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| a promotional agency for egg producers, uses the incredible Edible Egg Campaign |
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| A slang term referring to nay type of poultry |
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| A young bird of either sex, up to six to seven weeks of age and weighing 3.5 to 4.5 pounds dressed, usually of the meat-type breeds. This term is interchangable with the term FRYER, which is often used on the west coast. |
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| Parent stock which prodcues fertile eggs that are hatched to produce the broiler or meat-type chicks used for meat production. |
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| Heat source for chicks and young birds. |
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| A method to examine the interior content of eggs |
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| A young chicken, phesasant or other game bird from one day to about five to six weeks of age, either male or female |
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| A mature male chicken (rooster) |
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| When birds are reared indoors permanently |
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| A farm that has a contract with an integrator (poultry company) to grow their birds. |
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| The rate at which feed is converted to meat; for example, 2.00 feed conversion rate indicates that 2 pounds of feed were consumed for each 1 pound of gain in live poultry weight. |
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| Refers to Ringneck pheasants, wild turkeys, Bobwhite quail, etc. |
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| period of time required to reach desired market weight |
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| Number of eggs that hatch, expressed as a percentage |
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| A facility in which eggs are hatched |
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| An adult female turkey or chicken |
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| A special incubator that holds eggs > 18 days of incubation until hatch. |
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The combination (under the management of one firm) of 2 or more of the porcesses in the production and marketing of a [particular product, generally the processes are capable of being operated as separate business
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| Refers to the birds use by the commercial egg producing companies. Layers are kept in cages. |
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| Nationaly turkey Federation (NTF) |
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| Promotional organization for turkey growers |
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| national Chicken Council (NCC) |
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| Industry association \representing chicken meat producers and processors. |
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| U.S Pouultry and Egg Association (USPEA) |
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| An organization that represents all poultry producers, poultry processors and affiliated companies. They conduct research and a collegiate program. |
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| Wood Chips, sawdust, shavings, or straw used to cover the floor of the poultry house, that broliers or turkeys walk on. |
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| Postmortem examtion of carcass |
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| Amputation the last joint of one wing to prevent flying |
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| Unwanted parts of a poultry carcass. Usually recycled as feed. |
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| A young, feamle chcicken breder before it reaches maturity at lighting, or 20 weeks. This term is used to describe a young female chicken prior to when they lay eggs. |
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| A facility in which turkeys and chickens are cleaned and processed to produce ready to sell products |
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| Parent stock which produces fertile eggs that hatch into chicks used for egg produciton |
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| A facility in which offal or byproducts from a processing plant is processed into poultry meal, poultry fat, and feather meal. |
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| Abnormal respiratory sound, rattling or wheezing |
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| Large, flightless birds, such as ostrich, emu, rhea and cassowary |
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| Incubator used during the first 18 days of incubation |
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| When chicks are sold unsexed |
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a bredder trukey, breeder boiler or egg production hen which has passed its useful economic laying stage. it can also be called spent fowl.
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| The female hen generally used as baking hens in the turkey industry. |
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| The make turkey generally used for further processing |
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| Form of nitrogen secreted by birds |
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| A suspension of large amounts of disease organisms used to produce immunity in animals receiving the vaccine |
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| maximizing consumer appeal by further processing. |
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