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| With regards to welfare in poultry, what does FAWL stand for? |
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Feed, air, water, litter
- needs to be clean, with consistent temperature and moisture |
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| Name (the) two types of housing systems for poultry |
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- free range (aviaries)
- conventional cages (battery) |
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| True or false: Provincially inspected plants can sell to all of Canada |
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| False, only with federally inspected plants can you sell nation-wide |
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| What are the types of chickens (for cooking)? |
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- roaster
- capon
- boiler/fryer
- Cornish game |
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Remote, very rural areas
Increased ease in biosecurity |
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- adding chicks
- can separate with cardboard, gradually allow access to whole space |
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- double story
- lots of single story barns now, b/c of safety laws |
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- nutrient puck (antibiotics)
- pecking = ingest |
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- used to between male and female chicks
- important for differentiation at early stages |
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- chicks imprint very easily and quickly
- we want to get chicks out of the hatchery and into the barn ASAP |
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- spray chicks with vaccine/nutrient/antibiotics
- chicks lick off of each other when pecking |
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| - stops males from over-eating |
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- eggs are rotated at consistent intervals
- rooms are heated |
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- make money on the whole bird
- market weight is important (high density) |
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- chicken catcher
- stressful
- decreases welfare
- dusty as well as bad for respiratory health |
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- chicken has a very high consistency
- not much of a natural taste
- but, can be flavoured easily |
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- all other bits of meat from deboning chicken
- by-products used in hot-dogs, pet foods, etc. |
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- eggs roll to front
- slant of floor might affect bird |
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- lots of perching
- nesting boxes means they can lay eggs where they want |
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- Indonesia
- cogeneration of protein |
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- nesting boxes on floor
- problem: more work to collect |
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| Name three chicken breeds, and identify the most common one |
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Single Comb White Leghorn (most common)
Single Comb Rhode Island Red
Barred Plymouth Rock |
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| What is beneficial about Smallholders? |
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- they don't take up lots of space
- used for personal food (meat, egg) production
- they don't need a complex diet |
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| How many days does it take to hatch an egg, incubator & hatchery time combined? |
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| What is the humidity maintained in the incubator? |
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| Once transferred from the incubator, where are the eggs taken and how long are they there for? |
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hatchery
-hatch 3 days later |
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| What is the minimum weight for sending a female/male chicken for slaughter? |
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