Film shows selection and rearing, housing, management and feeding of poultry on farms Farmyard with farmer carrying baskets to out to a field of free ranging chickens with housing. Narrator states this farm has only 80 eggs per bird per annum and scene cuts to farm which has 140 eggs per bird. Planning and good management. Selection and rearing - scenes of a chicks being packed into cardboard boxes for transportation to farms. Brooder house being prepared. Floor covered with litter, peat moss in this case. Hovers kept at 90?. Farmer takes day old chicks to the brooder house and tips them gently out of cardboard box and pushes them under the hover. Hover lid lifted and chicks rearranged. Shows another type of brooder raised off floor with a wire floor and restricted run space. Farmer in a field transferring chicks to fold brooders outdoors (3-4 weeks old). Also have hovers. Farmer transfers them to range houses. Chickens shut in for first day given a run for first few days. Farmer then takes wire run away to allow full range in the field. Woman takes three month old chickens taken to the laying units and puts them in. Housing - chicken houses in fields with free range chickens. Shows slatted floor colony house, solid floor colony house, fold unit and fixed house. Slatted floor colony house shown inside and out. Horse pulling it. Solid floor colony house shown inside and out. Tractor pulling it. Litter on floor of house. Fold unit shown with chickens in enclosed pen. Unit moved by a man and carriage, daily. Fixed house shown inside and out, with supports shown underneath, shows one wired off in field from other stock while chickens roam in and out. Intensive conditions shown, broilers in cages, man feeding them chickens confined to outbuildings on the floor. Management - Shows cleaning of chicken housing, scraping down, scrubbing, creosoting, boards soaked in pond with cattle watching. Nest boxes cleaned. Late afternoon eggs collected by a man with a wicker basket. Takes a broody hen out of the fold unit and puts it in broody coop. Inspects birds to get rid of inferior birds. Man illustrates good and bad bird. Feeding - Two men in a farmyard discuss feeding, [probably County Poultry Officer]. Essential ingredients and amounts of feed shown. Types of feed farmer can grow shown, effected still by wartime rationing. Machinery in barn shown [Kimbell], oats in bag, maize, mixing chicken food shown. Wet mash mixed. Water filled in field. Day old chicks fed on cardboard and then hoppers. Chickens shown being fed in field. Grain scattered. Film recaps main points. Central Office of Information for Farmers Trident Films Ltd Technical adviser I W Rhys