Poultry

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Poultry
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Poultry Terms

• Roaster- Large chicken to be slaughtered (8-9
  lbs)
• Broilers- chicken used for meat (4-4.5 lbs)

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Poultry Terms

• Layers- chickens used primarily for laying eggs.

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Common Chicken Breeds
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White Leghorn

• Most of our eggs today come from a leghorn
  variety

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White Leghorn
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Plymouth Barred Rock

• Dual purpose
• Hardy farm chicken

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Bantam

• little chicken
• Miniature versions of standard breeds
• Bantams are used primarily for show

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Poultry production

• Turkeys 90 of turkeys grown commercially are
  Broad-Breasted White

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The Poultry Industry
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Practices in Poultry Industry

• Debeaking- Removal of top of beak, prevents
  cannibalism.

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Practices in the poultry industry

• Egg candling