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Consumption for a flock will be determined by their assigned standards. Despite the most accurate standards, the most up-to-date flock records, and the most attentive plan managers, feed consumption will not reflect what is actually happening in the house. For that reason, we need a way to "course correct" the plan over time. If the flock is not eating enough feed as we had planned, we will need to reduce consumption to allow them to eat any surplus feed and not deliver more. If we are finding that there is less feed left than we had planned the we need to increase consumption for future deliveries to make sure that flocks complete their rations on the planned age, and not before. See Feed Plan Variance for more information.