CULLING HENS: A way to increase egg profits

摘要

When you cull hens, you select and remove non-laying and low- producing birds from your flock By removing these birds you--Save the cost of feeding unproductive birds; hens eat 6 to 7 pounds of feed per month whether laying or not. Provide more spacefor the remaining birds. Select hens to keep for a second year of production. When the flock reaches 50-percent production, select non-layers and band them. If they do not start laying after 30 days, remove them Cull the remaining layers that are producing at a low rate.