Turkey Breeders Flashcards
1
Q
what is a hybrid artisan gold look like
A
- black legs/feet
- darker feathers
- roosts
- exotic flavour
2
Q
what day is hen day egg production
A
101-124 eggs per hen
3
Q
what is poult production
A
85 - 106 poults per hen
4
Q
what type of housing do they hae
A
- litter floors
- smaller pens during the breeding the period (femals numbers per pen relates to insemination capacity )
5
Q
what are the brooding and rearing numbers
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0-30 weeks
6
Q
breeding period
A
30-58 weeks
- males and females kept seperate
- nest control from keeping the females from going broody ( instinct to set eggs)
7
Q
what do you select for toms in breeder canidates
A
- anatomical defects and body weight
- start three to four times as many toms as required
- group according to size
8
Q
what do they select for with hens
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- freedoms from defects
- hourse 25% more hens than required
9
Q
how do you control growth rate in toms and what are the advantages
A
- feed restriction and low protein
- imporved reproductive capacity and improved feed efficiency
10
Q
what is selected for in hens
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- full feed on a low protein pre breeder ration
- feed restriction
11
Q
what is artificial insemination
A
- all turkeys reproduct through AI
- stud farms (doesnt freeze)
- AI schedule - inseminate before first eggs, more frequent early, weekly thereafter
- initiate periodic twice a week insemmination after 9 weeks of lay
12
Q
what are lighting programs
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- daylength ( light tight barns, early brooding and rearing not as important, reduce daylength in late rearing)
13
Q
what are lighting programs for toms
A
- less requirement for short daylength
- lit before hens
14
Q
lighting programs for hens
A
- lit at 29 to 30 weeks of age
- may increase daylength by 1 or 2 hours later in breeding cycle
15
Q
broodiness prevention
A
- walk through flock
- use semi trap nests
- frequent egg collection
- remove hens from nests
- uniform light
