II Broiler Production Flashcards
POULTRY CLASSIFICATION OF BROILER FARM ACCORDING SIZE
• Large Commercial Farms
• Medium Commercial Farms
• Small Commercial Farms
• Small Hold/Backyard Farms
Farms that produce 100,000 or more broiler per harvest.
Large Commercial Farms
Farms that produces 21,000 - 99,000 broilers per harvest.
Medium Commercial Farms
Farms that produces 1,000 - 20,000 broiler per harvest.
Small Commercial Farms
Farms that produce not more than 100 broilers per harvest
Small Hold/Backyard Farms
6 CLASSIFICATION OF BROILER FARM ACCORDING TO TYPE OF OPERATION
- Integrated Grower Farm
- Contract Grower Farm
- Contract-to-buy Grower Farm
- Independent Commercial Grower Farms
- Contract Breeding Farms
- Independent or Commercial Breeder Farm
are farms that breed, hatch, grow and market their own products at their own expense.
Integrated Grower Farm
are farms that grow chickens for the integrator.
contract with an integrator to grow broilers up to a marketable age of about 36-42 days. the grower is assured of at least 5 batches (crops) a year.
Contract Grower Farm
The INTEGRATOR provides the GROWER.
a. minimum of 10,000 meat type chicks
b. 35,000 kg. of feeds
c. vaccines
d. diagnostic laboratory services
e. farm planning especially to a new applicant
Grower provides:
a. housing
b. labor
c. land
d. watering and feeding equipment
e. brooders
f. water
g. fuel
h. lighting
i. litter materials
this are farms that have tie ups with integrator or cooperatives whereby integrators/cooperatives sell to growers a minimum of 10,000 broiler type chicks and/or feeds at an agreed price.
Contract-to-buy grower farm
are farms that buy broiler chicks at current market price and mixed their own feeds. they raise and market their own produce/harvest.
Independent Commercial Grower Farms
are farms that produce hatching eggs for companies that supply the PARENT STOCK (PS) and feeds. buy back the hatching eggs at an agreed price.
Contract Breeding Farms
are farms that buy PS and sell hatching eggs and/or day-old chicks to commercial growers.
Independent or Commercial Breeder Farm
2 broiler breeding operation it’s success is independent on:
- the quality of genetic materials to used
- the flock’s production performance
the main objective to achieve and maintain is
UNIFORMITY
Physical Characteristics
a. plumage color
b. body conformation
c. relative proportion of body parts
Production Performance
a. body weight
b. growth rate
c. feed conversion efficiency
maybe achieved by grading the sizes of birds that will be entered into the breeding flocks
Flock Uniformity
is best graded at ages 23-28 days old
Sizes of Females
are best graded after 35 days of age
sizes of males
Characterized by integrated operation of companies that dominates the output:
a. DOC’s or day old chicks
b. Feeds
c. Vaccines
d. Laboratory services
e. Farm Planning
f. Technical services
companies that involve in the supply chain structure are;
- San Miguel Food Corp Inc
- Swift Food Inc
- Universal Robina Corp
- Vitarich Corp
- Tyson Agro-ventures Corp
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
