ibps-so 2016 · Question 383 of 394

A second poultry proposal before the same branch is for a unit which will buy day-old chicks and rear them on deep litter through the brooding and the growing stages together, in one house and without any transfer, selling them at the point of lay to the layer farms of the district. The promoter has provided a house of three thousand square feet for two thousand birds and has annexed the unit cost note under which the covered area of such a house is worked out from the number of birds and the oor space prescribed for each bird under the brooder-cum-grower deep litter system. The eld o cer notes that the allowance under this system is naturally smaller than that for an adult layer, since the birds leave the house before they are fully grown, and larger than that for a broiler, which is marketed at six weeks, and he has to verify the covered area against the correct gure. The oor space per bird under the brooder-cum-grower deep litter system is

1. A0.5 square foot
2. B1.5 square feetCorrect
3. C2.5 square feet
4. D3.5 square feet
5. E5 square feet