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Updated: May 12, 2025
The crate-fattening plant has come to stay in the communities where careful methods of poultry raising are practiced, and where the stock is of the best, but when a plant is located in a newly settled region where the poultry stock is small and feed scarce, the venture is pretty apt to prove a fiasco.
The crate-fattening industry while deserving credit for great improvement in the quality of chicken flesh in the regions where it has been introduced, cannot on the whole be considered a great success. It is commonly reported that some of the firms instrumental in its introduction lost money on the deal.
At the age spoken of these breeds are lanky and unsightly and not wanted by poultry packers. Consecutively with and perhaps responsible for change of sentiment that demands that broilers be allowed to grow into four pound chickens, we find the development of the crate fattening industry. Crate-Fattening. The introduction of crate-fattening into the Central West occurred about 1900.
But, contrary to what the amateur might assume, the moderately fat chicken will continue to make fair gains, while the very lean chicken seldom returns a profit." The idea has been somewhat prevalent that there is some guarded secret about the rations used in crate-fattening. This is a mistaken notion.
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