No cockerels to crow nor hens to cackle in the yard.
From those so marked the breeding cockerels for the next season are later selected.
That fall sell all of the young cockerels and all the old scrub hens.
Third: The cockerels and old hens sold as a by-product from egg farms.
Since the introduction of the custom of holding fall broilers over in cold storage, the price has fallen until it is now more profitable to market the surplus cockerels from the farm at three or four months of age.
The selling of young cockerels before they begin to annoy the hens.
Leghorn cockerels and hens are a wholesome enough meat, but will never command fancy prices nor warrant extra pains.
When you pick the good cockerels pick out all runty looking pullets and cut off the last joint of the hind toe.
The beginner should, however, operate on several dead cockerels before attempting to operate on a live one.
Cockerels will not quarrel if kept apart from hens until the breeding season, when they should be separated, and put on their several walks.
In crossing, the cockerels will more or less resemble the male, and the pullets the hen.
The cockerels show the white face earlier than the pullets, and a blue, shrivelly appearance in the face of the chickens is a better sign of future whiteness than a red fleshiness.
Those which arecockerels show their flight feathers earliest.
They are not common in this country, and most of the fowls sold in the London markets as capons are merely young cockerels well crammed.
At this show I had three of the largest cockerels ever shown at one time by a single exhibitor, their combined weight being 29 pounds.
To get the cockerels off quick, they must be hatched from strong-germed eggs, incubated properly and kept growing from the first jump out of the shell.
Can three to four month old cockerels be caponized successfully in summer, and if so, what care, feed, etc.
Cockerels of the larger breeds should not be mated before a year old.
A peculiarity in the cockerels is, that they do not show even the rudiments of their tail-feathers till they are nearly full-grown.
The cockerels are caponized when they are about two months old.
The principal object is to produce market eggs, but as the two-year-old hens and the cockerels that are not needed for breeding purposes are sold every year, the receipts from the sale of live poultry are sometimes considerable.
If I had a thin, squeaky crow such as those worthless cockerels have, Farmer Green would have had to do many a day's work in the dark.
The cockerels might fear the Rooster, but Henrietta certainly didn't.
I asked one of the cockerels to give you a message about not crowing so early.
These cockerels usually took great pains to keep out of the Rooster's way.
For a brief space, the long necks of the cockerels were strained in the direction where that vision of loveliness had appeared for a brief instant; the fire of jealous love blazed out, and they turned and fought almost to the death.
If you can get skim-milk cheap why not buy a bunch of young cockerels and stuff them for market?
You will want to get rid of most of your youngcockerels as soon as they are marketable.
You can keep it pure and strong by exchanging cockerels with other breeders of the same variety and with similar ideals and practices.
To walk in a winter morning in a wood where these birds abounded, their native woods, and hear the wild cockerels crow on the trees, clear and shrill for miles over the surrounding country--think of it!
I once made such an arrangement and agreed to give him all but one of the cockerels that hatched.
The surplus cockerels can be sold for enough to pay for the cost of the eggs.
Gwen, you take charge of the cockerels while I find where the Black Minorcas have to go to.
The eggs haven't won anything, but the cockerels have 'commended'.
She helped to arrange the coops, to make wired enclosures for the tiny chicks, and, hardest task of all, to collect the young pullets and cockerels that were allowed to roam on the common, and lock them up safely for the night.
They will cost the farm a dollar apiece, but the farm will have four hundred cockerels to sell at fifty cents each, which will materially reduce the cost.
Four of these houses were for the laying hens, which were divided into flocks of 40 each; while the other house was for the growing chickens and for cockerels being fattened for market.
With this end in view, Sam added young cockerels to four of his best-producing flocks on January 1, and by the 15th he was able to start his incubators.
Seven hundred cockerels were sold in November for $342.
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