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Poultry ProductionWhat are the poultry industry sectors? - correct answer ✔✔- By production = breeding farms, layer
farms, meat chicken farms
- By birrd type = chickens/ hens; turkeys; ducks + geese; game birds; ratites
- Other sectors = feed manufacture; meat/eggs processing; transport (feed, chicks, birds, eggs, and
meat); manure
What has occurred between 1980-today to effect the scale of production of the poultry industry? -
correct answer ✔✔- genetic improvement
- better nutrition and management
- disease control ect
What can be seen in the trend for the poultry industry from 1960 to 2010? - correct answer ✔✔It is
increasing
What can be seen in the trend for NZ meat consumption of the poultry industry? - correct answer ✔✔It
is increasing
-- not rapidly, but is increasing
Why is chicken becoming more popular? - correct answer ✔✔- value for money
- nutritious/healthy
- satisfying
- convenience
- variety
- eat out meals (take aways)
Where are the main area for chicken (meat) production in NZ? - correct answer ✔✔- Auckland
- Hamilton
, - New Plymouth
- Palmerston North
- Hastings
- Christchurch
What are the three main companies which control chicken meat industry in NZ? - correct answer
✔✔Tegal Foods Ltd
Inghams Enterprises Ltd
P H van den Brink Ltd
How does the chicken meat industry operates? - correct answer ✔✔Vertical integration
- each company has ownership over all stages of the production process
-- allows for more control over the products and for cost control
What are the key stages / agents in the production process? - correct answer ✔✔- Poultry breeding
organisation - producing nucleus breeding stock
- Breeding farms / multiplication farms (company owned)
- Feed mills
- Hatcheries
- Broiler grow-out farms (contract growers)
- Processing plants and marketing under own brand
What are the vertical integrated meat chicken operations? - correct answer ✔✔Feed mill goes into:
Quarantine farm
Farm hatchery
Parent Farms
Hatchery
Broiler Farms
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