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Chapter II Flashcards

1
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Farms that produce 100, 00 or more broiler per harvest.

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Large commercial farm

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Farms that produces 21,000-99,000 broiler per harvests

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Medium commercial farms

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Farms the produce 1,00-20,000 broilers per harvest

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Small commercial farms

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Farms that produce not more than 100 broilers per harvest

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Small hold/ backyard farms

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Are farms that breed, hatch, grow and market their own products and their own expense

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Integrated grower farm

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6
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Are farms the grow chicken for the integrator

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Contract grower farm

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7
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Contract with an integrator to grow broilers up to marketable age of about how many days.

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36-42 days

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8
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They provides the grower with minimum of 10,00 meat type chicks and 35,000 kg of feeds

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Integrator

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9
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Growers provides what?

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Housing
Labor
Land
Watering and feeding equipment
Brooders
Water
Fuel lighting
Litter materials

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10
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This are farms that have tie ups with integrator or cooperatives whereby integrator/cooperatives sell to growers minimum of 10,000 broilers type chicks and/or feeds at an agreed price

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Contract to buy grower farm

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11
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At harvest the farm sells the broiler produced to integrators/cooperatives at an agreed price

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Contract to buy grower farm

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12
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Are farms that but broiler chicks at current market price and mix their own feed.
They raise and market their own produce/harvest

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Independent commercial grower farms

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13
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Are farms that produce hatching eggs for companies that supply the PARENTS STOCK and feeds.
The companies buy back the hatching eggs at agreed price

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Contract breeding farms

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14
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Are farms the buy parent stock and sell hatching eggs and/or day-old chicks to commercial growers

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Independent or commercial breeder farm

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15
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The broiler breeding operation (BREEDING FARM) main objective

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Achieve and maintain the uniformity of the birds it produce in terms of physical characteristics and production performance

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16
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Maybe achieve by grading the sizes of birds that will be entered into the breeding flocks.

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Flock uniformity

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17
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Is the best graded age of size of females birds

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23-28 days old

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18
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Is the age of best graded sizes of males bird

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After 35 days of gae

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19
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They produce contract for breeding, hatchery, growing and dressing.
They grow chickens independently by buying input like DOC’s and feeds from big corporations

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Smaller and non-integrated companies

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20
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They are traders in supply chain wherein they
Buy live chicken form integrators and underpaid commercial growers
Sell the live birds to dressing plants operators
Sell the dressed birds to wet market compromising 60-70% of locally produced dressed chicken

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Viajeros

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21
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Marketable age and weight of broiler chicken

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36-42 days old weighing 1.6-2.0 kg live weight

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22
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Parameters in selecting a strain of broilers

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Performance
Adaptability and availability of stocks
Reliability of supplies

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23
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The space in between slats

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2.5-2.8 cm (1.5 inches)
should have 2.5 cm width

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24
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Are used as flooring materials

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Bamboo, wood and rattan slats

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25
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It reduces the incidence of lameness and breast blisters

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Nets

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26
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cm holes of The plastic net or fish nets that are used as over lay on top of slatted floors

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2.5 cm holes

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27
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Post which is made of concrete should have how many cm or inches in diameter

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20.3 cm or 8 inches in diameter

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28
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It is elevated to provide ventilation to reduce incidence of coccidiosis and ammonia

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Posts

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29
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Plastic net; fishnets or bamboo

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Walls and dividers

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30
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Recommended width of poultry house

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7.3-9.0m or 24-30 feet

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31
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Recommended space between houses of poultry house

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13.7 m( 45 feet)

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32
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Recommended floor height of poultry house

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1.8 m or 5.9 feet to minimize ammonia build up

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33
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Recommended floor and ceiling height of a poultry house

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2.4 m or 8 feet for optimum ventilation

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34
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2 types of housing

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Splatter floor type
Litter floor type

35
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Sprinklers; foggers and ventilation fans
Reflector paint for the roofing

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Cooling devices

36
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The temperature in the process of providing supplemental heat to keep the brooder

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31.1 or 33.3 degree Celsius for 24 hours

37
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Brooding last for how many weeks

38
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Proper temperature of chicks age 1-7 days

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32.2-35.0 degree Celsius

39
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Proper temperature of chicks age 8-14 days

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29.4-32.2 degree Celsius

40
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Proper temperature of chicks age 15-21 days

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26.7-29.4 degree Celsius

41
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Should enclose the wide floor space

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Brooder guard

42
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One hanging fountain is enough for how many birds

A

80-100 birds

43
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Small cup is enough for how many birds

44
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One nipple is enough for how many birds

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10-12 birds

45
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The use of incandescent bulb, infrared lamp and hover type heaters

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Electricity

46
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Are provided inside the brooder compartment to regulate the temperature

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Thermostat

47
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A 50 kg LPG cylinder is sufficient to provide heat to 1000 chicks for how many days ?

48
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Used in large scale poultry farm and when electricity is not available

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Liquefied petroleum gas

49
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Should be turned on 4 hours before the arrival of chicks

50
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Made of burlap curtains to better control temperature inside brooding house

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False ceiling

51
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Are feed ad-libitum from start to market

52
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15% based on total feed consumption given form a day old to 2 weeks

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Pre-starter or chick booster

53
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35% based on total food consumption given from 2-4 weeks old

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Broiler starter

54
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50% based on total food consumption given form 4 weeks and until desired market weight

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Broiler finisher

55
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A mixture of ground and powdered form of feedstuff

56
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Compressed of mash feeds

57
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Coarsely ground pellets

58
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are balanced and contain adequate nutrients are important in disease prevention

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Food rations

59
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Deficiency problem commonly seen in small flocks

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Vitamin A and D
Calcium and phosphorus

60
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Deficiency of this nutrient can cause severe anemia with reduction in packed volume against feather pigmentation

61
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Deficiency of this nutrient can cause anemia, increased fragility of homed thickened epiphyseal cartilage, reduced vascular penetration of the thick cartilage

62
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Deficiency of this nutrient can cause exudate diathesis, muscular dystrophy

63
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Deficiency of this nutrient can cause enlarged thyroid

64
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These are used to prevent fungal growth in stored ingredients and mixed feeds.

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Antifungal agents

65
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Reduced palatability and may produce mycotoxins.

66
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Use of inhibitor is strongly recommended when moisture content of grains exceed in how many percent, relative humidity increase to how many percent as well as the temperature

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13-14%
Humidity -more than 80-85%
Temperature rises above 12.8 degree Celsius

67
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Theses are preservatives that prevent the oxidation of fats.

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Antioxidants

68
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It may react with oxygen to produce undesirable products with offensive odors and toxic properties and destroy nutrients

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Unsaturated fatty acids

69
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These are substances used to prevent the incidence of coccidiosis in poultry

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Anticoccidial agents

70
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These are substances that bind mycotoxins present in feeds

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Antitoxins

71
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Is a nasty behavior that may develop in a flock. It is manifested by pecking on others toes, tails and feathers.

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Cannibalism

72
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Is a state whereby the normal physiology condition of an organism is adversely affected

73
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A long and narrow house will allow better ventilation than a square house of 10-12 m should be considered maximum .

74
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It causes adverse effects on broiler performance. To prevent it tanks should be insulated an/or located in the shade.

75
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Broilers performs better if provided with cold drinking water. True or false?

76
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During warm weather condition these feeds are recommended to improve food consumption and minimize dusts.

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Pellets and Crumble

77
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as energy source are also useful because it produces lower metabolic heat than carbohydrates

78
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Full-fat soya is an excellent ingredient as it contains how many percent of high-quality fat?

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18% high quality fat

79
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A good quality and digestible of this source is also important during hot weather.

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Digestible phosphate

80
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should be added in fat sources, high fat ingredients, and vitamin premixes to prevent growth of mycotoxin-producing organisms and oxidation of fats Stabilized forms of vitamin C have been found useful under certain situations.

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Mold inhibitors and antioxidants based on ethoxyquin

81
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this vitamin at level higher than 80ppm has also been observed to be beneficial, particularly during stressful condition

82
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During summer months, extra calcium at a rate of 1 g/bird should be provided in the form of what?

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oyster shell grit or limestone

83
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minimizes alkalosis related to heat stress.

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sodium zeolite

84
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Some of the most often ignored causes of stress in broiler chickens

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slamming of doors, bonking of horns and children or dogs running around.

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