Points of wing attachment - correct answer ✔✔The carry of muscling in market broilers is determined by
how well the breast meat width carries from the _______ to the end of the keel bone
B - correct answer ✔✔While candling an egg, an individual observes very small blood spots that do not
aggregate to more than 1/8 inch in diameter. This egg would be assigned a
less than 1/32 of the shell are observed. Which USDA Grade should be assigned
to this egg?
16-17 - correct answer ✔✔On Leghorn-strain pullet farms, birds are raised from hatchling to
approximately
how many weeks age?
240-350 - correct answer ✔✔For a typical egg laying operation, the production goals are to produce an
average of one dozen table eggs for every 3.0 to 3.5 pounds of feed provided,
and to gather how many eggs per hen housed during the 52 to 80-week laying
period?
Turkey breeders require more labor than do broiler breeders, but payments are higher - correct answer
✔✔Which following statement is most true regarding turkey breeders?
The efforts of agriculturally oriented engineers in the poultry
industry have advanced toward complete automation as compared to
any other livestock enterprise. - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is true relating to the need
for engineer in the poultry
, industry?
Poultry has a higher body temperature - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following are unique
characteristics poultry possess when
compared to other forms of livestock?
wing-bay - correct answer ✔✔A wing's secondaries form the ________________
around day 4 and an even larger percentage at day 18 - correct answer ✔✔Increased embryo mortality
in incubating chicken usually occurs
Pullorum - correct answer ✔✔Vent pasting in young chicks and poults is a major gross symptom of
______?
flock history - correct answer ✔✔If a disease condition should occur, a _______ __________ is very
important in
the investigation to determine of the cause of a disease condition in a flock. This
includes such information as age of the birds, source, nutritional programs,
lighting, housing, disease signs, when the disease condition was first observed,
mortality rate (death loss), when mortality occurred and frequency, morbidity
(frequency of birds displaying signs), vaccination programs, etc
Leaking waters or rainfall or roof runoff - correct answer ✔✔Disadvantages and risks relating to high-rise
water storage systems include
polluted drainage as the manure pile may be turned into a slurry and wash away
from the storage area, serious fly infestation can develop, and excessive
ammonia may form. A common cause of these conditions is/are
10% - correct answer ✔✔Regarding poultry waste management and the storage of broiler litter, research
performed on roofed storage systems shows that this type of system loses what
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