Part 2: The Mistake of the Housewife and the World’s First Broiler Shed
The results of poultry nutritionist Thomas Jukes’ experiment with chicken on Christmas Day, 1948, were a blessing or a curse? for the poultry industry. ? It was! The chicks are fed mixed rations of various types and amounts, various vitamin supplements and a special “growth promoter” from the Lederol company for three days from birth, and the weight of the chicks is taken on Christmas Day.
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The results of the study showed that the children who were given vitamins and growth promoters gained 2.5 times more weight than the control group of chicken children (who were not given any vitamins, supplements and growth promoters in their diet). The average weight of one was 277 grams, which is the highest weight record for a 3-day-old chicken baby! We will learn more about the ingredients in Thomas Jukes’ Experimental Ration in later episodes, but before that, it is important to know about Jukes’ Experimental Chicken, or broiler. So let’s go back a bit.
It was the decade after 1900. The American people raised a small number of chickens in the backyard in addition to food crops. Chickens were kept for eggs, and after laying the eggs, the layers were sold for meat. Chickens were of different breeds and types. The pure varieties of chicken are divided into different varieties based on the color of the skin, the shape of the head.
In the January 1921 issue of the American Poultry Journal, a total of six pages of photographs of dozens of chicken varieties from more than a hundred American poultry breeders were published. These included Single Comb Anconas, Brown Leghorns, White Minorcus, etc.
Most farmers kept a small number to a maximum of two hundred chickens. When the laying of eggs decreased, he would sell the chickens for meat or boil the eggs and keep them for eating when he got the chickens.
The farmers used to keep the hens by seeing the advertisements of different breeders based on the weather of their state or state, in the journals, newspapers. Chickens who were champion in producing eggs in the ‘Chicken Fair’ at the state and national level used to produce chicks by keeping them in their farms.
The first innovation in chicken production began with the invention of the electric incubator machine in 1923. As a result, the problem of boiling the baby with chicken or broody hen was reduced to a great extent, the egg-laying chicken began to lay more eggs at that time. Electric hatcheries began springing up in various parts of the United States, delivering chickens across the country by courier. An incident has happened.
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In 1923, Celia Stella, a housewife in the U.S. state of Delaware, ordered 50 one-day-old chicks from a commercial hatchery but mistakenly received 500. The courageous Stella decided to raise 500 children, which led to the creation of the first commercial broiler farm in the world. Stella and her husband built the world’s first wooden broiler shed next to the house, and began brooding the chicks with a coal stove.
They feed the children until they are fit for sale in the market, and finally sell and make a good profit. With the profit, Stella orders 1000 more babies, which we can call the successors of the present-day broilers. These broilers were sold at the Jewish Market in New York City, which was run by women.
The years 1925 to 1930 were the heydays of these broilers. A 1930 study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that for every 10 chickens sold in the Jewish market, 8 were bought by Jewish buyers. The beginnings of the commercial broiler in America began with the wrong order of the housewife Stella. Some forty years later, in 1969, the National Register of Historic Places in the United States designated the Steller broiler rearing wood shed as a historic site. In the picture, we can see the picture of the world’s first commercial broiler house!
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A.F.M Fayjul Islam
BCS (Livestock)
B.SC. In Animal Husbandry, BAU
MS. In Animal Breeding and Genetics, BAU
Poultry and Dairy Consultant