🐣 Poultry - General Mngmnt

Parental stocks

Source of breeder stocks

Brooding

The process of raising the chicks from the time they are removed from the incubator until they can thermoregulate

True

Healthy chicks have dry, fluffy feathers, bright eyes, presence of unabsorbed yolk sac, and no deformities

False

The brooder should only be heated when the chicks arrive

28-29℃

Temperature for 14 day old chickens

30-33℃

temperature for 3-7 day old chicks

26-27℃

temperature for 3 week old chickens

20-25℃

temperature of 28 week old chickens

Unusual behavior

Chicks huddling in the center - normal or unusual behavior?

Normal behavior

Chicks playing in the brooder - normal or unusual behavior?

Too cold

Ruffled down feathers - too cold, too hot, or just right?

Too hot

Droopy wings - too cold, too hot, or just right?

Sixty watts

Sufficient wattage for an incandescent bulb in brooder pen

checking the inflow and outflow of the air

Purpose of curtains in brooder pens

Just Right

does not produce unusual chirping sounds - too cold, too hot, or just right?

Ten days

When should the house and equipment be cleaned before the chicks arrive?

Twenty four hours

When should the drinkers be filled and put into place before the chicks arrive?

Twelve hours

When should the brooder be ready before the chicks arrive?

Drink water

First thing chicks consume when chicks arrive at brooder pen

5 to 10 percent sugar solution

Crucial component of the first drinking water for chickens

After one week

When to add vitamins and electrolytes in drinking water for chicks

Water

80% of the body component of newly hatched chicks

Fifty

Chicks allocated for one chick sized drinker

Three to five days

If chicks are stressed, when to introduce vitamins in water?

Flat feeders

Where should starter feeds be placed for chicks?

Eighteen days old

At what age do bell drinkers be level in a bird’s back?

35 to 45°

At what angle should the nipple drinkers be placed in correspondence with the floor?

Confine chicks to heater area

Purpose of brooder guard

One week

Duration for usage of brooder guard

15 centimeter squared

Floor space allowance for day old layer chicken

0.3 feet squared

Floor space allowance for day old broiler chicken

1 feet squared

Floor space allowance for market age broiler chicken

30 centimeter squared

Floor space allowance for 4 week old layer chicken

Beak trimming

Process done during brooding to prevent cannibalism

Seven day old

Average age for chicks to beak trim

2,500 chicks

Amount of chicks allowed to use the cutting edge of the machine used for beak trimming

5,000 chicks

Amount of chicks allowed to use the blade of the machine used for beak trimming

Two days

How many days should chicks be given vitamins before beak trimming

Three days

How many days should chicks be given vitamins after beak trimming

Yes

Is there a second occurrence of beak trimming?

No

Are female chickens discouraged for a second beak trimming?

Enhances digestion

Purpose of Grit

Six weeks

Starting period of growing chicken

1 to 12 weeks

Chicks’ growing period

15 to 22 weeks

Pullets’ growing period

22 weeks and above

Laying hens’ growing period

7.5 to 10 centimeter

feeder space allowance per bird

2.5 centimeter

drinker space allowance per bird

Round plastic drinkers

Known as a satisfactory drinker type

Declawing

Process of removing a part of a chickens’ body to prevent being wounded in mating

Ten weeks

Appropriate age to declaw a chicken

Debeaking machine

Equipment used to declaw a chicken

Monitor type

Most used housing design

8 centimeter

Minimum litter thickness

Three weeks

Appropriate time to turn the litter

Body weight

Crucial factor of egg production

22 to 25 weeks of age

Estimate start of laying period of chickens

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone

hormone produced during exposure to light

Uniform sexual maturity

Factor that increases rapid egg production

13 hours

Highest possible day length in the Philippines

11 hours

Lowest possible day length in the Philippines

14 hours

Minimum duration of light exposure for laying hens

19 weeks

Age of laying chickens that are not allowed to have a decreased light exposure

30 minutes

Minutes to be increased in the first two weeks when production falls below 1%

Four

Pullets per nest hole

22 centimeters

Length of jump rails

Every week

How often should clean litter materials be added to laying hens

Every month

How often should nests be changed?

Four times

How often should eggs be collected daily?

Dirty litter

This affects egg hatchability

7.5 centimeters

Minimum depth of litter for laying chickens

1 percent

At what percentage should culling and mortality not exceed

60 to 65 weeks

Period of age for flock depletion for meat type birds

75 to 80 weeks

Period of age for flock depletion for layers