Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Bantams are usually fed a high ____ diet that is not too high in calories.

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Which production method allows for birds to range freely over an area?

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the scientific name of a dove?

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The digits of the hand are the common name of which skeletal chicken bone?

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Which gland at the base of the brain serves to regulate the release of hormones from the pituitary gland?

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. The pancreas secretes what hormone to regulate sugar metabolism?

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. When evaluating a broiler for meat production, ____ on a broiler refers to the distribution of muscle and the overall quantity of breast meat.

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Heavily breaded products with a “homestyle” appearance will have greater than ___ % coating pickup.

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ work toward advancements in food manufacturing technology combined with food safety through research and development of new poultry food products.

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. On what day of a chick embryo development do the feathers cover the complete body of the embryo?

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What is the desired brooding temperature for pullets by 5 weeks of age?

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What does the relative humidity level need to be maintained at when floor brooding laying chicks?

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. In regards to lighting terminology, what is the amount of electric energy consumed (or the amount of light emitted by a light source)?

Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. In the US eggs must be stored at or less than ____ °F to prevent microbial growth.

All the following are bacterial diseases of poultry except

All the following are viral diseases of poultry except

Operations require individuals who travel from one farm to another how many hours between visits

Market broiler chicks do not have the ability to regulate body temperature for the first how many days of their life

One bell-type drinker can be used for every how many turkey poults during brooding

What is the minimum number of hours of continuous darkness that toms and hens should have in a 24 hour time period

Which type of bird does most of the United States use in the commercial egg industry to produce white table eggs

A turkey tom is marketed at what age

Mixing of dead birds, composting material, and water refers to which disposal method

Which of the following is NOT a poultry waste treatment system

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Which gland secretes thyroxin and is involved in regulating metabolism?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Which of the following is the reason why crossed beaks of hatched chicks occur in the hatchery?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: During cell division of a developing chicken embryo, all of the following are layers that the cells form into except?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: All of the following are poultry industry occupations related to social services except?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: All of the following are sources of contamination in a hatchery except:

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Approximately what percent of shell eggs produced in the US are sold to the foodservice industry?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Development of a bloody or a cheesy plug in the windpipe can be a sign of high mortality related to what disease?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: What is the minimum internal meat temperature required by USDA for further processed poultry products to be labeled as "fully cooked"?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: When an inactivated vaccine for infectious bronchitis is used, it is routinely given at approximately how many weeks of age?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: What is the humidity level that commercial retail shell eggs should be stored at inside the egg cooler?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: What is the scientific name of a turkey?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: On average, a broiler will gain one pound of live weight per how many pounds of feed intake?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: What are often used in combination with lagoons to help remove solids from the waste stream before it enters the lagoon?

From day 10 to hatch, most of development involves what?

What kind of organism lives in or on a host and gets food from the host at the expense of the host?

Which livestock animal’s manure produces more biogas than any other livestock manure?

Which of the following would not be considered an effective and inexpensive disinfectant?

What is the term that refers to a group of very small bacteria that lack a cell wall?

Which classification of the avian influenza virus is the most common form seen?

How heavy (lbs) of a bird can a broiler producer expect to grow in 6–7 weeks?

What is the recommendation on the number of birds per automatic feeder pan in a commercial broiler house?

The precautions taken to minimize the risk of introducing an infectious disease into an animal population is known by what term?

Throughout growout, at what location on a broiler’s body should the feeders be level to ensure feed is readily available?

Which of the following is NOT a way broiler breeder growers are paid?

What is defined as any system that reduces the pollution potential of the waste or otherwise alters its original condition?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: What is responsible for giving egg whites a "cloudy" appearance when broken out?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: What is the scientific name of a northern bobwhite quail?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: On what day of a chick embryo development does the eye become pigmented?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: When an inactivated vaccine for infectious bronchitis is used, it is routinely given at approximately ____ weeks of age.

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: How many hours of light do laying chicks need their first week when floor brooding?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: On what day of a chick embryo development does the heart begin to beat?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: As of 2015 there were approximately ____ egg producing companies with $$5$$ million hens or more.

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: What is the realistic performance goal for percentage peak of egg production per day for commercial layers?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Which federal agency is within the Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services and its mission is to protect the safety and wholesomeness of food?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Which of the following genuses does not belong to the Phasianidae family?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: ____ are microscopic, single-celled organisms that can be free-living or parasitic in nature.

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: All of the following could be reasons why malposition of chicks during hatch occurred in the hatchery except:

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Which vitamin deficiency in a layers diet can result in blood spots in an egg?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: The APA places six breeds of geese into how many classes?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Bantams are purebred miniatures, being about ____ the size of Large Fowl.

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: In commercial operations USDA requires the wash water to be changed every ____ hours during production of retail eggs.

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: A broiler with a bruise that is light green and purple in color means that this bruise occurred ____ hours ago.

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: A ____ career offers the potential for rapid advancement for a poultry science graduate.

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Buying day-old chicks or hatching eggs from an ____ approved hatchery is the best way to start a healthy flock.

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: All of the following are factors that influence the speed at which pigment returns to the body parts in an egg-type hen except?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Implementing the incorrect lighting program or maintaining a high light intensity throughout broiler growout could cause which of the following downgrades on carcasses observed in the processing plant?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Leg buds on a developing embryo are created by cells between ____ and ____ days.

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Many layer breeding companies recommend a minimum relative humidity level of approximately ____% during brooding.

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: What is the outermost layer of an egg shell?

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: ____ floors are seen in broiler breeder houses.

Multiple Choice — Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: All of the following factors influence incubation time of eggs except:

All of the following are key components of any new broiler house except?

Chick weight is normally what percent of the egg weight?

Which of the following somites will form into skeletal structures during embryonic development?

When in-house composting in a turkey house, litter should have a minimum of what percent moisture?

How heavy (lbs) of a bird can a broiler producer expect to grow in 6-7 weeks?

While raising commercial turkeys it is best to maintain ammonia levels below how many ppm during cold weather to ensure proper ventilation is occurring?

Which of the following is NOT a way broiler breeder growers are paid?

Which of the following is a protozoan disease?

Hatcheries operated at high altitudes experience what kind of hatchability?

Wastes should not be spread within how many days of predicted rain to prevent runoff from carrying nutrients into surface waters?

Avian red blood cells are unique in the fact that they contain what?

Dylan is a hatchery manager in College Station, Texas. He collects eggs from his flock of 55,000 hens and collected 54,378 eggs this morning. Of these eggs 53 were dirty, 26 were cracked, 14 were small, 8 were double yolked, 30 had poor shell quality, 65 were brown-shelled, and 24 were grossly misshapen. After removing unsettable eggs, he incubated the eggs for 21 days and 52,946 chicks hatched. What is the hen day production for this flock?

A hen needs ____ more feed as egg size increases one ounce per dozen eggs?

If you are showing purebred poultry, you should refer to the ____ that shows the breed standards.

Which of the following can lead to scratching, bruising, broken limbs, and breast blisters?

Which of the following describe the membranes composing the walls of the air sacs?

A chick from day 7–21 should have a relative humidity of ____ percent.

Which viral disease is caused by a virus that has a preference for a lymphoid tissue, primarily the bursa of Fabricius?

At rest, how many beats per minute will a chicken's heart beat?

Supporting structures called ____ develop mostly from the area opaca.

At a hatchery, which of the following eggs would not be discarded?

Stocking density during broiler placement should not exceed more than ____ birds per m square during the winter and ____ birds during the summer.

Yellow light in chicken barns helps in the control of cannibalism.

A 16-week-old turkey hen is expected to weigh how many pounds?

Which of the following is a symptom of pullorum?

What brooding temperature is required for broiler chicks?

A lowered energy content diet with optimal crude protein will result in less lipid gain but ____ lean mass production – while feed conversion will be negatively affected but cost will be optimal.

In a broiler house, automatic feeder pans should have ____ birds per 33 cm diameter pans are recommended.

As of 2015, what percent of eggs produced in the U.S. are further processed?

_____ is a term associated with the use of broiler meat bird production methods that have floorless pens moved around a green pasture.

Egg strain pullet raisers strive for an egg-laying period of ____.

The yolk particles contain ____ as the major energy source, as well as some of the protein and other nutrients needed by the developing embryo.

How deep are the concrete pits used for waste storage?

What does red light in the chicken house help control?

Which of the following sections of the reproductive tract is responsible for the formation of the two shell membranes?

Feed withdrawal in excess of ____ hours causes the intestines to lose their tensile strength making them easy to tear and rupture.

Which part of the female reproductive tract does egg formation take place the longest?

Use the table of company statistics to answer: What is the change in Company B’s RTC average weekly broiler production from 2023 to 2024?

Using the table values, what is the change in Company C’s average weekly broiler liveweight slaughter from 2023 to 2024?

From the table, what is the percent change in Company B’s average weekly broiler liveweight slaughter from 2023 to 2024?

Based on the table, which company experienced the lowest percent change from 2023 to 2024 in the amount of RTC weekly broilers produced?

Approximately how many broilers (in millions) per week did Company B process based of their liveweight at slaughter in 2024? Use the table’s liveweight for Company B in 2024 and the provided average live bird weight for Company B.

Hormonal implants or feed additives for laying hens and meat birds in the United States have not been approved for over ____ years.

Hatcheries should have a ____ flow of eggs, chicks, and equipment through the building.

The abdominis performs which body function in the muscle system?

What viral disease of chickens is caused by a coronavirus?

Each 10% change in hen-day egg production will alter the feed requirement by ____%.

The chicken's oviduct is nearly how many centimeters long?

What is the outermost layer of an egg shell?

After broiler chicks have been placed in a house for 4 - 6 hours, what is an excellent indicator of floor temperature?

Which type of egg processing facility transports eggs out of the houses and directly into an egg cooling room?

On what day of a chick embryo development does the embryo turn its head towards the large end of the egg?

Which muscle in the avian body maintains bird posture?

What is the temperature of an egg when it is laid?

The two shell membranes are formed in which part of the oviduct?

How many days does it take to complete the entire composting process?

Which type of sanitizer is especially effective in spray or brush application and in footbaths in poultry houses?

Which federal agency is a cooperative effort between two USDA agencies and the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians?

On what day of a chick embryo development does the beak become visible?

If chicks appear to be drowsy and are spread around the perimeter of the brooder, the temperature is — ?

While raising commercial turkeys it is best to maintain a relative humidity level between —% during cold weather to ensure proper ventilation is occurring.

Which of the following hormones is responsible for ovulation of the most mature ovum?

On average, a broiler will gain one pound of live weight per how many pounds of feed intake?

A 40' X 200' area may house — or more broilers at one time.

An inactivated vaccine for infectious bronchitis is routinely given at approximately — weeks of age.

What term describes the conversion of manure into a combustible gas?

Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of a dry litter storage system?

The contract farmer Price has a broiler breeder flock of 30,000 hens which produced 191,310 total eggs over the course of 7 days. After processing 40-day-old birds, 158,701 broilers averaging 7.68 lbs live weight were delivered to the plant. During processing, 228 carcasses were condemned. The average breast meat weight was 2.46 lbs per bird. What is the overall total amount of breast meat obtained from broilers processed?

A broiler flock processed 158,701 birds at an average live weight of 7.68 lbs with an average carcass yield of 0.83. During processing, 228 carcasses were condemned. What is the average carcass weight for this flock of broilers?

A broiler flock delivered 158,701 birds averaging 7.68 lbs live weight with a carcass yield of 0.83. During processing, 228 carcasses were condemned, and revenue was $0.96 per lb of carcass weight produced. What was the total revenue from this flock of broilers based on carcass weight?

For a broiler flock with a feed conversion rate of 1.86 and feed cost of $$0.27 per lb, 158,701 birds were delivered for processing, of which 228 carcasses were condemned. Using the carcass-based revenue of$$ 0.96 per lb and the average live weight of 7.68 lbs, what was the estimated profit from this flock of broilers?

During grow out, each broiler defecated at a rate equal to its feed consumption. The flock’s average live weight was 7.68 lbs with a feed conversion rate of 1.86 and the moisture content of the fecal material was 75%. How much fecal material was expelled into the broiler houses during grow out per a bird?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: What can cause difficulty in removing the shell from the white of a hard-boiled egg?

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: How many days does it take for a goose egg to hatch?