CHAPTER XI 
FATTENING BROILERS AND OLD HENS 
The cockerels you intend to sell as broilers 
should be separated from the pullets as soon 
as you can pick them out and penned up in 
rather close quarters to prevent their exer- 
cising too much. Then they should be fed 
more with the idea of putting on weight as 
fat, than as bone and muscle; but my ex- 
perience is that it is a hard proposition to 
make growing roosters very plump. The 
experts say they do it but the novice will 
have quite a job to add weight to his little 
cockerels faster than they would naturally 
put it on if fed all they need to eat. Of 
course, reducing the size of the exercising 
quarters and a special feed will help, and ex- 
perience will also teach you how it may be 
done. 
Last year I sold about 500 broilers of 
various breeds and found that the White 
Leghorn cockerels reached the 2 or 2% 
pound size fully as soon as the heavier 
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