Poultry Progress: How Long Should a Chicken Live?

Authors

F. E. Mussehl

Date of this Version

10-1944

Document Type

Article

Citation

Mussehl, F. E. (1944). Poultry progress: How long should a chicken live? (University of Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station Circular No. 77-1)

Comments

ISSN 0099-5460 (print)

ISSN 2690-8034 (online)

Abstract

Increased laying flock mortality has disturbed thoughtful hatcherymen, producers, processors, and research workers for several years, and very properly so, because hens which die before their time serve no useful purpose, except to raise in our minds the question, "Why?"