The Dollar Hen

The text critiques conventional poultry literature and presents a practical, economics-centered approach to poultry production, aiming to make flocks profitable rather than merely technically successful. It explains cost accounting and management decisions, examines the limits of large-scale specialization where labor quality matters, and advocates systems that preserve individual interest—such as profit-sharing, share arrangements, cooperative enterprises, and worker ownership—while centralizing services that gain from scale. Chapters address production organization, labor efficiency, feeding, brooding, housing, and marketing, emphasizing measurable results and methods to reduce costs and increase returns.