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  2. Forced molting - Wikipedia

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    Forced molting typically involves the removal of food and/or water from poultry for an extended period of time to reinvigorate egg-laying. Forced molting, sometimes known as induced molting, is the practice by some poultry industries of artificially provoking a flock to molt simultaneously, typically by withdrawing food for 7–14 days and sometimes also withdrawing water for an extended period.

  3. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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    Excess heat, cold or damp can have a harmful effect on the animals and their productivity. [15] Free range farmers have less control than farmers using cages in what food their chickens eat, which can lead to unreliable productivity, [16] though supplementary feeding reduces this uncertainty. In some farms, the manure from free range poultry ...

  4. Chicken as food - Wikipedia

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    Those crates are then piled 5 to 10 rows high on the transport truck to the abattoir. During shipment, the chickens tend to defecate, and that chicken manure tends to sit inside the crowded cages, contaminating the feathers and skin of the chickens, or rains down upon the chickens and crates on the lower levels of the transport truck.

  5. Broiler - Wikipedia

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    One-day-old chicks arriving to be unpacked and placed in shed Artificial selection has led to a great increase in the speed with which broilers develop and reach slaughter-weight. [ 2 ] Selection and husbandry for very fast growth means there is a genetically induced mismatch between the energy-supplying organs of the broiler and its energy ...

  6. Free range - Wikipedia

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    Meat chickens: Free-range broilers are reared for meat and are allowed access to an outdoor range for at least 8 hours each day. RSPCA standards state that in order for chickens to be free range, there must not be more than 13 chickens per square meter. [ 23 ]

  7. Plymouth Rock chicken - Wikipedia

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    The Plymouth Rock is easy to manage, is early-feathering, has good resistance to cold and is a good sitter. [2] It has a single comb with five points; the comb, wattles and ear-lobes are bright red. The legs are yellow and unfeathered. The beak is yellow or horn-colored. [6]: 69 The back is long and broad, and the breast fairly deep. [14]

  8. Dermanyssus gallinae - Wikipedia

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    Dermanyssus gallinae (also known as the red mite) is a haematophagous ectoparasite of poultry.It has been implicated as a vector of several major pathogenic diseases. [1] [2] Despite its common names, it has a wide range of hosts including several species of wild birds and mammals, including humans, where the condition it causes is called gamasoidosis.

  9. Cannibalism in poultry - Wikipedia

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    Feather pecking is often the initial cause of an injury which then attracts the cannibalistic pecking of other birds – perhaps as re-directed foraging or feeding behaviour. In the close confines of modern farming systems, the increased pecking attention is easily observed by multiple birds which join in the attack, and often the escape ...