Abstract
The yields of eggs of various categories from modern highly productive crosses of chickens (SP-789, Lohmann LSL Classic, Lohmann Brown Lite) were studied. The comparative efficiency of the egg sale by weight and categories, the development of a pricing methodology are discussed. It was found that for the considered crosses the first category is the modal class or the class of the highest frequency of occurrence. The average weight, the cost of 1 g of egg weight, and the new selling price of eggs of the first category practically coincide with the average values of these parameters of the general set. The most economically feasible is the sale of edible eggs by weight. However, it requires additional financial investments for the purchase, installation, and maintenance of weighing equipment. In this regard, the author has developed and proposed a methodology for determining the single-piece price sale of eggs of different categories, which makes it possible to increase the income of an enterprise as compared to selling eggs by weight. According to the new methodology the selling price of the first category eggs is taken as a basis for assessing the selling price of eggs of other categories. This value is multiplied by the coefficients for the corresponding categories, which are calculated by dividing the new price of eggs of each category by the new price of eggs of the first category. These coefficients should be developed for each specific cross, taking into account the duration of the productive seasons and the conditions of the farms.
Highlights
In modern economic conditions increasing the efficiency of production in poultry farming becomes the main direction of its development and practically the only opportunity to further increase the production of eggs and poultry meat, and to increase the competitiveness and profitability of the industry [1,2,3,4]
Poultry farms in Russia and the CIS countries sell edible eggs to the consumer by item, taking into account weight categories [13] while in the EU countries edible eggs are sold by weight [14]
Speci-fications" [15], edible eggs are divided into 5 weight categories: the third (35-44.9 g), the second (45-54.9 g), the first (55-64.9), selected (65-74.9 g), and the highest (75 g and more)
Summary
In modern economic conditions increasing the efficiency of production in poultry farming becomes the main direction of its development and practically the only opportunity to further increase the production of eggs and poultry meat, and to increase the competitiveness and profitability of the industry [1,2,3,4]. Poultry farms in Russia and the CIS countries sell edible eggs to the consumer by item, taking into account weight categories [13] while in the EU countries edible eggs are sold by weight [14]. The disad-vantage of this standard is that each weight category of eggs has a fairly large interval (9.9 g) [16]. When eggs are sold by the categorized items, the selling price of the lightest and the heaviest eggs within each category and the resulting income of the farm will be the same
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