31.10.2015

For specialist poultry farms, average incomes fell by just under 20 percent compared to 2013/14. Although egg enterprise output increased this was more than offset by a reduced output for broilers and other poultry enterprises. Unlike other livestock farms there was no reduction in feed costs, a very small increase in variable costs and a 5 percent increase in fixed costs. However, these changes should be treated with caution because of the small sample. Removing a particularly influential farm from the analysis suggests that the average income fell by 16 percent between 2013/14 and 2014/15 from £99,800 to £84,300.