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Cc143 Poultry Profit Pointers: Choosing Your Baby Chicks, Elvin C. Schulte
Cc143 Poultry Profit Pointers: Choosing Your Baby Chicks, Elvin C. Schulte
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
The successful poultryman is very careful in buying chicks, and in selecting birds for his breeding or laying flock. Well-bred stock will do quite well even when conditions are poor, but poor stock will not pay under the best conditions.
This campaign circular discusses what to look for when purchasing chicks for your farm. This includes disease-free chicks, and the types and breeds. It also discusses how many to start with, when to start, keeping records, how to feed them, and preparing the brooder house for the arrival of new chicks.
Cc56-132 Poultry Profit Pointers: Range Management, Elvin C. Schulte
Cc56-132 Poultry Profit Pointers: Range Management, Elvin C. Schulte
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This campaign circular discusses range management. The number of birds that can be ranged on an acre will depend upon the type of sod and the fertility of the land. On most land, 250 to 500 pullets can be ranged per acre.
Pullets should be reared on range after geing started in permanent or colony brooder houses. They should be hardened off by letting them run on wire sun porches or gravel yards in front of the brooding houses and then transferred to the shelters on the range.