DS-2 Silk Entering the PIPELINE.
I am assuming that KBLB/Prodigy is using the same scheduling strategy as most other silk producers.
This has been hinted at in KBLB PRs in the past and there are many reasons to expect this to be true.
That strategy is for one cohort of silkworms to reach maturity each week as opposed to rearing one larger batch each 40->60 days.
The major reason for doing things this way is that the worms consume 90% of their total lifetime food supply in the last 7 to 10 days.
It would therefore be much more difficult to supply them with food and clean out the feces that last period than earlier in their life cycle.
If the worms are staged with a new cohort started each week only ~ 1/8 are in that final high consumption stage at one time so that the food and labor costs are much more consistent from week to week.
What this means for us, for delivery timing, is that if the first batch is shipped next week then the second equal sized batch is shipped one week later (to reelers, thread weavers, finished product manufacturers, etc.
This would mean that next week we start filling the PIPELINE.
However long it takes for that pipeline to start outputting finished product it will continue to deliver that product every week thereafter in similar quantities with volume gradually increasing as the input quantity of cocoons rises.
I see many people here talking about this as if it is going to be a single event, it is not, it is the Start of a continuing production process!
Mike L.
