Broiler Breeder Management

Question 1

Primary breeding companies

Answer 1

Selection of broiler breeds (pure lines) and production of great-grandparents, grandparents and parent stock.

Question 2

Broiler breeder farms

Answer 2

The production of hatching eggs from parent stock.
- Rearing farms (pullets)
- Production farms (broiler breeders)

Question 3

Hatcheries

Answer 3

The hatching of fertile eggs into day-old chicks.

Question 4

Broiler farms

Answer 4

Rearing day-old chicks into broilers.

Question 5

Processing

Answer 5

Slaughtering the broilers and processing the poultry meat.

Question 6

Retail

Answer 6

Marketing meat and meat products

Question 7

Primary breeder

Answer 7

Breeding birds whose offspring are used as breeding birds.
These include pedigree (elite/foundation), great-grandparent, and grandparent flocks.

Question 8

Primary breeding companies

Answer 8

are large international enterprises with geneticists, nutritionists, veterinarians, and computer specialists on their staff.

Question 9

Cobb - vantress, Ariagen’s, and Hubbard

Answer 9

Three major primary broiler breeding companies in the world.

Question 10

Cobb vantress

Answer 10

incorporated the Hybro breed in 2007 and focuses on selection for feed conversion because feed is the single largest cost associated with producing broiler chickens.

Question 11

Hubbard

Answer 11

is owned by Groupe Grimaud, the second largest multi-species animal breeding company around the world. Has a presence in nearly 100 countries and offers a range of genetic products to meet specific needs for different market segments.

Question 12

Parent breeding flocks

Answer 12

are typically owned by commercial broiler companies.

Question 13

Company own hatcheries

Answer 13

Eggs produced by parent flocks are transported to ________

Question 14

Hen

Answer 14

mature female chicken ( > 1 year old)

Question 15

Pullet

Answer 15

immature female chicken ( < 1 year old)

Question 16

Cockerel

Answer 16

•immature male (< 1 year old)

Question 17

Rooster

Answer 17

male chicken (> 1 year old)

Question 18

Molt

Answer 18

natural process of shedding feathers

Question 19

Brood

Answer 19

hen that sits to lay egg or cover chick; the action of caring for a chick

Question 20

Crop

Answer 20

pouch where chicken digests food

Question 21

Vent

Answer 21

Opening through which hens lay eggs

Question 22

Breeder stocks grandparental stocks, parental stocks)

Answer 22

are the source of replacement stocks when raising pure breeds and needed in the production of commercial hybrids.

Question 23

Re-trimming

Answer 23

may also be carried out if a bird’s beak grows back enough to cause pecking damage. Birds are often re-trimmed at 8-12 weeks of age to avoid this happening. Some non-trimmed adult birds may need trimming if a pecking outbreak occurs.

Question 24

Beak trimming

Answer 24

is the removal of part of the top and bottom beak of a bird.

Question 25

Debeaking

Answer 25

It is also called "____________", although this term is inaccurate as only part of the beak is removed. It is an animal husbandry practice commonly carried out in the poultry industry. Farm managers have their flocks beak-trimmed to blunt the beaks enough to prevent the occurrence of damaging pecking.

Question 26

Mash

Answer 26

is generally used for baby chickens, because it is easy to digest and are feed mixtures containing ingredients in finely ground forms.

Question 27

Crumbles

Answer 27

are produced by grinding pellets into a coarse granular form.

Question 28

Pellets

Answer 28

are mashed feeds that have been compressed with the aid of live steam to produce small chunks of cylinders of feeds.

Question 29

Mash, crumbles, pellet

Answer 29

Forms of feeds of poultry

Question 30

Grading

Answer 30

Is the process of shorting of all individual birds in a flock in to 3 sub-populations based on body weights so that each group can be managed back to the standard to have perfect uniformity in the whole flock at the point of lay (pol)

Question 31

Rearing farms(pullet) and production farm (broiler breeders)

Answer 31

What are the broiler breeder farms?

Question 32

Pullet

Answer 32

What do rearing form produce?

Question 33

Broiler breeder

Answer 33

What does production farms produce?

Question 34

Day old is the most common - less stress

Answer 34

When is beak trimming done?

Question 35

Feather pecking, mortality, vent pecking and prolapse, bullying, stress on the bird

Answer 35

Reasons why beak trimming is done

Question 36

Chick behavior, body weight flock uniformity

Answer 36

Important management indicators during rearing

Question 37

Body weight control

Answer 37

The objective of _________ control is to rear all of the birds to the target weight for age with good uniformity