Returns 
Conservative 
Estimates 
therefore, 4X52X.06, or $12.48. Only grain food is considered, because 
the scraps from your table will supply more than enough green food and 
meat for the flock. 
Should your purpose be to keep no males, you will now dispose of the 
21 cockerels. They will sell readily at 50 cents each, thereby yielding as 
your first income $10.50. Inasmuch as the Rancocas Back-Yard Unit 
consists of but 24 pullets, you will sell also the 7 extra females. These 
should bring an average price of $1.50, which will add to the income 
another $10.50. 
Counting on a yield of but 140 eggs in the pullet year from each bird, 
your first season’s yield will be 24 X140, or 3,360 eggs. Placing an average 
value of 3 cents each on the eggs, your return on the season’s yield will 
be 3,360X.03, or $100.80. 
Inasmuch as you will renew your flock each year, you will dispose of 
the pullets at the end of their laying season. They will average 5 pounds 
each in weight and be worth easily 16 cents a pound. Your return from 
this source will accordingly be 24X.80, or $19.20. 
Recapitulating and striking off 10 per cent, of the value of the house 
and equipment for depreciation, we get the following results: 
Statement of Expenses and Receipts Showing the Estimated 
Net Profit on 52 Birds Incubated and Raised from 100 
Hatching Eggs. First Hatch in February—Second in April. 
EXPENSES 
RECEIPTS 
Hatching eggs. 
$ 10.00 
Sale of 21 cockerels at .50 
Expressage. 
1.00 
each. 
$ 10.50 
Oil for heating incubator. . . 
.50 
Sale of 7 extra pullets at 
Feeding 52 birds 6 months 
$1.50 each. 
10.50 
at .04 each a month. 
12.48 
3,360 eggs at .03. 
100.80 
Feeding 24 birds 11 months 
24 birds marketed at .80 
at .05 each a month. 
13.20 
each. 
19.20 
Depreciation on house and 
equipment. 
6.65 
Total. 
$141.00 
Profit $97.17—more than 
Total. 
$ 43.83 
221 per cent. 
To be sure, your own family will have consumed many of the eggs, 
and several of the young roosters and yearling hens will have served to 
grace your own table. This, however, offers no excuse for omitting them 
from the profit side of the sheet. Indeed, were you to buy the eggs and 
poultry at market rates, you would probably have to pay more for them 
than the prices credited. 
The estimates upon which our statement is based are conservative 
throughout. With the exercise of judgment in disposing of yoiir eggs, 
you can almost certainly get at least 4 cents apiece for them, which would 
add $33.60 to your profits. In addition there is the possibility of selling 
some of your surplus cockerels for much more than 50 cents each, of selling 
hatching eggs as well as market eggs, and so on. 
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