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  2. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Chickens raised for eggs are known as layers, while chickens raised for meat are called broilers. [4] In the United States, the national organization overseeing poultry production is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the UK, the national organisation is the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

  3. Broiler industry - Wikipedia

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    Broiler breeder farms raise parent stock which produce fertilized eggs. A broiler hatching egg is never sold at stores and is not meant for human consumption. [9] The males and females are separate genetic lines or breeds, so that each line can be selected for optimal traits for productivity in either females or males, rather than a single line in which a compromise is reached between female ...

  4. Battery cage - Wikipedia

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    Chickens in multiple-occupancy battery cages. Battery cages are a housing system used by factory farms for various animal production methods, but primarily for egg-laying hens. The name arises from the arrangement of rows and columns of identical cages connected, in a unit, as in an artillery battery. Although the term is usually applied to ...

  5. Poultry farming in Kenya - Wikipedia

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    The most prevalent animal in Kenya is chicken. Small numbers rear other types of birds. Some farmers specialise on rearing chickens for meat only (broilers), while others focus on egg production (layers); and yet others specialise in rearing the Kienyeji type (indigenous chickens where both cocks and hens live together). [3]

  6. Gold Kist - Wikipedia

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    Gold Kist layer farm in Live Oak, Florida.Two 600' x 40' houses containing approximately 13,000 hens and 1,500 roosters each. Gold Kist was a large chicken producing company in the southern United States.

  7. Broiler - Wikipedia

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    Mass production of chicken meat is a global industry and at that time, only two or three breeding companies supplied around 90% of the world's breeder-broilers. The total number of meat chickens produced in the world was nearly 47 billion in 2004; of these, approximately 19% were produced in the US, 15% in China, 13% in the EU25 and 11% in Brazil.

  8. Ugachick Limited - Wikipedia

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    Ugachick Limited was established in 1992. The business is divided into five divisions: [1] Feed Mill - Supplies feeds to other divisions in the business and other farmers in Uganda and the region; Parent Stock Farm - Adult layer birds for laying eggs; Hatchery - For hatching of chicks for sale; Broiler Farm - Raising adult birds for meat

  9. Poultry feed - Wikipedia

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    Chickens feeding on grain. Poultry feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic birds. Before the twentieth century, poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm.

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