ibps-so 2016 · Question 319 of 394

A term loan proposal for a two thousand bird layer unit to be raised on deep litter has been placed before the branch, and the eld o cer is verifying the civil estimate before the rst instalment is released. The promoter has provided a single long shed of four thousand square feet of covered area for the whole ock, and has annexed the standard unit cost under which the covered area is worked out by multiplying the number of adult birds to be housed by the oor space prescribed for each bird under the deep litter system. The o cer is aware that the allowance rises with the age and the size of the bird, that overcrowding of a laying ock brings on feather pecking, cannibalism and a fall in egg production, and that an allowance generously above the norm in ates the civil cost and the loan without adding to income. He therefore has to satisfy himself that the covered area matches the prescribed allowance exactly. The oor space to be provided for each adult laying hen housed on deep litter is

1. A1 square foot
2. B2 square feetCorrect
3. C2.75 square feet
4. D4 square feet
5. E6 square feet elds by the depth of soil lying above the weathered rock, and the eld o cer has to read that