Chapter II Flashcards
Farms that produce 100, 00 or more broiler per harvest.
Large commercial farm
Farms that produces 21,000-99,000 broiler per harvests
Medium commercial farms
Farms the produce 1,00-20,000 broilers per harvest
Small commercial farms
Farms that produce not more than 100 broilers per harvest
Small hold/ backyard farms
Are farms that breed, hatch, grow and market their own products and their own expense
Integrated grower farm
Are farms the grow chicken for the integrator
Contract grower farm
Contract with an integrator to grow broilers up to marketable age of about how many days.
36-42 days
They provides the grower with minimum of 10,00 meat type chicks and 35,000 kg of feeds
Integrator
Growers provides what?
Housing
Labor
Land
Watering and feeding equipment
Brooders
Water
Fuel lighting
Litter materials
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
Contract to buy grower farm
At harvest the farm sells the broiler produced to integrators/cooperatives at an agreed price
Contract to buy grower farm
Are farms that but broiler chicks at current market price and mix their own feed.
They raise and market their own produce/harvest
Independent commercial grower farms
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
Contract breeding farms
Are farms the buy parent stock and sell hatching eggs and/or day-old chicks to commercial growers
Independent or commercial breeder farm
The broiler breeding operation (BREEDING FARM) main objective
Achieve and maintain the uniformity of the birds it produce in terms of physical characteristics and production performance
Maybe achieve by grading the sizes of birds that will be entered into the breeding flocks.
Flock uniformity
Is the best graded age of size of females birds
23-28 days old
Is the age of best graded sizes of males bird
After 35 days of gae
They produce contract for breeding, hatchery, growing and dressing.
They grow chickens independently by buying input like DOC’s and feeds from big corporations
Smaller and non-integrated companies
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
Viajeros
Marketable age and weight of broiler chicken
36-42 days old weighing 1.6-2.0 kg live weight
Parameters in selecting a strain of broilers
Performance
Adaptability and availability of stocks
Reliability of supplies
The space in between slats
2.5-2.8 cm (1.5 inches)
should have 2.5 cm width
Are used as flooring materials
Bamboo, wood and rattan slats
It reduces the incidence of lameness and breast blisters
Nets
cm holes of The plastic net or fish nets that are used as over lay on top of slatted floors
2.5 cm holes
Post which is made of concrete should have how many cm or inches in diameter
20.3 cm or 8 inches in diameter
It is elevated to provide ventilation to reduce incidence of coccidiosis and ammonia
Posts
Plastic net; fishnets or bamboo
Walls and dividers
Recommended width of poultry house
7.3-9.0m or 24-30 feet
Recommended space between houses of poultry house
13.7 m( 45 feet)
Recommended floor height of poultry house
1.8 m or 5.9 feet to minimize ammonia build up
Recommended floor and ceiling height of a poultry house
2.4 m or 8 feet for optimum ventilation