Labor and Material Requirements for Crops and Livestock 19

 COMMERCIAL POULTRY FLOCKS 2
 "Starting with 1,200 layers each fall, a poultryman should be
able to care for them and raise about 800 pullets, if a small
amount of family labor or day labor were available during the
spring months. This would require about 2,500 hours of work
producing eggs and about 700 hours raising pullets. If less than
1,000 chicks are needed per year it would seem advisable to buy
them, as cost per chick increased and returns per hour of labor
decreased very rapidly when less than this number was
hatched." 3
 Average feed requirements per laying bird were 77 pounds.4
About 50 percent of feed consumed by laying birds was mash and
50 percent home-mixed grain.5 Poultry flocks with green feed
available all year had the highest egg production. The use of
green feed did not decrease the pounds of concentrated feed the
hens consumed.6
 Commercial poultrymen or farms with commercial poultry
flocks will find much additional and valuable data concerning
poultry production in the publication from which this material
has been taken.
 WORKSTOCK
 The time spent in tending workstock is included also in farm
chores. Feed requirements for a mule will vary with the amount
of work performed and the size of the animal. Average feed for
46 farms in Madison County consisted of 75 bushels of corn and
1 ton of peavine hay or equivalent per mule.

 MISCELLANEOUS FARM LABOR
 Miscellaneous farm labor consists of feeding and tending the
milk cow, the farm flock of chickens, and the workstock. It
also includes time spent on the farm garden and tending to
miscellaneous farm work. Such labor requirements vary a great
deal throughout the year, although there is odd work to be done
on a farm every day in the year. On a 1-mule farm at least 35
hours a month should be allowed for miscellaneous labor. On a
2-or-more-mule farm at least 45 hours a month should be allowed.

 Data in this section obtained from "An Economic Study of Commercial
Poultry Farming in Florida," Frank W. Brumley, Florida Extension Bulle-
tin 105, 1940.
 'Ibid., pp. 86-87.
 SIbid., p. 61.
 SIbid., p. 63.
 SIbid., pp. 67-68.