Chickens

How do you know what the gender is

• look at the feathers

• Look at the legs

• Don’t care about the gender

• Miss g

Why is there liquid in the egg

• I don’t know

• Traps water

• Just for them to drink

• To help them survive

Raises pullets (a young hen) or roosters

• Pullet

• Breeder Farm

• Broiler

• Laying Farm

• Hackle Farm

Roosters and hens mate to fertilize eggs

• Pullet

• Breeder Farm

• Laying Farm

• Broiler Farm

• Hackle Farm

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Chickens are harvested for meat

• Pullet Farm

• Breeder Farm

• Laying Farm

• Broiler Farm

• Hackle Farm

Chickens are raised specifically for laying eggs

• Laying Farm

• Breeder Farm

• Hackle Farm

• Broiler Farm

• Pullet Farm

Chickens raised for their feathers.

• Breeder Farm

• Broiler Farm

• Laying Farm

• Hackle Farm

• Pullet Farm

•Chickens can produce about 275 eggs/year

•Chickens naturally live 6+ years

•After 1-2 years of laying productivity may decline

• Pullet Farm

• Breeder Farm

• Broiler Farm

• Hackle Farm

• Laying Farm

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•Baby chicks are brought to the farm at 1 day of age

•Kept for 5-9 weeks

•Chickens grow to be 2.5-8lbs

•Sold to consumers, grocery stores, restaurants.

•Most common type of poultry farm

• Broiler Farm

• Laying Farm

• Breeder Farm

• Pullet Farm

• Hackle Farm

Chickens find a nest to lay fertilized eggs.

Eggs are collected and sorted.

Eggs are taken to the hatchery.

Chickens are kept on this farm for 43-46 weeks.

Hopefully 85-90% of eggs that have been fertilized will hatch.

• Breeder Farm

• Laying Farm

• Broiler Farm

• Pullet Farm

• Hackle Farm

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