CHAPTER A VI, 
SELLING OFF OLD HENS 
Each flock of pullets should be banded with 
leg bands when put into winter quarters, so 
the age of any bird can be told by looking at 
the banded leg, in order that the following 
summer, when you look over the flock with 
the idea of selling the surplus hens you will 
know the age of every one. Until your flock 
has increased to the size that satisfies you 
it will not be advisable to sell yearling hens. 
Anything older should be disposed of unless 
some special ones are to be saved for breeders. 
If you have some strain or breed that for 
some reason—that they are great layers, for 
instance—are well-known, you may be able 
to sell the hens for an advance on the price 
they would bring for meat; but unless you 
are fortunately located some place where 
your neighbors would purchase these hens, 
it would probably require some advertising 
to enable you to sell beyond regular meat 
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