48 POULTRY 
words, fifty pounds instead of one hundred; 
and this semi-solid buttermilk should be fed 
all summer. While semi-solid buttermilk 
may not entirely take the place of green feed, 
it will materially help. It has been found 
that chickens ranged considerably less when 
fed on milk and ate down the grass on their 
range very much less—an indication that 
milk will take the place of the green feed for 
growing chicks. 
Selling Off Broilers. Just as soon as the 
chickens reach two pounds the male birds, 
after the breeders have been picked out, 
should be shipped to market. There is no 
time when a chicken will pay as great a per- 
centage of profit over and above its feed 
cost as it will when it is disposed of as a two- 
pound broiler. The man who keeps his male 
birds until they reach the roasting size—five, 
six, and seven pounds—does not make as 
much money on each individual chicken as he 
would have if he disposed of it as a broiler. 
Also, he has added to his cost of labor in 
caring for the chickens, he has added to his 
risk, and of course he has added to his 
housing costs. 
