You have two chicken houses averaging 25,000 broilers each. From the time baby chickens were placed in the house and until they are broilers, they generated a total of 1.4 tons of litter (manure and bedding) per 1,000 broilers. The fresh litter contained 3.1 percent nitrogen.

a. How many pounds of litter did each chicken generate?
b. How many tons of litter were generated?
c. How many total pounds of nitrogen are in the fresh litter?


a. 2.8 lb/chick
b. 70 tons
c. 4,340 lb

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