AHPS - Week 12: Chickens - broilers.

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Across
  1. 1. ascites can be improved by growth restriction and brooding in a ______ environment. Males more likely to be affected overall.
  2. 4. large decline in the consumption (in Australia) of mutton and _______ since 1960, beef has stayed about the same, whereas pork and poultry have increased significantly.
  3. 5. Australian consumption of chicken meat has risen rapidly since 1950 from 4.4kg to 38kg. Mostly due to ______ competitiveness. Also perceived as healthy and low fat, and easy to cook.
  4. 8. traditional broiler breeds are leghorns (________ with yellow legs). Synthetic meat lines include Plymouth rock
  5. 9. victoria processes about ___ million birds per week., the largest plant processes 700,000 of these.
  6. 10. no ______________ have ever been used in Australian meat chickens. No hormones have been used in egg chickens since 1960.
  7. 13. _________ or ‘water belly’ develops between weeks 2-5.
  8. 15. broilers are stunned with ____________ stunning (some gaseous stunning also with carbon dioxide)
  9. 18. rachitic disease (problems with skeletal development) can be improved by restriction of ______ in the first 11 days of life, correct Ca:P ratio, and vit D supplementation.
  10. 20. broilers have a mortality from weeks 1-5/7 of 1.5-6% (good = 2.5). with a higher mortality in the ________ week, and lower in subsequent weeks
  11. 21. causes of mortality in broilers include = _____ sac infection, acute death syndrome, ascites, lameness/skeletal disease, resp disease, bacterial septicaemia.
Down
  1. 2. the Australian broiler industry started in the 1950s with 3 _________ broilers, increased to 450 _________ in 2005.
  2. 3. 25% of Australian broilers are produced in _______ (120million).
  3. 6. the chicken meat industry has seen high levels of ________ integration – bringing together of different stages of production under the one company.
  4. 7. there are 5 major processors in victoria – baiada (33%) > ________ and La Ionica (31%) > Inghams (23%) > hazeldenes (13%)
  5. 11. welfare issues in broilers include tissue ____________, dehydration, level of ammonia in the shed, and high stocking densities
  6. 12. fertile eggs are incubated for 21 days.
  7. 14. ______ ________ broiler production is increasing. Currently about 10% of victorias production. only 40 of 220 farms are ____ ______.
  8. 16. majority of chicken growing in victoria is done by farms which hold a ___________- with processors (steggles/inhams etc).
  9. 17. there are ___ big chicken meat breeders in Australia. All stock comes from only 2 large ones in the world – german and dutch companies. Hendrix supplies hybro and hubbard. Lohmann supplies Ross and Arbor.
  10. 19. broiler chickens are grown to an age range between 5-8 _____. After each batch sheds are cleaned/disinfected. Each farmer grows 5.5 batches per year.