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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: What are some of the of litter in a poultry house? (2)Answer: 1. /Cushion 2. Temperature Control Question: the feeding program for broiler breeders from week #4 through week #20Answer: Skip a day for gain control (restricted) Question: T/F: lights are more efficient (lumens per watt) than fluorescent lightsAnswer: False Question: T/F: Laying hens lay the majority of eggs before noonAnswer: True Question: T/F: Red contact lenses are a very good solution for cannibalism in housesAnswer: Question: T/F: 130 volt light bulbs last longer than the 120 watt bulbsAnswer: True Question: T/F: "Conventional" poulty houses have fans for and artificial light for all of the bird's light requirementsAnswer: False Question: T/F: Laying hens require 0.5 to one foot of light for sexual stimulationAnswer: True Question: T/F: Pelleted feeds are routinely feds to , meat-type turkeys and leghorn laying hens.Answer: Question: T/F: The Foster Farms Company is a good of a vertically integrated poultry company.Answer: Question: T/F: By selecting the least (genetics) birds and using the low wattage lights, it is possible to eliminate the need for beak trimming leghom pullets.Answer: Question: If your pullets hatch July 1st, there is no need for a lighting program to control sexual development Answer: True Question: If you are vaccinating chickens in the United States that will live to adulthood, you must include the following diseases in the program.Answer: 1. Mereks 2. Question: This is a disease vaccine that must be at the hatchery. The vaccine is stored in liquid nitrogen.Answer: Question: The vaccine for what must be administered by the wing web Stay away from the face.Answer: Fowl Question: What are the 5 critical factors that we must for in a commercial incubator?Answer: 1. Temperature 2. Relative Humidity 3. Air Exchange 4. Position of egg 5. Turning Question: watering systems are most often used on commercial poultry ranches because of what. (advantage)Answer: Low Transmission Question: The following is a characteristic of your ranch or egg business that may the strain of chicken you use for your company: Answer: FIND Question: The following are examples of performance traits that are controlled by genetics in the White Chicken:Answer: 1. 2. Egg Size Question: When your newly hatched chickens came out of the , the moisture loss was only 10%. What will happen to the chicks?Answer: Question: A "standard flat" holds ___ eggs.Answer: 30 Question: A ______ is a male turkey of any age.Answer: Question: What is the term used to describe the extra perfomance of the offspring (AB) of dissimilar flocks "A" and "B"?Answer: Vigor Question: The _______ joint is located at the junction of the shank (metatarsus) and the drumstick (tibia).Answer: Question: What are some of the advantages of raising replacement pullets in cages that have led most to choose cage over floor housing systems?Answer: 1. Less Piling 2. No 3. No Coccidiostat Cost Question: Your farm is a severe cannibalism problem. What are some of the possible triggers (causes) of the cannibalism problem?Answer: 1. Disease 2. External parasites 3. Lighting intensity 4. duration Question: You are getting ready to select the best strain of White Leghorn for your / business. What are of some of the genetically controlled traits Answer: 1. Rate of Lay 2. Temperment 3. Feed Conversion 4. Quality Question: A _________ poultry house which has 2 levels, the upper level is for the birds and the lower level is for manure storage. Answer: high Question: What is the added performance achieved when two dissimilar strains or breeds are crossed together (i.e. Cobb female and Vantress male)Answer: Hybrid Question: Litter has more than one . What are some of the functions:Answer: 1. Temperature control 2. Question: A sexually mature male turkey is called a _______. This term is often used to refer to wild turkeys.Answer: Question: The _______ joint is located between the shank (foot) and the drumstick.Answer: Question: _______ is the physical form of feed fed to laying birds. Large particle size limestone and oyster shell can only be included in form of feed.Answer: Question: What characteristic of your /ranch can effect your selection of a Leghorn strain?Answer: Where eggs are marketed, restaurant or supermarket is dependent on size of egg and unit score Question: T/F: White leghorn pullets are fed three rations in the 0-18 week .. 1. Starter 2. Grower and 3. FinisherAnswer: False Question: T/F: (eggs) can be used for further processing. Answer: Question: T/F: "Conventional- chicken houses utilize a combination of natural light and artificial light and have adjustable curtain sides to utilize natural ventilation.Answer: True Question: T/F: Foster Farrns is known as ail *integrated* poultry company it uses a combination of white comish chickens and dark comish chickens.Answer: False Question: T/F: The turkey industry uses the terms "tom" and "hen", respectively, to to males and females of any age. Answer: True Question: T/F: Adding additional salt to the ration may help reduce cannibalism, but it also adversely effect egg shell quality.Answer: true Question: T/F: "Specs" is a cannibalism device which is not used in the commercial broiler, egg and turkey industries, but is often used for pheasants raised for sport. Answer: True Question: T/F: Cal Poly's 1992 project with "red contact lens" proved that the lens are an effective method of controlling cannibalism, but the method is not an acceptable solution because of eye irritations. Answer: True Question: T/F: Male and turkeys are sent to the processing plant at the same age approximately 19 weeks of age.Answer: False Question: T/F: In the egg lab, you used five observations to assign a grade to each egg. What were some of those observations?Answer: 1. Shell Cleanliness 2. Air cell size 3. Shell Quality 4. Yolk 5. Defect Bloods Question: T/F: Evaporative cooling to cool birds works well in all geographic regions including high humidity areas like the portion of the U.S.Answer: Question: T/F: "Physiological Zero" means that hatching eggs should be held at zero degrees F. prior to placing them in the . Answer: Question: T/F: By noon, laying hens have laid over 80% of the eggs that will be for the day.Answer: True Question: T/F: Fluorescent are more efficient (lumens per watt) than incandescent light bulbs. Answer: Question: T/F: The highest rate of hatchability occurs when egg , minus chick weight, minus shell weight, is equal to 11.5% moisture lossAnswer: Question: Turkey eggs will in 35 eggs. Answer: Question: T/F: Approx. 3/4 of all are further processed (past whole body) Answer: True Question: T/F: The "finisher" ration is the last feed fed to broilers, turkeys and White Leghorn pullets.Answer: False Question: T/F: A High rise chicken house is usually 10 stories tall with birds on all levels of the building. Answer: False Question: T/F: A "grower" is fed after the "starter" and to the "finisher" in broiler nutrition programs.Answer: Question: T/F: Approximately fifty percent of all eggs are processed (Out of the shell)Answer: False Question: T/F: When one percent oyster shell is added to the , the calcium level will increase by .38 percentAnswer: Question: After you vaccinate a chicken or turkey, the antibody level in the blood for that disease will peak in six .Answer: (6 weeks) Question: The primary effect of Newcastle Disease is a total disruption of the system, similar to AIDS in humans.Answer: (Gumboro) Question: Marek's Disease will cause leg paralysis as well as tumors the body. Answer: True Question: When milk is added to the "stock solution", the content of the water is inactivated by the protein in the milk, therefore, protecting the virus particles.Answer: True Question: _______ are a physical form of feed prepared by first pelleting a mash feed and then crushing the pellets into a granular consistency. Answer: Question: The broiler industry sells three whole body products:_______ (smallest carcass of the three), broilers and roasters.Answer: Game Hen Question: ___________ is the surgical removal of the combAnswer: Question: In a few words describe a "finisher" :Answer: Last feed fed, high fat/calories for Question: During incubation, the desired weight (water) loss is ____%Answer: 11.5% Question: Advantage of a (age) incubator:Answer: uses heat from older eggs to warm eggs=reduces power bill Question: When fertile eggs are held at a temperature ___ degrees F., cell division will occur.Answer: 78 Question: Fertilized turkey eggs require ____ days to hatch (setter and hatcher combined)Answer: Question: List four (4) different observations that tell you that a female chicken is not laying eggs this week:Answer: 1. Comb Regression 2. shaped vent 3. Xanthophyll Pigment in Face/vent 4. Molting Question: The power is out. No generator. Your 1,000 egg is in the garage. What to do?Answer: Open it up! Question: When the moisture loss incubation is too low, the chicks will: Answer: Be chicks--omphalitis Question: Birds are 30 weeks old. ______ is the best indicator that one bird has laid more eggs than the other birds.Answer: Color (white!) Question: Tell me four distinctly different observations used during the candling procedure that tell you that an egg is AA , A grade, B grade or lossAnswer: 1. Shell Quality 2. Defects 3. Yolk Shadow 4. Shell Question: T/F:"Dirty" eggs (blood, yolk, etc) can be sold to the , but they must be labeled as "Stains and dirties"Answer: Question: T/F: "Evaporative cooling" is not an effective method of cooling poultry in areas of the U.S. the relative humidity is very high in summer monthsAnswer: True Question: As long as eggs are held (stored) at 60 degrees F. and 55-60% relative humidity, they can be stored for up to seven days without an adverse on hatachability. Answer: Question: T/F: Research has that it is absolutely essential to turn eggs at lease once each other to attain maximum (%) hatchability.Answer: (6-8x) Question: T/F: A is a devise that increases and decreases the light output from incandesecent light bulbsAnswer: Question: T/F: Poultry farmers often provide their chicks 24 hours of light the first 3 days to their sexual development.Answer: Question: T/F: When the light for layers comes on at 4:00 AM, birds will lay the majority of their eggs noon.Answer: True Question: T/F: Fluorescent lights are more efficient (lumens per watt) than lights.Answer: Question: T/F: The "Blastodisc" becomes the "Blastoderm" once conception (sperm penetrates the female egg) has place.Answer: Question: T/F: A embryo's heart starts to beat on the 10th day of incubation.Answer: Question: T/F: The longest day (most of light) occurs in the month of June. Answer: Question: The broiler industry produces three whole body birds: Cornish game hen, fryer, and _________.Answer: Question: The __________ ration is first ration fed, contains the highest protein level and is usually the highest cost rationAnswer: Question: _________ and __________ are ingredients that can be used to supply xanthophyll pigment.Answer: Corn and corn gluten Question: The broiler and turkey industries use feeds. Briefly tell me one reason they use pelleted feeds. Answer: feed efficiency; holds ingredients together.
Question: _________ is the natural mixture of males and females at the hatchery. Unsexed.Answer: run. Question: Under ideal conditions, there should be a ____ week spread between vaccination procedures.Answer: Question: If a disease is ________ in your geographic location, that means that the disease is prevalent there and you should vaccinate. Answer: Question: A one percent change in the supply of eggs will result in a ___ cents per dozen change in the a farmer receives for their eggs. Answer: Question: Nipple watering systems have many advantages that have farmers to use them. Provide some examples of these advantages:Answer: 1. Overhead (above ) 2. Less Disease
Question: Replacement pullets usually are fed 2 pounds starters, 4 pounds grower, and then change to developer #1. What would be the justification for the feeding schedule?Answer: The birds are too /heavy--body weight Question: T/F: The eye drop method is the most and safest method of administering fowl pox vaccine.Answer: (Wing web) Question: T/F: If a bird has a high 'titer,'for Newcastle. it has a high of antibodies for that diseaseAnswer: True Question: It is OK to feed rations to young chicks and poults (1st week of life)Answer: Question: Name the disease associated: , vaccine available, egg transmitted. "Crazy chick" disease and "epidemic tremor". Cataracts and severe egg production drop in older birds.Answer: AE Question: Name the disease associated: Virus, vaccine available, vaccination must occur in hatchery, leg paralysis (sciatic nerve involvement) and tumor .Answer: Merek's Question: Name the disease associated: , vaccine available, (water, spray, eye drop, etc.) Affects the respiratory system, repro system and the nervous system (neck curving)Answer: Newcastle Question: Name the associated: Virus, vaccine. Symptoms are "femur tip necrosis" and "malabsorption syndrome"Answer: Viral Question: Name the disease associated: Protozoan disease, affects the digestive system. Control with feed additive, or putting birds in cages.Answer: Question: Name the disease associated: Virus, vaccination available. Respiratory with bloody mucous clot in the trachea. Birds extend their necks in an effort to the mucous clot. Answer: Question: Name the associated: Bacterial disease that affects many systems. Most often associated with turkeys because of "bell" watering systems.Answer: Question: Name the associated: Viral disease, vaccination available. Causes scab-like lesions on face, comb wattles and possibly in the trachea. Answer: Fowl Question: Name the disease associated: Affects the respiratory and reproductive systems. Egg transmitted. If breeders test positive, they can no longer be used as breeders. Greatest $$$ loss of all . Attacks the air sacs Answer: M.g. Question: Name the disease associated: Virus, vaccine available. The virus attacks the Bursa resulting in an immune system. AIDS like conditionAnswer: Question: Name the disease associated: Bacterial disease that extreme swelling of the head. Bird discomfort. Significant drop in feed intake, egg production and weight gain.Answer: Question: List five observations (factors to consider) when a carcass "A", "B", "C", etc."Answer: 1. wholesomeness 2. 3.,4.,5., FIND ANSWERS Question: _______ is a poor choice of a grain (energy source) if you want to produce a yellow bodied broiler or a dark yellow/orange egg yolk. Answer: FIND Question: ________ is a good source of xanthophyll pigmentAnswer: Question: _________ is a disease that affects the respiratory and reproductive systems and occasionally the urinary system.Answer: Question: Under ideal conditions, there should be a __ week interval between administrations.Answer: Question: An "A" grade carcass can have the _____ and the __________ removed.Answer: tail and the tip of the Question: What are the of nipple watering systems that have led the poultry industry to switch to their use with the exception of growing turkeys.Answer: 1. Less mess (less labor) 2. Less Question: T/F: Chicken with feathers (1 or more) longer than 1/2 can not be graded, "A", etc. They must be sent back for "additional processing."Answer: Question: T/F: that have a cut through the pectoral (breast) muscle are graded "B" or "C" depending on the depth and length of the cut.Answer: Question: T/F: : leg paralysis (one leg forward, one leg back) and tumors throughout the body. Diagnosis: Marek's Disease.Answer: True Question: T/F: Infectious disease interferes with the immune response (AIDS like) in infected birds.Answer: True Question: T/F: Viral Arthritis sounds like a skeletal disease; however, the virus actually attacks the system.Answer: True Question: The USDA that a chicken carcass must be cooled from 105 degrees F. to 40 degrees F. In no more than ___hours.Answer: 4 Question: What are some of the functions of in a floor chicken or turkey house?Answer: 1. Carcass 2. Water Absorption 3. Temperature Regulation Question: Flies prefer to lay their eggs in organic matter (ie feces or feed) is approximately ____ moisture content. Answer: 35% Question: A poultry building that uses all artificial light and uses fans to provide for ventilation is called a _________ house. Answer: Light and Temperature Question: What are some of the reasons for classifying an egg as a ?Answer: 1. Rot 2. Leaker 3. Large Blood Question: Poultry are either grown within a building (confinement or they are grown on the ________.Answer: Question: Provide an example of a specific type of or stage of a bird's life where feed restriction would be necessary?Answer: Breeder Question: The ______ is a physical form of feed where a mash is compacted and extruded into small cylindrical pieces which vary in length, diameter and hardness. Answer: Question: If the supply of eggs available to the market drops by one , the price a farmer receives for their eggs usually increases by ___ cents per dozen.Answer: 5 Question: The stock solution will contain water, vaccine, and _____.Answer: Question: Your birds have a viral disease that is causing respiratory symptoms, more specifically a bloody mucous clot in the and neck extension. Diagnosis:Answer: L.T. Question: Chicks have "crazy chick or "Star gazing". Diagnosis:Answer: AE Question: This respiratory disease has been economically devastating through the years to both the chicken and turkey because it affects their air sacs and causes high condemnation rates. Diagnosis:Answer: Question: T/F: When processing broilers, the process is done in the "clean" side of the processing plant.Answer: False Question: T/F: Coryza is a bacterial disease that causes extreme of the head and face. Answer: Question: T/F: Coccidiosis is a bacterial disease spread by dust Answer: False Question: T/F: Intermittent lighting of laying hens may prevent the egg size from too large. Answer: True Question: T/F: Linoleic acid is one of the amino acids.Answer: Question: T/F: Feeding levels of methionine to laying hens will increase the egg size Answer: True Question: T/F: Viral arthritis affect the digestive , reducing the bird's ability to absorb nutrients from the small intestine into the blood stream. Answer: Question: T/F: Mother nature uses decreasing day length and decreasing night time temperatures to a natural molt. Answer: True Question: vertical integration. What happened when a poultry company expands vertically? Provide examples.Answer: A company does more than one phase activity/level of the buisness. For example Foster Farms.
-Broiler Breeders
-Hatcheries
-Feed -Processing Plants Question: When Birds are vaccinated, the antibody level for the (vaccine) will reach a peak in approximately ___ weeks.Answer: 3 Question: ______ is an example of an egg transmitted disease. Mom can pass the disease (via the egg) to the chick/poult. Answer: M.g. Question: Name the disease: Protozoal that does not occur of birds are kept in cages. Answer: Coccidiosis Question: Name the disease: Virus disease that causes scab-like . Only wing-web vaccination is effective.Answer: Question: Name the disease: Viral disease that the brain. "Epidemic tremor" "star gazing" "Crazy Chick"Answer: A.E. Question: List 4 controlled factors:Answer: 1. Shell Quality 2. Shell Color 3. Egg Size 4. Question: T/F: Forgiveness is when management makes an error (ie feed or water problems) will this bird recover quickly or remain out of .Answer: Question: What strain has the best egg quality?Answer: Question: Internal egg quality is by what three things?
Answer: 1. Haugh units 2.Bloods 3. Meat Question: T/F: Increase the of light at 18 weeks of age to stimulate the birds to lay eggsAnswer: True Question: When water : the stock solution should be consumed with ___hours.Answer: 2 Question: T/F: Some eggs will in the range of 95-104 degrees F.Answer: True Question: T/F: require a length of 28 days for incubation.Answer: False (21), Turkeys require 28 Question: T/F: Wet Bulb measures humidityAnswer: Question: affects what two things?Answer: 1. Weight loss 2. Chick's ability to get out of the Question: The optimum of oxygen is ___ percent.Answer: 21% Question: What are three things that moisture loss?Answer: 1. egg quality 2. temperature 3. length of storage Question: What disease causes more economic loss than any disease?Answer: M.g. Question: T/F: is a mandatory vaccination.Answer: False Question: Coccidiosis can be controlled by feeding a coccidiostat, ______________ or _____________.Answer: birds in cages or in vaccinating in the feed @ 4 days of age. Question: What are three factors inherent in your /facility?Answer: 1. Housing Type 2. Where the eggs are 3. Flock Scheduling Question: A case of eggs containsAnswer: 360 eggs or 30 Question: A _________ is an egg that has a crack in the shell but no tear in the shell membranes, therefore, none of the eggs contents are leaking.Answer: Question: Each female is genetically programmed to lay eggs on a specific number of consecutive days. This number is referred to as her _______.Answer: Question: The root word brood refers to ______________________________.Answer: Supplemental Question: When a female becomes _________ prolactin is released from her pituitary gland resulting in changes to her anatomy, physiology and psychology. Answer: Question: ______________ is an amino acid that is produced in large quantities at a low cost; therefore, it is used as a nearly pure feed ingredient in poultry rations.Answer: Question: When are artificially inseminated, the female is inseminated how often? the male?Answer: : 6-8 days
male: 2 days Question: _____________ is a disease that is egg-transmitted. The hen can pass the disease to the chick or the poult.Answer: Question: __________ and ______________ are diseases vaccinated for in all chickens reaching adulthood in the US.Answer: Newcastle and Question: Coccidiosis can be controlled by feeding a coccidiostat, _________________________ or __________________.Answer: birds in cages or vaccinating in the feed at 4 days of age. Question: ____________ and ____________ are feed ingredients that need to be limited because we each too much may have any adverse effect on the bird or the product we eat. Answer: Fish meal and meal Question: The vaccine for __________ must be administered via the wing web method. Eye drop, spray and water vaccination methods will result in disease symptoms.Answer: Fowl Question: What is typically true of "marco ?Answer: Fed as a percentage of the ration and feed a ingredient. (oyster shell for calcium) Question: T/F: When a chicken "bleaches", she will lose the yellow color in her feet first.Answer: (vent?) Question: T/F: The commercial poultry industry stores Marek's disease vaccine in liquid nitrogen and administers the vaccine at the .Answer: Question: T/F: Broiler breeders will have their feed intake restricted from the fourth week of their life they reach the end of their useful life.Answer: Question: T/F: A "capon" is a castrated male .Answer: Question: T/F: To good performance, poultry rations must contain the following vitamins: A, B, C, D, E, and K.Answer: Question: T/F: Methionine and Cystine are the only amino acids that contain .Answer: Question: T/F: Rations for laying hens contain more per pound than rations fed to meat-type turkeys.Answer: Question: T/F: The "Crude Protein" content of a feed ingredient is a better indicator of nutritional value for poultry than the acid profile".Answer: False Question: T/F: Testosterone the feathers on a male chicken's back to be pointed. The same feathers on the females are rounded. Answer: Question: T/F: The egg is produced in the uterus.Answer: True Question: T/F: Poultry have a rapid pulse rate, up to 300 per minute while at rest. Answer: Question: T/F: Foster farms feeds their meat-type four rations: "Prestarter," "Starter," "Grower" and Developer." Answer: False Question: If you feed your birds _____________, it means that they can have all the feed that they want.Answer: Ad Question: _____________ is an example of an amino acid that contains sulphur.Answer: Question: _____________ is an example of an amino acid that is produced in large enough quantities at a low enough price that is used in poultry rations as a nearly pure feed ingredient.Answer: Question: _____________ is the number one vegetable protein supplement most often used in poultry rations.Answer: Soybean Question: When a female chicken "bleaches", she will lose the xanthophyll (yellow) pigment in her ________ first and the tops of her toes last.Answer: Question: A _____________ house is a building that contains the necessary appliances to provide supplemental heat for chicks, poults and ducklings. Answer: Question: A half case (cube) will contain ____________ eggs.Answer: 180 eggs/15 Question: An egg that has a hair-line crack in the shell but is not leaking is a called a ____________Answer: Question: A cockerel is a male chicken that is _____________ one year of age.Answer: less Question: __________ are a physical form of feed prepared by first pelleting a mash and then crushing the pellets into a granular consistency.Answer: Question: Cal Poly is a ____________ for foster farms. We take care of their birds. For a fee, we provide our facility, student labor and electricity. Answer: Grower Question: What is a of a "starter" ration?Answer: 1st feed fed, highest cost or highest Question: To avoid giving birds fowl pox, they must have the vaccine administered by the ______________ method of administration.Answer: Wing Question: All chickens in the U.S. living to adulthood will be vaccinated for the following disease: 1.________________ 2. ________________Answer: 1. 2. AE
Question: The _______________ content of any substance is calculated by first determining the nitrogen level and then multiplying by 6.25.Answer: Protein Question: Why do rations for white leghorn laying hens contain fewer than rations for broilers or turkeys?Answer: We dont want them to have a Question: What distinguishes a mineral as "macro" or ? Answer: is fed as a percentage of the ration, not a proportion. Question: Under what circumstances would you price out a feed ?Answer: 1. None of that ingredient in the mill
2. To determine the value of possible new Question: Estrogen will have the anatomical or physiological effects on a female chicken:Answer: 1. Widens spread 2. Female feathering (rounded)
Question: T/F: According to the USDA, all eggs containing any size spot must be classified as a "loss" (inedible)Answer: Question: T/F: A properly formulated "starter" contains more crude protein than a turkey starter. Answer: Question: T/F: Xanthophyll provides no nutrient value to the birds.Answer: True Question: T/F: Fat (vegetable oil) approximately 1550 calories per pound. Answer: Question: T/F: "Finisher" rations contain more calories per pound and a lower percent crude protein than rations.Answer: Question: T/F: The "gross energy" value of a feed is a poor indicator of the feeding value of that substance, when fed to poultry. Answer: True Question: T/F: Meat and Bone meal is not only a good of protein but it contains calcium as well as phosphorous.Answer: Question: T/F: Poultry raised on the floor have a slightly dietary requirement for Vitamin B and Vitamin K.Answer: Question: T/F: If the ceca were surgically removed, the growth rate of poultry, especially kept in cages, would be significantly reduced.Answer: False Question: T/F: The proventriculus the same function as the stomach in pigs and humans. Answer: Question: _____________ is a young immature chicken weighing not more than two pounds ready to cook weight. A meal for one or two people.Answer: Cornish Game Question: ____________ is a term commonly applied to the loss of of yellow pigment from the skin and other external body parts of female chickens following the onset of lay.Answer: Question: __________________ is a term used to describe the stocking of production units with birds of essentially the same age, to prevent the transmission of disease from older to younger birds.Answer: All in All Question: A _____________ is a device used in poultry house to provide supplemental heat.Answer: Question: Intermittent of egg production birds can have the following beneficial effect:Answer: 1. decreased egg size 2. power bill 2. calming effect on birds Question: Too much intensity (too many foot candles) will: Answer: 1. increase power bill 2. cannibalism Question: A ____________ is a device that will turn off the lights at sunup and turn the lights on at sundown.Answer: Question: What are two of feathers?Answer: 1. 2. carcass protection Question: The _________is one of the structures capable of doing stomach like functions in the digestive system of poultry.Answer: Question: You could surgically remove the _____________ of domesticated poultry and have very little effect on the digestion/absorption of food.Answer: Question: When "candling" eggs, there are four major observations to make to determine (AA, A, B, or loss/inedible): Answer: 1. Shell Quality 2. Yolk Shadow 3. Defects 4. Air cell Question: T/F: The for replacement pullets should be increased from zero to 18 weeks of age to stimulate early egg production.Answer: Question: T/F: The day of the year occurs in june.Answer: Question: T/F: When raising replacement pullets on the floor (no cage), the hours of artificial light should be split evenly between the morning and .Answer: False Question: T/F: Poultry lay the of their eggs after the noon hour. Answer: Question: T/F: Fluorescent lights are the most lighting fixtures for poultry houses. Answer: Question: T/F: If you purchase a 130 volt rated incandescent bulb in a 120 volt source, the useful life of the bulb will be increased significantly.Answer: Question: T/F: The "medullary" bone is a square bone located between the femur and the tibia.Answer: False Question: T/F: The urinary system of a poultry two tri-lobed kidneys and two ureters which terminate in the "cloaca"Answer: Question: T/F: The egg is manufactured in the magnum.Answer: False Question: T/F: Eggs with low "Haugh Unit" scores contain less water than eggs with high scores.Answer: True Question: T/F: A "checked" must be discarded and not used for food.Answer: Question: How do you calculate percent ? Answer: start #-end #/ # Question: How do you calculate avg. body ? Answer: Lbs of wt./ # Question: How do you feed conversion?Answer: Lbs feed/lbs live Question: The __________ ration is fed after the starter and prior to the developer or finisher ration.Answer: Question: A ______________ is a sexually mature male turkey.Answer: Question: _________________ is the term given to the better performance achieved when crossing two different strains of broiler breedersAnswer: Vigor Question: The ________ is the joint located between the foot and the drumstickAnswer: Question: When spray vaccinating, use only ___________ water in the sprayer. Answer: . Question: What are 2 disease that cause damage to the both the respiratory and the reproductive system?Answer: and newcastle Question: List 4 factors that have caused the consumption of broilers to more than triple in the last 40 :Answer: 1. Fast food 2. improved health perception 3. further conivence 4. Low Cost Question: The production of poultry is greatest in the _____ region of the US.Answer: Question: Consumption of eggs has increased from 228 per person to 268 this year because of what two ?Answer: 1. improved health perception 2. fast Question: Conception takes place in the __________(section of the oviduct).Answer: Question: __________ is the primary means of cooling a chickens body.Answer: Question: Poultry's urinary system lacks ( as compared with human anatomy): 1.______________ 2. _________________Answer: 1. urethra 2. Question: Chickens in the _______ class have feathers on their shanks. These feathers extend all the way to the ground.Answer: Question: How does the the respiratory system in poultry from other animals?Answer: 1. They lack a diaphragm to aid in 2. they have 9 air sacs Question: What happens when the follicle does not tear along the stigma (suture)?Answer: find Question: of eggs dropped (345 to 228) drastically after WW11. Why?Answer: 1. Life changes 2. Health concerns (cholesterol) Question: Poultry are classified as monogastric animals even though they have 3 anatomical structures, proventriculus, __________ and _______, that do stomach like functions.Answer: crop and Question: How is the repro system in a male chicken from males of other animals? What does that tell you about poultry semen?Answer: The testis are the body. the semen is heat tolerant. Question: A day old turkey is called a ________.Answer: Question: A female egg layer that has reached the end of her useful life is called a ______________.Answer: fowl Question: T/F: Frying chickens are with hormones in the first week of their life to promote weight gain.Answer: Question: T/F: The egg shell is in the magnum.Answer: Question: T/F: In both male and female chickens, testosterone causes the comb and to grow Answer: True Question: T/F: Poultry eat less than human beings when the daily feed consumption is expressed as a percentage of body Answer: Question: T/F: The end products of the repro, and urinary systems all flow into an anatomical structure called the cloaca. Answer: Question: T/F: When chickens and turkeys are processed, the kidneys are not removed from the body .Answer: Question: T/F: Poultry normally only have one functional and oviduct.Answer: True Question: T/F: reach the desired body weight at approximately 12 weeks of age. Answer: Question: T/F: The air sacs in actually extend into the skeletal systemAnswer: True Question: T/F: Unlike other farm , poultry have two ceca. Answer: Question: T/F: In , the foot is made up of only one bone. Answer: True Question: T/F: The hen-housed rate is always a higher percentage than the hen-day production rate. Answer: Question: T/F: In chickens, the diameter of the large intestine is 3 times as great as the of the small intestine. Answer: False
Question: What are the 3 whole body products for the broiler ?Answer: Broiler, Cornish Game Hen, Question: What are 4 processed products?Answer: Hot Dogs, Corn Dogs, Nuggets, Chicken Question: Advantages of a contracted grower?Answer: Risk Question: Advantages of contracting a ? Answer: Increased flexibility and use money elsewhere Question: Forms of compensation for growers. Answer: Per bird, Per , Per week Question: Time required for broilers. Answer: Cornish-3.5 wks, Fryer-5.5 wks, Retail Fryer-6.5 wks, Roaster-8.5 weeks Question: Meat get 4 rations. What are they?Answer: Prestarter, , Grower, Finisher Question: What are the 2 types of feeders?Answer: Pan Feeder, Feeder Question: 2 types of watering systems?Answer: Nipples, Question: What are some factors that affect Haugh unit ?Answer: , Shell Quality |
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