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22 Cards in this Set
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What are the aspects of the poultry industry?
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Egg Production
“Table Egg” Industry Broiler Industry Fryers Turkey Industry Duck & Duck eggs Game Birds |
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What is a Balout and what market desires them?
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Duck embryo
Asian market |
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Why has consumption of chicken has increased?
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Health perception of eating white meat
Cost is inexpensive Convenience of further processing Fast Food outlets |
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How much more protein, minerals, feed etc. does broiler need than layers?
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Broilers need 50% more feed/minerals and 14-22% more protein than Layers.
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What is the #1 poultry state in the U.S.?
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North Carolina
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What is the #1 chicken (layer) strain?
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W36
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Broilers are genetically bred to do what?
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Sit, Eat, Drink
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When do broilers go to market?
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7 - 8 weeks
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What biological regeneration happens to the chicken during molting?
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Oviducts are overhauled.
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How does molting start, what is it caused by?
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Induced by low light and fasting, naturally happens during fall.
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What are the genetically controlled traits of chickens?
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Egg:
-Size -Shape -Quality - internal and external -Color Rate of lay Morbidity rate Temperament Body Weight Feed Consumption Forgiveness Molt ability |
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Candling eggs is used to look for what in the egg and on the shell?
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Shell soundness
Interior quality Stage of embryonic development |
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What is a pullet?
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Female hen of less than one year.
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What is a spent fowl?
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Chicken that has reached the end of their productive life.
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What are poppers?
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Eggs that contain growing bacteria and explode.
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Why are males and females housed separately?
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They have different feed needs and growth. Females need extra Ca that would kill a male.
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Why are we looking for when candling eggs?
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We are looking for quality to grade the egg.
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Signs of a normal chicken:
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Red comb/wattle
bleached beak and shank lack of molt |
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Signs of abnormal chicken:
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molting
shrunken head parts yellow shank poor eggshell thickness reduced egg production |
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What diseases do we vaccinate for in CA?
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Bronchitis
Gumburo Laryngotracheitis (LT) Newcastle Viral Arthritis Mareks Disease Avian Encephalomyelitis (AE) |
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What type of integration is the poultry industry?
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Vertically integrated
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What turkey producers are no longer in CA and who remained?
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Left: Louis Rich & ConAgra
Stayed: Zacky and Foster Farms |
