CULLING 97 
These twenty-five birds out of each one 
hundred that are laying only sixty eggs per 
year are not any more than paying their own 
board. On the other hand, the remaining 
seventy-five are yielding a substantial profit. 
Therefore, the successful poultryman will 
make every effort possible to cull his hens 
and remove the poor producers from his 
flock. This, of course, applies not only to 
the removal of poor producers from a flock 
of breeders, but also their removal from the 
general flock. 
When to Cull. The culling of any flock 
of hens should begin at the time that they 
are small chicks. If a man discards all of 
the poor chicks the day he takes them from 
the incubator to the brooder, he will have 
more money at the end of the year than he 
would have if he allowed them to remain in 
the brooder, to develop, and to reach the 
laying age. With poor chicks development 
is always slow. Invariably such chicks, if 
not discarded then, will prove to be the 
ones that a good poultryman removes from 
his flock and sells as culls at the time that he 
houses his pullets. 
