Health and withdrawals

The Health module records every treatment you give a lot and tracks the withdrawal period each one triggers, so treated eggs or birds cannot be sold or moved until it is safe. This keeps you compliant without having to track dates on paper.

Before you start

The lot must be active, and the medication must be in your inventory with its withdrawal days set - the number of days after treatment before eggs and before meat are clear. If a medication has no withdrawal days yet, the form asks you to enter them before you can save.

Record a treatment

1. Open the lot, go to Health, and choose Record treatment.
2. Pick the medication, the route (water, feed, injection, or spray), the dose (per bird or total), and the number of birds treated.
3. Submit.

When you save, PoultryDesk does three things at once: it records the treatment, deducts the medication from your inventory, and opens a withdrawal on the lot. The withdrawal's end date is worked out from the treatment date plus the medication's withdrawal days - a separate end date for eggs and for meat. You cannot shorten it by hand.

While a withdrawal is active

The lot shows a withdrawal banner counting down to the clear date. During this window, PoultryDesk blocks the actions that would put treated product into the market - selling or harvesting birds for sale, or grading eggs. If you try, it explains which withdrawal is active and until when.

For genuine emergencies there is an override on sales, but it requires a written reason and is recorded in the audit trail and on compliance reports.

If a lot has more than one treatment running, the effective clear date is the latest one, per product class.

When it clears

Withdrawals clear themselves on their end date - there is nothing to close by hand. The banner disappears and the blocked actions open up again.

What you get

• A lot dashboard with active treatments, a withdrawal banner with a countdown, and the treatment history.
• A withdrawal calendar across a site or the whole organization, sorted by clear date, so you can see at a glance which lots are held back and until when.
• Medication usage tied to each treatment in the inventory ledger, and a full audit trail.

See also

• Tracking inventory
• Raising layers
• Recording sales and expenses