PART TWO 



The discussion enlarged, to include the idea of using a 

 rented or leased place at the start. 



Capital Required 



So far as the chickens themselves are concerned it is 

 comparatively easy to tell you what capital you must 

 have. You can safely count on needing 8Sc to mature a 

 pullet — $850 for one thousand — if you start at the time 

 herein recommended. This is based on your selling the 

 cockerels as broilers as soon as they are ready for market 

 and applying the proceeds on your feed bills as you go 

 along. It is based also on your starting w^ith either hatch- 

 ing eggs or baby chicks of a good strain from some com- 

 mercial breeder or from some hatchery that specializes 

 on first-class chicks for egg-farming purposes. Such 

 chicks would cost you under present conditions from 

 approximately 20c in January to 12 or 13c in March or 

 April and perhaps 16c in September. Under pre-war con- 

 ditions they would have cost perhaps 15c, 10c and 12c 

 for the same months. 



If you go in for higher grade stock at the start, chicks 

 from trap-nested flocks or from birds bred for show pur- 

 poses as well as for utility, there is no telling what the 

 chicks would cost you; any estimate made would be a 

 mere guess. Let us say you pay 30c for the chicks in 

 January. The writer's "guess" as to the cost of raising 

 the pullets then would be $1.10, an increase of 25c. The 

 increase is seemingly out of proportion but it is due to 

 the fact that the broiler cockerels from the higher priced 



