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at ila.6 second test from 2250 eggs leaves 

 2025. Allowing 60 per cent chicks from 

 remaining 2025 eggs gives 1215 chicks. 

 Figuring 50 per cent cockerels, leaves 607 

 pullets and allowing for 15 per cent deaths, 

 leaves 517 pullets at laying age. 



These 2500 eggs from the right kind of 

 stock will cost about $450.00. Feed for the 

 pullets to laying age will cost about sixty 

 cents per bird, giving a total of three hundred 

 dollars. This is figuring on the basis of 

 using 7000 pounds of grain and 7000 

 pounds of dry mash to rear the 500 pullets 

 to the age of six months. The cockerels can 

 be left out of account. Reckoning the cost 

 of the hatching eggs, incubating and brood- 

 ing charges, the selling price of the cockerels 

 is usually about equal to their cost of 

 production. 



Incubators for hatching 1250 eggs at one 

 time will cost about $135.00. A room suit- 

 able for the incubators may be found in the 

 outbuildings if fifty dollars is spent on it. 

 A brooder house to hold 1200 chicks costs 

 about $500.00 with yards. A laying house 

 to hold 500 pullets will cost at present about 



