FLOCK MANAGEMENT FOR EGGS AND MEAT 373 
kind of material, style or character. Preferably they 
should be darkened and placed in secluded parts of the 
house or yard. A favorite place for them is beneath the 
roosting platform. Where egg eating is discovered the 
dark nest is one of the best ways to eliminate the habit. 
Trap nests show which hens are the layers and which 
the drones. Where one is breeding for egg production 
they are a necessity. 
BROILERS PROPERLY FITTED FOR MARKET 
12. Broilers.—More than 90 per cent of the chickens sold 
as broilers come from poultry produced on egg farms, 
fancy yards and general farms where they are a by-prod- 
uct and must be got rid of quickly to prevent loss. 
Cockerels may pay more than the cost of feeding, but 
unless they can have free range they are not likely to 
pay the whole cost of their production, counting the 
value of the eggs, the cost of hatching and the labor and 
the feed, up to the time of their being marketed. Unless 
one has facilities for fattening and thus disposing of his 
cockerels as roasters or capons, it would be more eco- 
nomical to-sell the broilers as soon as they are of mar- 
ketable size. 
