The Eastern poultryman (1905) The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma63unse Year: 1905 THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 39 Cockerels for practical purposes should be purchased early and for that matter the same could be as well said of all cockerels intended for breeding purposes exclusively, but the dockerels purchased particularly for improving the practical, money earning capacity of a flock in market eggs and poultry should be bought not later than November or early in December for several very good sound reasons. In the first place that is the sea- son when such birds are for sale in the largest
The Eastern poultryman (1905) The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma63unse Year: 1905 THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 39 Cockerels for practical purposes should be purchased early and for that matter the same could be as well said of all cockerels intended for breeding purposes exclusively, but the dockerels purchased particularly for improving the practical, money earning capacity of a flock in market eggs and poultry should be bought not later than November or early in December for several very good sound reasons. In the first place that is the sea- son when such birds are for sale in the largest numbers and when the market is best supplied we all know is the best time to buy, because at this time one can buy an early hatched well developed cockerel as cheap, or possibly cheaper, than he could buy a later hatched inferior bird three or four months later. Besides the cockerel will give better results if he is removed from the other males and kept by himself, or allowed with his mates during the winter and with no other males to bother him, and the early eggs are then fertilized and ready for hatching and it is well known that the early chicks are the money makers on a commercial poultry plant. Besides these advantages there is the possibility of not being able to get the kind of a cockerel one wants later on. Any breeder of poultry who is known to have good stock makes it a point to utilize all the poultry house room available on his place for wintering his choicest specimens, breeders of merit that will sell for a good price and pay him well to go to the expense and bother of wintering. If he has any cockerels which are defective in fancy points, but are fine practical breeding birds, he usually either sells them as breeders in the fall at a medium to low price or puts them on the market as dressed poultry and the result is, those who wait to buy until late in the winter or the next spring often are disappointed to find that they are unable to get what they want. Almost
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