Across
- 2. Chickens being prepared for consumption
- 3. The process of using light to be determined the eggs quality
- 4. Place where reproductive, digestive, and urinary systems meet
- 5. Organ where feed is mechanically ground
- 8. Newly hatched egg-type chicks are transported to a ___ where they are raised to about 20 weeks old
- 9. Organ where food can be stored if proventriculus and gizzard are full
- 12. Turkey growers move poults to ___ barns were the facilities are larger and provide more space for the young turkeys to reach to reach market weight
- 13. Does not serve any significant purpose in the bird digestive system
- 16. Day old turkey poults arrive at ___ from the hatchery and placed in an open floor reading house where they grow for the next 4-6 weeks until they are ready to be moved
- 19. Absorbs water from waste materials
- 21. The parent birds that produce fertile eggs for broiler chickens are produced by ____
- 22. Organ where digested feed is absorbed
- 23. Turkey hens will grow for about 14 weeks and reach weights of ___ pounds
- 25. Eggs that are laid by egg- laying chickens
Down
- 1. When a single enterprise owns and controls multiple states production operation it is called ___
- 6. Secretes digestive enzymes into the small intestine
- 7. Pedigreed flocks of grandparent birds that produce the final generation of breeding birds are produced by ___
- 10. A facility where eggs are raised to be hatched
- 11. New chicks are placed in floor-rearing houses to be raised and fed for 4-6 weeks when they will reach market weight at ___ farms
- 14. The belief that all farms are a part of a corporation created the label of ___
- 15. Domesticated animals raised to be food
- 17. Eggs are collected several times each day, quickly cooled, cleaned, graded for internal and external quality, and then packaged for sale by the ___
- 18. Organ where acid is mixed with feed
- 20. Place where waste is passed out of the body
- 24. Layers will continue to produce eggs for almost 1 ___ or more