Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 June 1933 — Extremes in Fowls [ARTICLE]

Extremes in Fowls

The common weight of fowls is from 3 to 5 pounds for hens and 4 1/2 to for roosters. The smallest bantam females weigh less than one pound. Cochin and Brahma males have been known to weigh 16 and 17 pounds each. Neither the very small nor the very large specimens have anything to recommend them but their rarity. The smallest bantams are the poorly developed specimens of breeds in which adult females of good type weigh from to 1 1/2 pounds each.