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  2. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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    Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers. More than 60 billion chickens are killed for consumption annually.

  3. Poultry farming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    With a steady demand for eggs, efforts to create a poultry egg industry began in earnest, but raising poultry remained challenging; early efforts at industrial-scale indoor poultry houses led to problems with diseases like coccidiosis, Marek's disease, and vitamin D deficiency were not well understood. Egg production was largely increased by ...

  4. Broiler industry - Wikipedia

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    The chicks are delivered to the actual broiler Grow-Out farms. In the US, houses may be up to 60' x 600' (36000 sq.ft.). [31] One 2006 magazine survey reported a desired 67-foot wide house, with the average 'standard' new house being 45' x 493', with largest being 60' x 504'. [32] One farm complex may have several houses.

  5. Gold Kist - Wikipedia

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    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. It was founded in 1933 by D.W. Brooks , a University of Georgia agronomy instructor as the Cotton Producers Association , a cooperative to help farmers in Carrollton, Georgia , market ...

  6. Wayne Farms - Wikipedia

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    Wayne Farms LLC is an American producer and processor of poultry based in Oakwood, Georgia.. As a subsidiary of ContiGroup, Wayne Farms operates hatcheries, feed mills, finishing farms, and processing facilities to supply poultry to retail and foodservice customers worldwide.

  7. Broiler - Wikipedia

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    Magazines for the poultry industry existed at this time. [4] [5] A crossbred variety of chicken was produced from a male of a naturally double-breasted Cornish strain, and a female of a tall, large-boned strain of white Plymouth Rocks. [6] This first attempt at a meat crossbreed was introduced in the 1930s and became dominant in the 1960s.

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