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
Grows chicks until they hatch their egg
Grow-Lay Operation
one of the most common layer breeds in the Philippines and the rest of the world
Lohmann layers
another one of the very popular layer breeds for egg production in the Philippines.
Produced by Hendrix ISA
The most suitable layers for raising in the Philippines
Advantages: they have an excellent, mild, temperament
Generally quiet and suited also for alternative poultry rearing systems (backyard chicken farming, enriched cages, free-range chicken farming)
Characteristics: good livability, large number of eggs laid, good egg size, high quality eggs
The best option for commercial framing of broilers in the Philippines
Dekalb white layer
another breed of layers that is prolific in the Philippines and are known for their large eggs
highly adaptable chickens and perform well in varied climatic conditions
calm temperament
Babcock white layers
Organic breed from israel
Kabir
France, bred for their delicious taste, robust sizes, strong disease resistance, with certification of word class quality poultry meat which embodies real chicken taste
Sasso breed
young ducks are trained to go around the field to take advantage of feed particles available on the ground
Herding system
at night, ducklings are kept in grower houses while they are driven out to the rice fields in the morning
when laying starts, they are kept in confinement throughout the laying period
Pasturing system
ducks are raised in complete confinement
Confinement system
