WITH 4200 HENS 115 



under weight can be put into the next compartment 

 through the partition door; and the very small ones 

 should be put into a crate standing outside. 



This is the easiest way we know of to make the grad- 

 ing. If a bird is unruly and refuses to lie on the scale, 

 fold the wings, one over the other, passing the joint of 

 one wing clear round the other wing. When you have 

 graded a few hundred in this manner you will soon learn 

 to pick them out without separate weighing, and you 

 can then use a crate in the yard with a platform scale 

 just outside it, weighing six or more at a time. 



The grading should be done early in the morning be- 

 fore the birds have filled their crops. This will save you a 

 lot of dissatisfaction in dealing with your buyer. It is 

 useless to try and sell a lot of feed (inside the birds) at 

 broiler prices ; and if you are shipping them, while it is 

 good practice to give them some feed before sending them 

 on the journey, to prevent undue shrinkage en route, be 

 sure to allow for the weight of the feed in counting what 

 you are likely to get for them, as it will be dissipated be- 

 fore they reach the marketman; otherwise you will be 

 like the farmer who said of his pig that it did not weigh 

 as much as he thought it would and he did not expect 

 it to. 



Cockerels Intended for Breeders 



The cockerels retained for possible breeders are given 

 the use of the large yard as well as the small ones. The 

 large yard has been planted to green stuff previously and 

 they are turned into it. They are continued on chick 

 mash, grain and sprouted oats until they are about o 

 months old when hen mash is substituted. Meantime we 



