Poultry 🐔

• On leghorm-strain pullets farms, birds are raised from hatchling to approximately ______ weeks of age, so pulled growers must provide facilities capable of brooding and growing the pullets. In cases the egg company pays pulled growers based on the number of bird produced or for returns per square foot, and efficiency bonuses may be available

  16 to 17
• A broiler should reach 3.5 to 4.5 pounds of live weight in 6 to 7 weeks and require two of fewer pounds of body weight. Abroiler dresses into a ____-pound ready-to-cook carcass to be marketed whole, by parts,or further-processed

  2 to 3
• Most (95%) turkey production occur under a ________ system and growers are typically paid based on the number of birds produced

  Contact
• The various species of poultry belong to the animal kingdom and to the class ____

  Aves
• Which of the following are unique characteristics poultry possess when compared to other forms of livestock

  Poultry has a higher body temperature
• Quail belong to the order

  Galliformes
• The distinct feather tract ls from which feathers originate and called

  Pterylae
• Which of the 2 skin features are important in regulating the birds body temperature and their development is closely related to the gonadal activit

  Comb and wattles
• Which muscle depresses the wing in its downward motion

  Pectoralis major
• In the fowl, the senses___________ are poorly developed

  Taste and smell
• The lower larynx (syrinx) is the ________

  Voice box
• The fowls circulatory system differs slightly from mammals in that avian red blood cell are _________

  Nucleated
• In which way does the avian long differ from the mammalian lungs

  All of the above
• How do the number of chamer in the avian heart compare to the mammalian heart

  They are the same each have four
• The proventriculus of a fowls a limentary canal is found after the _________

  Ingulvies
• The _____ marks the junction of the small and large intestine

  Cecum
• Which of the following would contain the genetic information supplied by the female chicken

  Blastodisc
• The moment an egg becomes fertilized in the oviduct of the chicken,the spem and Llastodisc merge to become how many cell

  1
• Which of the following poultry diseases is egg transinssible and is unaffected by antibiotics such as penicillin that target bacteria cell wall synthesis

  Mycoplasmosis
• ___________refers to precautions taken to minimize the risk of introducing an infection disease into an animal population

  Biosecurity
• A disease affecting birds as well as many other animal,________ is caused by the multiplication of single called animal (protozoa) primarily in the digestive tract

  Coccidiosis
• Which of the following terms would refer to the frequency of birds displaying sight of a disease within a flock

  Morbidity
• When adding built-up poultry litter material to a composted it four of more flocks have been raised on the litter wha probably needs to be considered to ensure a proper C:N (caebon to nitrogen) ratio?

  Add a source of additional carbon
• When considering the concept and method of poultry genetic selection the _________ method is defined as: a breeder uses a closed flock, continuously selecting the better birds. Each generation, and breeding from them.

  Single line
• Turkey semen can be chemically extended and :

  Used up to 24 hours after collection
• To achieve the most effective wind-chill cooling effect the air velocity in a turned ventilated broiler house will be approximately how fast

  5 to 7 mph
• The soil nutrient value of egg layer manure is assumed to be 1.4% nitrogen, 1% phosphorus are P² O⁵, .6% ccs K²o and 4% calcium all on a dry matter basis of the manure from 125,000 hens over a period of a week (yieding 207 Ib of manure dry matter per 1000 hens each day). After 1 week ( 7 days). How many pounds of nitrogen will be I this nanure

  25875 Ib
• A local backyard poultry producer has 80 production laying hens at her house over the course of a seven day period she had 80% production rate and the hens consumed 93.71 Ib. Of feed. What is the feed conversion p&r dozen egg

  2.51
• A broiler processing facility process a total of 285,485 chicken in one day of operation with an average live weight of 6.14 pounds of birds. The average carcass weight 4.54 pounds with an average breast meat yield per carcass of 20.9% what was the total production of breast meat for this elay of operation

  270,8853 Ibs
• If the daily feed intake of 100 laying hens is 23Ibs and the daily manure output is 27Ibs. What percentage of the manure output is the feed intake

  85.19%