General Principles II Flashcards
What is the country’s chicken inventory composed of?
Broiler, Layer, and Native/Improved Chickens
Which chicken types have the most and least population?
Native/Improved - 44.72%
Layer - 19.66%
What are some problems of the poultry industry?
- Unstable supply of broiler meat and prices.
- Avian Flu Virus and reduction in consumption.
- Disparity of farmgate and retail prices.
What is the usual growing period in poultry?
35-40 days
Downtime for 5 grows.
33-38 days.
Downtime for 5.5 grows.
26-31 days.
Downtime for 6 grows.
20-25 days.
Grower farms that breed, hatch, grow, and market their own products at their own expense.
Integrated Grower Farms
Grower farms that grow chicken for integrators where 10,000 chicks, feeds, vaccines, diagnostic services, and farm planning are provided.
Contract Grower Farms
Grower farms that produce hatching eggs for companies that supply the Parent Stocks.
Contract Breeding Farms
Farms that buy Parent Stocks and sell hatching eggs to commercial growers.
Independent or Commercial Breeder Farms
Broiler strains that have excellent livability, efficient food conversion ratio, and very good growth rate and meat yield.
Arbor Acres (San Miguel) and Starbro (Universal Robina)
Broiler strain that is popular in the free range chicken meat production business.
Hubbard (Tyson Agro)
Broiler strain that have especially good breast yield.
Ross (Aviagen)
Broiler strain that thrive when farmed in alternative poultry production systems, etc. free-range.
Cobb (Cobb Vantress Phils)
Layer strain that is most common and considered as the classic layer breed.
Lohmann (San Miguel)
Layer strain that is generally quiet, suited for alternative rearing systems.
Dekalb White Layers
Layer strain that is well known for large eggs and are highly adaptable.
Babcock White Layers
Problems in the layer industry.
- High cost and shortage of quality feed ingredients and disease control and prevention.
- Substandard management practices.
- Lack of liberal credit and storage facilities, marketing information.
- High breakage of eggs during transport.
- Labor unrest.
The predominant type of ducks used in egg production.
Pateros type of Mallard (itik)
Type of duck used for duck meat in the Philippines.
Muscovy ducks (bibi) and Pekin ducks.
Competitive advantages in the duck industry.
- Simple housing facilities.
- Hardy and highly resistant to common avian diseases.
- Needs less rearing space and shorter brooding period.
- Thrives on almost all kinds of environmental conditions.
- Feeds on a variety of food.
- Lives longer than chickens.
- Used as table eggs, balut, penoy, and itlog na pula.
