compliance requirements. Export packs are formatted for the kind of processor supply relationships commercial units sell into — the Farmer's Choice-style buyers who expect proper records, not a notebook.