POPM 4230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Broad Breasted White Turkey, Leghorn Chicken, East Lancs Myllennium
19 Jan 2017
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Heavy-boned, large body, and genetically selected for fast growth and high breast meat yield. Main breeds in canada: ross and cobb. Light weight and genetically selected for high egg production (and high egg quality) Main breeds in canada: lohmann, isa, hyline, shaver, bovan. ~ white leghorn = generic name for a white laying chicken. Heavy-boned, large body, and genetically selected for high breast meat yield. Main breed in canada: broad breasted white. Produce hatching (ie. fertilized) eggs for the next generation of broilers, layers, or turkeys. Aviagen turkeys in the us and hybrid turkeys in ont (kitchener) There are only 2 commercial strains in north america supplied by 2 primary breeding companies: Government endorsed partnership that regulates domestic production and imports of certain commodity groups, including chicken, turkey, eggs, broiler hatching eggs (and milk) For each commodity group, the corresponding national marketing agency sets the quota based on domestic consumption of the product.
