Show n J CHICK PRODUCING COST IS FIGURED feed investment and labor greatest items 33 by P r J rin findlen dlen department of agricultural economics now new york state collese college service how much does it cost to raise a chicken ken until he is twenty weeks old for farmers who keep cost accounts with the new york state college of agriculture the average total cost for each pullet or cockerel raised Is allowing credit for broilers the net cost for each bird raised was 02 cents the cost may vary from year to year the figures given ire are for recent years abolia about 41 per cent of the total cost was for feed 27 per cent was for the cost of the chicks and 16 per cent was for labor each pullet or cockerel raised had an average value of the average return for each hour of labor on chicks during this period was 48 cents it took nine pounds of grain and 38 39 pounds of mash to raise each bird to twenty weeks of age sixty six hours of labor were needed to raise of them thirty one farmers kept accounts of chicks with the colleges the average number of chicks started on each farm was 1033 1633 about one third of which were pullets or cockerels cockerell cocker els raised another third were broilers 10 per cent were pullets sold before they were twenty weeks old and about 20 per cent died |