Production System Flashcards
vital component of local broiler industry with success depends on the quality of genetic materials used and the flock’s production performance.
Breeder Farm Operation
achieved by grading the sizes of birds that will be entered into a flock.
Flock uniformity
farms that breed, hatch, grow, and market their own products at their own expense.
Integrated grower farms
farms that grow chicken for the integrator
Contract Grower Farms
scheme where a grower agrees a contract with an integrator to grow broilers up to a marketable age (36-42 days)
Integrator provides meat-type chicks, feeds, vaccines, diagnostic laboratory services, and farm planning
Grower provides housing, labor, land, feeding and watering equipment, brooders, water, fuel, lighting, and litter materials
Contract Growing
farms that tie up with integrators or cooperatives
The farm sells the broilers produced at harvest time to integrators and/or cooperatives at a previously agreed price
Contract-to-buy grower farms
farms that buy at the current market and raise their own birds by themselves where they can mix their own feeds
Independent Commercial Grower Farms
farms that produce hatching eggs for companies supplying the Parent Stock (PS)
Contract Breeding Farms
farms that buy PS and sell hatching and/or day-old chicks to commercial growers
Independent or Commercial Breeder Farms-
100,000 or more broilers/harvest
Large Commerical Farms
21,000-99,000 broilers/harvest
Medium Commercial Farms
1,000-20,000 broilers/harves
Small Commercial Farms
not more than 1,000 broilers/harvest
Smallhold/backyard farms
Produces ready-to-lay pullets
Grow-out operation
Produces egg
Laying Operation
