A public poultry market, even as well arranged as this one, is not the most satisfactory source of laying birds for the household poultry keeper. Poultry farmers usually dispose of their discarded hens and cull pullets through the markets, and such birds, though they may be quite healthy, are really fit only for the table.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 84, Issue 4, 15 April 1952, Page 271
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55A public poultry market, even as well arranged as this one, is not the most satisfactory source of laying birds for the household poultry keeper. Poultry farmers usually dispose of their discarded hens and cull pullets through the markets, and such birds, though they may be quite healthy, are really fit only for the table. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 84, Issue 4, 15 April 1952, Page 271
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