Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 June 1933 — Cull Out Weaklings [ARTICLE]

Cull Out Weaklings

When putting chicks out on the range it is a good plan to discard everyone that as you handle it seems to you to be notably below the average of the lot in substance and vitality. The tendency is to keep any which are regarded as having a chance to grow to marketable size. This is done with the idea that if one eventually gets something for such a chick, he is better off than if he killed it at this stage. “While there’s life, there’s hope,” may be a good motto in some things, but not in managing hens and chickens. If one will keep the weaklings, let him put them in a flock by themselves, away from the others, and keep a separate account of their feed and of what they bring when sold.