ANS 217 Lecture 2: Week 2 Poultry Notes .pdf
12 Feb 2013
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Further advances in genetics, nutrition, and management. By 2011- 9 billion: today"s industry, highly specialized. Embraced technology and incorporated economics of a large scale facility: 3 distinct industries that do not mix! Some do share product or people, but remain distinct. Have their own breeding programs off the farm. Hatchery, each one has one that operates independently and hatches all the chicks. Production methods: all different in processing plants, mostly due to automated systems and, vertical integration: the ownership of the entire company, varying size baby chicks finished product. No birds changing hands ever, all owned by the big company but might have multiple facilities. Ownership of product, directly from industry to consumer. Egg producer, hatchery, feed mill, grower, meat processing, feed processing, packaging, and transportation all owned by the company. Egg industry is the same way, but they often don"t have their own hatchery . Majority of these processes are automated: high technology.
