May. 1932] 



Economic Study of Poultry Farms 



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Table 25 — Dates of hatch of 19M) chick* for replacement of Jailing 



flock* on ,>A farms 



Month 



December 

 January 

 February 

 March 



April 



May 



June 



Total 



93035 



1007 o 



Detail Records on Cost of Growing Pullets on 18 Farms 



In the case of 18 heavy breed flocks more detailed records were 

 secured as to the feed, labor, and other costs entering into pullet pro- 

 duction. Of the 63,331 chicks started, 26,762, or 42.3%, were saved as 

 pullets or breeding 1 cockerels. As indicated in Table 26, 35% were sold 

 as broilers, 2.4% as roasters, 3.4% as started pullets, 3.5% were held 

 for sale as cull pullets or broilers and 12.4% had died or were unac- 

 counted for. 



Table 26 — Summary of brooding record* on IS flock* of heavy breeds, 

 showing disposal of chick* started 



Number chicks died 



Number broilers sold 



Number roasters sold 



Number pullets and breed stock sold . . 



Number started chicks sold 



Number used in home 



Number inventoried as broilers, culls. 



Number of pullets remaitiino 



Number breed cockerels saved 



Total 



63,331 



100% 



On each farm there were usually several lots of different aged pullets 

 which wpre not kept separate when on range, and it was impossible to 

 cut off thp cost items at a definite age of pullet. However, the records 

 included the cost items on pullets until they were removed from the 

 range and housed. Usually, the operator housed his pullets as they 

 approached maturity ; groups would be removed from the range at in- 

 tervals, in general following the order of the hatching dates of the dif- 

 ferent lots. But under these conditions some of the lots of pullets were 

 removed at an earlier age than others. Since a definite cut off could 

 not be made, the age of the pullets as removed from the range should 

 be noted when considering costs. The average age of pullet when leav- 



