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ANPR 367 poultry production exam 1a 40 gram day old chick will eventually weigh how much in just 6 weeks? - correct answer ✔✔5 lbs (2.3
kg)
How long does it take for chicken to eventually reach 5 lbs? - correct answer ✔✔6 weeks
What is todays average weight of a broiler chicken? - correct answer ✔✔5.3 lbs
What is the FCR (feed conversion ratio) of today's broilers? - correct answer ✔✔1.7 lbs of feed for every
1 pound of weight on the chicken
How are advances possible in the poultry industry? - correct answer ✔✔Continual improvements in...
-Genetics
-Nutrition
-Biosecurity
-Feed manufacture
-Management
How are continual advances in the poultry industry possible - correct answer ✔✔Research and
development (land grant universities) (wvu) USDA
What are the three main reasons people consume chicken? - correct answer ✔✔1. Cheap = low
production cost = low retail cost
2. Dietary health concerns (high amounts of essential nutrients and low calories)
3. Convenience - increased further processing
Why are poultry products cheap? - correct answer ✔✔Vertical integration (single profit center -
ownership)
, What are the steps vertical integration? - correct answer ✔✔Feed ingredients go to the feed mill - feed
mill pelleted food gots to the parent stock (parent stock comes from primary breeders) eggs from parent
stock go to the hatchery - the day old chicks then go to the grow out house (2,500 broilers) - dead
broilers go to the processing plant - and finally become processed into a marketable product. The offal
blood and feather go to the rendering plant which are then turned into by-products and sent back to the
feed mill
Which steps of the vertical integration process are company owned? - correct answer ✔✔Hatchery,
Processing plant, rendering plant, feed mill, and the marketable product
Which steps of the vertical integration process are owned by contract growers - correct answer
✔✔Parent stock and the grow out house
What is the integrator? - correct answer ✔✔The company ("tyson")
What things in the poultry production process are the integrators responsible for? - correct answer
✔✔Feed, chicks, supervision, transportation (feed and chicks), and processing/marketing
What things in the poultry production process are the contract growers responsible for? - correct answer
✔✔Labor, facilities (grow out house, energy costs, equipment)
In the feed mill nutritionists work at formulating _______ ______ diets - correct answer ✔✔Least cost
What type of feed are all broilers and turkeys fed? - correct answer ✔✔Pelleted diets
What comprises 60-70% of poultry production costs? - correct answer ✔✔Feed and feed manufacturing
What step in the poultry process contains the grandparents and the great-grandparents of the broilers
we consume? - correct answer ✔✔Primary breeders
Why are birds genetically selected? - correct answer ✔✔To express traits that are desirable to the
industry
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