Baby Chick Costs and Weights at New Jersey’s Egg Laying and Breeding Contests

The purpose of this paper is merely to give a summary of the figures that were obtained during the 1922 brooding season at the Vineland Contest. The birds that were being brooded were the progeny of the birds of the Bergen County Contest, but were brooded at Vineland because of the lack of equipment at the Bergen County plant. No one pen received any different attention than another—all were treated alike. The figures are not, therefore, meant to indicate the results of an experiment, but to show about what may be expected on any plant. Efforts were made—and in the writer’s opinion they were successful—to keep an accurate record of every item of expense, as well as accurate records on weights. Since there were nineteen brooder stoves running with from 250 to 300 chicks under each stove, it is felt that the figures may be considered as . . .