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Poultry Production Mid termPoultry - correct answer ✔✔domesticated fowl raised for meat or eggs. Includes chickens, turkeys,
ducks, geese, emus, ostriches, and game birds.
Primary purpose of backyard chicken flocks for table eggs, and by-product meat. - correct answer
✔✔What was the primary purpose of chicken flocks in the early 1900s?
False: 7,500 years ago - correct answer ✔✔True or False: Domestication of chicken; occurred about
8,000 years ago in East Asia
High quality protein, low fat, and low price - correct answer ✔✔What are some consumer enticing
qualities of chickens?
False: mid-century - correct answer ✔✔True or False: Commercialization of table egg production did not
occur until the early-century, mainly due to problems of disease and lack of technology to identify
unfertilized eggs.
About 4,500 years ago - correct answer ✔✔When did turkeys occur?
Pre-Columbian - correct answer ✔✔Who introduced the turkey?
Meleagris gallopavo subspecie gallopavo - correct answer ✔✔The native stock domesticated was:
breeding programs - correct answer ✔✔In 1920 _______ ______ to improve turkey began in England
white plumage - correct answer ✔✔In 1950s, breeders succeeded in developing turkey with _______
_______
, True - correct answer ✔✔True or False: Poultry meat will be the largest meat sector in the world by 2020
Gallus gallus: Red Jungle Fowl - correct answer ✔✔English name of ancestral stock of Chicken
Gallus gallus domesticus - correct answer ✔✔Scientific name of ancestral stock of Chicken
Meleagris gallopavo - correct answer ✔✔Scientific name for North American Wild Turkey
1. low price
2. good nutritional profile
3. convenience
4. no religious restriction
5. versatility
6. well suited for quick service and casual dining menus - correct answer ✔✔Factors contributing to
INCREASING consumer preference for Chicken meat (6)
1. Georgia
2. Alabama
3. Arkansas
4. North Carolina - correct answer ✔✔Names of the top 4 STATES contributing to broiler chicken
production in the USA.
1. Tyson Foods
2. Pilgrims Pride
3. Sanderson Farms
4. Perdue Farms - correct answer ✔✔Name the 4 broiler chicken-producing COMPANIES in the USA.
1. North Carolina
2. Minnesota
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