Poultry Prod

Poultry

Popular because they are fast multipliers

Poultry

Quick growers, more efficient feed converters

Chicken

The most popular poultry species

Duck

2nd most popular (for balut, salted and century eggs)

quail

3rd most popular for its egg

Patani/Ulikba

• Local Philippines

• Native (Rare)

• Meat

Banaba

Batangas/Quezon

Bolinao

Pangasinan

Darag

Ilo-ilo

Camarines

Bicol Region

Itik Pinas (IP)

IP-Itim—> IP-Khaki—> IP-Kayumanggi

Brooding

0-6 weeks

Growing

6-16 weeks

Laying

24-78 weeks

Preparation of Laying

15-18 weeks

Chick

Young chicken

Order: Galliformes

• Chicken

• Turkeys

• Quails

  ( Do not have true phallus (Copulatory organ), with v-shaped breast)

Order: Anseriformes

• Duck

• Geese

• Swans

  ( Have true phallus, with v-shaped breast)

Order: Struthioniformes

• Ostriches (Have flat breast)

Order: Columbiformes

• Pigeons

• Doves

  (Secrete “milk”)

Pullet

Immature female chicken

Drake

Adult male duck

Jake

Young male Turkey

Jenny

Young female Turkey

Candling

Done to test for egg fertility and viability

Brooding

Starts as soon as the chicks are placed in the brooder area where heat is supplied until they have grown to the point

Natural hatching eggs

The hen lays eggs (1 per day) over period of several days

Natural Hatching eggs

After 21 day, the eggs hatch

Natural hatching eggs

A hen that sits on her eggs to hatch them is reffered to as “broody”