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Poultry Flashcards

1
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What is the chain of laying hens?

A

Grandparent flock lays breeding flock
Breeding flock las pullets which become all female laying flock
These lay the infertile eggs that are for sale

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2
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How long does it take to become laying age?

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16 weeks

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3
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How long are chickens layers?

A

16-70 weeks

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4
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What is the chain for broiler chickens?

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Grandparent flock
Breeding flock
Table birds

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5
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How long are table birds alive for?

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5/6 weeks

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6
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How are chickens sexed?

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Females red

males white

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7
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What types of farm are there for poultry?

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Rearing farm
Laying farm
Broiler farm

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8
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What are pullets?

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Young laying hens before they start laying

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9
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How is the broiler industry different?

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Most intensively farmed
most mechanised
low labour

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10
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What businesses control the layer market?

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Major egg packers

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11
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What business controls th ebroiler industry?

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Processors

Mostly contract production

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12
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What are the 3 main layer breeds?

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Hyline
Lohman
Novogen

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13
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WHat are the two main broiler breeds?

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Avian

Cobb

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14
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What is different about free range?

A

Loose housed

Access outside through popholes during day

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15
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What is the stocking density for broilers?

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14birds/m2

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16
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What is the stocking density fro layers?

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7 birds/m2

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17
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How are turkeys usually housed?

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Indoor

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18
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What is different about ducks and geese?

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Ducks feed in water, geese on land

Geese same colour male and female, ducks dimorphic

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19
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What must ducks have?

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Water trough that they can dunk their heads in

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20
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What is used to bring birds into lay?

A

Extended day lengths

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21
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How much light should broilers have?

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6 hrs

4 hrs continuous

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22
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How much daylight should laying hens get?

A

8hrs

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23
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What kind of lighting are chicks used to?

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Intermittent

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24
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What problems can you get with lighting?

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Can see flickering lights more than humans

need UV light

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25
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How much do ducks weigh at slaughter?

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males 5kg

females 3kg

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26
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How much do broilers weigh at slaughter?

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2.3kg

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27
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How much do turkeys weigh at slaughter?

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7-10kg

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28
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What is important to note about temp in chickens?

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Packed to tight can cause overheating

46 degrees is fatal

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29
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How often are eggs layed?

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Every 22-26 hrs

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30
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What is the basic anatomy cycle of egg laying?

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Yolk from ovary
fertilised in oviduct
Albumin from magnum
shell added in shell gland in uterus
laid via cloaca
31
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How long are eggs incubated for?

32
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What is keel damage caused by?

A

Collisions with furnishings

Low calcium levels

33
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What does keel damage cause?

A

Reduced productivity

34
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What are Welfare problems in laying hens?

A

Cage layer fatigue
Injurous pecking
Keel damage

35
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What does injurous feather pecking cause?

A

Increased feed consumption to keep warm
more death
decreased production

36
Q

When is beak trimming done and why?

A

Before 10 days

less damaging feather pecking

37
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What does beak trimming cause?

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Less eating so slower growth
Acute pain when occurs
sensory deprivation
less active

38
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What is the method of beak trimming used?

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Infrared trimming
more accurate
no open wound
fall off 10 days later

39
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What are the main welfare concerns of broilers?

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Rapid growth rate causing lameness and heart defects
space
pododermatitis - poor litter

40
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What is the max stocking density of broilers?

41
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What are factors for ventilation in poultry?

A

Humidity - wet litter, heat stress
Dusty
High ammonia levels

42
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What does poor ventilation cause in chickens?

A

resp diseases
conjunctivitis
infectious bronchitis

43
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What are the main welfare concerns in broiler breeders?

A

Mating behaviour - agressive

Hunger

44
Q

WHat is normal jungle fowl courtship behaviour?

A 
Feather ruffling
crowing
waltzing
food gifts
high step advance
45
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Why is feed restricted in broiler breeders?

A

Stop fast growth, lameness
increases repro health
reduces mortality

46
Q

What are indicators of hunger and stress?

A 
Hyperactivity
Pacing
Stereotypic pecking
overdrinking
corticosterone
47
Q

How do you make hunger a bit better for the broiler breeders?

A

Environmental enrichment

scattering of food

48
Q

WHen does turkey growth rates flatten?

A

18wks in females

22 wks in males

49
Q

What are welfare problems in turkeys?

A

Foot pad lesions
heat stress
injurous pecking
handling and transport causing injuries

50
Q

What are welfare problems in ducks?

A

Access to open water
injurious pecking
wet litter
Fall on back and cant get up

51
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What are the two diseases associated with poultry meat?

A

Campylobacter

Salmonella

52
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What are the two notifiable diseases in poultry?

A

Newcastle disease

Avian influenza - zoonotic

53
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Who must be informed if notifiable disease?

54
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How are poultry often vaccinated?

A

Course spray

55
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How long do birds spend foraging?

A

60% of time

56
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What causes birds to adjust their feed intake?

A

Energy density eg. more fat than fibre

57
Q

What type of fibre to birds eat?

A

Wheat and barley

58
Q

What are non starch polysaccharides?

A

Indigestible dietary fibre
Can be water soluble or insoluble
enzyme supplement help to digest it so more energy

59
Q

What is used to grind up food in birds?

60
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What does insoluble fibre improve?

A

Increased gizzard weight
better GI tract function
More HCl and enzymes, bile acid

61
Q

How is fibre linked to injurious pecking?

A

More insoluble fibre increases satiety so decreases motivation to forage which decreases injurious feather pecking

62
Q

What provides fat in poultry diet?

A

Soya, recycled veg oil

63
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What is fat good for?

A

Higher egg weight and yolk proportion
better broiler performance
Help with transport of vitamins

64
Q

What is an essential fatty acid in birds?

A

Linoleic acid from omega 3 or omega 6

65
Q

What is important to note with poultry protein?

A

Need to get essential amino acids which can be supplemented in feed
If not then poor performance

66
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What is different about natural diet to artificial diet of poultry?

A

Natural diet would also have worms and insects

but only allowed to be plant based in the UK

67
Q

How is calcium fed to chickens?

A

CaCO3 limestone, and oyster shell

also need vitamin D and phosphorus

68
Q

What form is food given in?

A

Pellets for broilers - all nutrients

mashed feeds for layers as increases time spent feeding so decreases injurious pecking

69
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What must you do if you have more than 50 birds?

A

Register to the DEFRA poultry register

70
Q

What are class A eggs?

A

Part of salmonella flock plan

71
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What must you do if buying chicks?

A

Vaccinate them

72
Q

How must backyard poultry be housed?

A

Outdoors

With shelter, protection, ventilation, perching and space, able to ground peck

73
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What can you feed backyard poultry?

A 
Commercial feed in morning
whole grain in evening
veg matter but not kitchen waste
Mealworm treats
Oystershell grit
74
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What routine treatments are done on backyard poultry?

A

Wing clipping
Beak tipping - top beak clipped to meet lower beak, different to beak clipping
Claw trimming
Bareback saddles for mating to protect feathers

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