Show state college poultry department sells meat the poultry department at the state college of agriculture at ith rea N Y sold solid chicken meat to its egg customers in disposing of several hundred eight week old broilers at the end of a feeding experiment the method Is recommended by L 11 II hurd to poultry men in localities where the meat can be retailed the broilers were killed hilled and skinned and only the breasts thighs livers gizzards giz and hearts were sold one man usually killed hilled and stripped from el echt bt to ten birds an hour at twenty five fire cents an hour the cost was about three cents a bird the meat ineat sold to regular egg customers for thirty cents a pound and moved readily he says A two pound broiler brought about thirty cents or about the cost of growing a broiler the shrinkage from the live weight was about 54 per cent it is unnecessary professor ilard points out to wait until the broilers br weigh two pounds for they can be killed hilled any time after they weigh a half pound it is more profitable he says to sell broilers as solid chicken meat than to kill hill and bury the cockerels cockerell cocker els as soon as the sex can be determined as many poultry men did this year |