Poultry Keeping
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Poultry Keeping merit badge | ||||
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Status: | Discontinued | BSA Advancement ID: | unavailable | |
Created: | 1911 | Original/new/replaced: | ||
Discontinued: | 1974 | Replaced by: |
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Merit badge requirements
- 1. Have a knowledge of incubators, foster-mothers, sanitary fowl houses, coops and runs.
- 2. Understand, through experience, rearing, feeding, killing and dressing birds for market.
- 3. Be able to candle and pack eggs for market, describe the differences, in candling, which distinguish the bad eggs from the good; and tell how eggs are graded.
- 4. Raise a brood of not less than 10 chickens.
- 5. Report his observation and study of the hen, turkey, duck and goose.
OR
- Comply with the 4-H Club or Home Project Project Requirements in Poultry Management.
![]() | The official source for the information shown in this article or section is: Boy Scout Handbook, 1948 Edition |