Show E EXPENSE PENSE OF RAISING LEGHORN PULLETS axe 4 4 A flock OF LEGHORNS ON FREE RANGE for the lost last four years the pennsylvania sylvan fa experiment station liaa has been collecting data on the cost of raising leghorn pal pullets ballets lets in tills this experimental world thousands of chicks havo have been hatched and every item of 0 expense in connection with raising them has been kept the results of the experiment aro ro summarized in ili 0 n recent bulletin ia i a follows 1 cased based on four sen seasons sons work and several thousand chicks hatched botched it required eggs set hot for every leghorn chick hatched 2 1110 dho cost of hatching these eggs at 21 cents per chick when addell added to tile cost of eggs increased lie ho total cost of a chick when hatched to 67 cents 3 based on the first 12 weeks of life it took bcd pounds of grain and mash and pounds of milk costing 1434 cents to feed a leghorn click chick 4 during tile same time it took pounds of grata and mash and pounds of wilk milk costing 84 cents to produce ono pound of euln P iten W an cost ot of feed fuel labor null litter the cost of one of gain was cools cents 0 the average leghorn pullet twenty four weeks old and ready to iny weighed pounds 7 the feed was by fur far tho the most expensive item in the cost of rearing chicks 8 on tho basis of a hundred chicks hatched and a 17 per cent mortality ho file per cent of pullets was and the per cent of cockerels cocker els per cent 9 the time of hatching greatly in tho the rate of growth of tho the chicks tho the price of broilers the net cost of growing and the weight of pullets at laying age E sarly arly hatching paid best 10 early cockerell cockerels els were sold nt at a profit profil may hatched broilers sold nt at a loss joss 11 the gross average cost of a pul let iva was s cents this less profeta in cockerels cockerell cocker els ninde made the net cost cents 12 mortality varied and influenced the final cost the average mortality of chicks was 17 per cent 13 for every pullet reared it required the setting of eggs 14 cockerels Cocker els grow more rapidly than pullets |