Turkey Breeders

Question 1

what is a hybrid artisan gold look like

Answer 1

• black legs/feet
• darker feathers
• roosts
• exotic flavour

Question 2

what day is hen day egg production

Answer 2

101-124 eggs per hen

Question 3

what is poult production

Answer 3

85 - 106 poults per hen

Question 4

what type of housing do they hae

Answer 4

• litter floors
• smaller pens during the breeding the period (femals numbers per pen relates to insemination capacity )

Question 5

what are the brooding and rearing numbers

Answer 5

0-30 weeks

Question 6

breeding period

Answer 6

30-58 weeks
- males and females kept seperate
- nest control from keeping the females from going broody ( instinct to set eggs)

Question 7

what do you select for toms in breeder canidates

Answer 7

• anatomical defects and body weight
• start three to four times as many toms as required
• group according to size

Question 8

what do they select for with hens

Answer 8

• freedoms from defects
• hourse 25% more hens than required

Question 9

how do you control growth rate in toms and what are the advantages

Answer 9

• feed restriction and low protein
• imporved reproductive capacity and improved feed efficiency

Question 10

what is selected for in hens

Answer 10

• full feed on a low protein pre breeder ration
• feed restriction

Question 11

what is artificial insemination

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

what are lighting programs

Answer 12

• daylength ( light tight barns, early brooding and rearing not as important, reduce daylength in late rearing)

Question 13

what are lighting programs for toms

Answer 13

• less requirement for short daylength
• lit before hens