Animal Husbandry WAEC

Poultry Production

Resumen

Walk through a poultry market in Kano and you will see white Leghorns destined for egg trays, heavy white Broilers destined for the pot, and small, tough local chickens that seem to need almost nothing to survive. Three different birds, three different jobs, and behind each one a farmer who chose that breed, that housing system and that feeding routine on purpose. Poultry production is the single most widely practised branch of animal husbandry in Nigeria, from the backyard flock scratching around a compound in Enugu to the thousand-bird deep-litter house outside Ibadan.

In this lesson you will learn to sort poultry into its classes by production purpose, name the breeds a Nigerian farmer actually keeps and what each is best at, compare the three systems used to house and manage a flock, follow an egg from the nest through incubation to hatch, track a chick through brooding, growing and laying, and finish at the point of sale, where a live bird becomes dressed meat or a graded egg.

Objetivos

Classify poultry into the various classes
State the common breeds of poultry reared in Nigeria
Distinguish between the systems of poultry management
Explain the process of incubation in poultry production
Explain the management practices in poultry production
Explain the methods of processing poultry products

Nota de la lección

Poultry is the collective name for domestic birds kept for eggs, meat or both, chiefly chickens but also turkeys, ducks and guinea fowl. It is the fastest, cheapest way to put animal protein on a Nigerian table: a chick reaches market weight in weeks, not the months or years a goat or a cow needs, and a flock can be started in a small backyard with little capital. Every decision a poultry keeper makes, which class of bird to keep, which breed, which housing system, how to hatch replacement stock, and how to manage a flock from chick to point of sale, either protects that speed and cheapness or quietly erodes it.

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Poultry reared mainly for egg production are classified as: A. Broilers B. Layers C. Dual-purpose birds D. Table birds Answer: B
Which of these breeds is best known as a high-yielding egg-type breed with white plumage? A. Rhode Island Red B. Broiler C. White Leghorn D. Local chicken Answer: C
The average incubation period for chicken eggs is: A. 14 days B. 18 days C. 21 days D. 28 days Answer: C
In which system of poultry management are birds allowed to roam freely in search of food with little or no housing? A. Intensive system B. Semi-intensive system C. Extensive/free-range system D. Battery cage system Answer: C
Dressing percentage in poultry processing is calculated as: A. Live weight divided by dressed weight B. Dressed weight divided by live weight, multiplied by 100 C. Feed intake divided by body weight D. Egg weight divided by shell weight Answer: B

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