Livestock And Poultry PRODUCTION Operations Flashcards
Kinds of Poultry
Chicken Hatchery
Breeder Farm Operation
Broiler Operation
Layer Operation
Organic Farming
Farms that breed, hatch, grow, and market their own products at their own expense
Integrated grower farms
3 types of Broiler Operations
- Integrated Growing
- Independent Growing
- Contract Growing
Farms that grow chicken for the integrator. They grow broilers to about marketable age which is 36 to 42 days
Contract grower farms
The integrator provides the grower a minimum of
10,000 chick’s
35,000 kg feeds, vaccines
The grower provides
Housing
Labor
Feeding
Watering equipment
Brooders
Fuel
Lighting
Farms that have tie up with integrators or cooperatives. They buy and sell Broiler chickens at an agreed price
Contract-to-buy grower farms
Farms that buy Broiler chickens at the current market price and mix their own feeds they also sell these broilers once they grow
Independent commercial grower farns
Farms that produce hatching eggs for companies that supply the parent stock
Contract Breeding Farms
Farms that buy Parent stock and sell hatching eggs or day old chick’s to commercial growers
Independent or Commercial Breeder Farms
Farms that produce 100,000 or more broilers per harvest
Large commercial Farms
Farms that produce 21,000-99,000 per harvest
Medium commercial farms
Farms that produce 1000-20,000 broilers per harvest
Small commercial farms
Farms that do not produce more than 1000 broilers per harvest
Smallhold/backyard farms
Operation where an informal agreement between the farmer and owner where the farmer is the one the grows the chick’s until marketable.
Grow-out Operation
Common chicken layer breed in the world
Lohmann Layers
Who bred the Lohmann layers?
Lohmann Tierzucht
Very popular breed used for egg production in the Philippines
Dekalb White Layers
What makes dekalb layers suitable for commercial farming?
Mild temperament
Advantages of Dekalb white layers
Good livability
Large number of eggs laid
Good egg size
High quality eggs produced
Dekalb white layers eggs weigh an average of
63.1 grams
Layers known for their large eggs, adaptable to climate conditions, and calm temperament
Babcock White Layers
Organic breeds from Israel
Kabir
Organic breed in France that is bred for their delicious flavor, strong disease resistance, robust sizes
SASSO breed
System that gradually encourages duck to feed whatever they find in the fiels
Herding System
Ducks are raised in complete confinement
Confinement System
Ducks are freed for a certain time to feed on snails, insects, weeds
Pasturing system
How long are ducks pasturized
5 months
When are ducks confined?
When they start laying eggs
Fertile eggs are incubated for____ the transferred to the hatchery for the remaining _____
18 days
3 days
Produces day old chicks
Chick Hatchery
Operation paired with chick hatchery
Breeder Farm Operation
The contract grower is assured of at least _____ batches per year
5
For a chicken to be sold organic, it must follow the
Organic foods production act of 1990
How do you determine feeds that are organic
If the feeds contain grains that us grown in the soil free of pesticide and fertilisers for a period of 3 years