Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1904 — Profitable Chicken Feeding. [ARTICLE]

Profitable Chicken Feeding.

Many careful tests in chicken feeding have shown that as great gains are as cheaply and more easily made when the chickens, in lots not to exceed 100, are put in a house with a floor space of 75 to 100 feet and a yard of corresponding size as when they are divided into lots of four birds each and confined in latticed coops Just large enough to hold them. Four weeks have been about the limit of profitable feeding, both in the large and small lots. Chickens gain faster while young. Birds from 150 to 175 days old give comparatively small gains.