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Poultry Production Exam 1 (University ofArkansas)
How did the number and size of poultry companies change between 1997 and 2016? - correct answer
✔✔Decreased in number (55 in 1995 to 34 in 2016) but grew in size gaining further economies of scale.
How does the broiler industry differ from the hog and beef industries? - correct answer ✔✔It is almost
entirely vertically integrated, with broiler-processing firms coordination almost all aspects of production,
processing, and marketing.
What are the benefits of vertical integration? - correct answer ✔✔Control over the number of birds
delivered to the processing plants allows processors to match inputs to plant capacity, lower processing
costs (per unit) and meet consumer requirements.
How many poultry farms in Arkansas? - correct answer ✔✔6,034
How many poultry jobs in Arkansas? - correct answer ✔✔42, 595
How many complexes in Arkansas? - correct answer ✔✔23
How many birds does each complex process per week? - correct answer ✔✔appx. 30 mil
What fraction of agriculture jobs in Arkansas does poultry account for? - correct answer ✔✔1 in 4
Describe the breeding stock process for the broiler industry? - correct answer ✔✔1. companies purchase
male and female lines from genetic companies (male-female combos give different products [chicks])
2. Company obtains day old pullets and males and raise them separately on contract farms.
3. Before they begin to lay they are transferred to contract breeder farms.
, What are the terms for female and male breeders? - correct answer ✔✔Females:
Pullet- immature hen (never laid and egg and not sexually mature)
Breeder- Once the pullet lays her first egg. (simplified:: pullet- 0-25 weeks/breeder-25-65 weeks)
Male: always termed rooster.
What are the top 6 male breeds? - correct answer ✔✔Cobb-MX, Cobb-MV, Cobb, Hubbard 99Y, Ross,
Ross Yield Plus
What are the top 5 female breeds? - correct answer ✔✔Cobb 500 fast feathering, Cobb 500 slow
feathering, Cobb 700, Ross 308, and Ross 708
What traits influence breed selection? - correct answer ✔✔Breast meat yield, feed conversion, weight
gain, livability/disease resistance, leg strength.
What do genetic companies base their selection programs on? - correct answer ✔✔The needs of the
companies.
How often are the eggs transported from the breeder farm to the hatchery? - correct answer ✔✔every
2-3 days
How are the eggs stored until placed in incubators or setters? - correct answer ✔✔in a cooler at appx. 68
degrees Fahrenheit
When are eggs transferred from incubators to hatchers? - correct answer ✔✔day 18
Most commercial hatcheries are:
A. Manually run
B. Completely automated
C. Equally split between automation and manual labor. - correct answer ✔✔B. Completely automated.
What is straight run? - correct answer ✔✔The males and females are not separated at hatch.
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