Poultry
USDA Defend the Flock Program
Poultry for the Consumer
The poultry industry has developed into the premier meat food product consumed in the United States. The reasons for this ascention to the top of popular food products (meat and eggs) list are many. They are nutritional, economical, versatile in preparation, and are available in many different food products suitable for the modern American lifestyle.
The same factors that make poultry products popular also increase the need for food quality and safety information to the consumer. This site contains materials that answers many of the major questions posed by the information-seeking consumer of poultry products.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Poultry
Poultry
- Best Breeds of Chickens
- Breeds and varieties of chickens
- Causes for hens eating their eggs
- Causes of pecking and cannibalism
- Causes of Poor Feathering
- Chick removal from hatchery
- Commercial Poultry
- Constructing a Plywood Incubator
- Constructing a Polystyrene Incubator
- Construction of a still-air incubator
- Contents of chicken egg
- Culling Hens
- Disease and Pest Control
- Diseases of Poultry
- FAQ
- Feeds and Nutrition
- Fumigation and sanitation of hatching eggs
- Game Birds and Ratites
- General characteristics of Disinfectants
- Good management of egg producing hens
- Hatchery Management Guide for Game Bird and Small Poultry Flock Owners
- Hatching egg storage period
- How long to produce fertile eggs?
- Important incubation factors
- Incubation duration periods
- Incubation temperature requirements
- Management of egg producing hens
- Mistakes When Grilling Broilers
- Molting of laying hens
- Pesticides
- Pesticides Used for Control of Poultry Insect Pests
- Pipped eggs that do not hatch
- Quail Brooding Temperatures
- Quail Feed Formulations
- Quail Feed Medications
- Quail Feeding Programs
- Quail Pox
- Raising Backyard Chickens - Bio Security
- Reproduction & Incubation
- Sanitation of hatching eggs
- Sexing of day-old chicks
- Small Flock Management
- Solutions and Treatments
- Space needs of Bobwhite Quail
- Stages in chick embryo development
- Stimulating the setting instinct
- Temperatures recommended for brooding quail
- Testing incubated eggs for embryo development
- Time hens continue to produce fertile eggs
- Treatments for External Poultry Parasites
- Treatments for Poultry Parasites
- Trouble Shooting Failures with Egg Incubation
- Ulcerative Enteritis in Quail
- Washing of hatching eggs
- Why do hens stop laying eggs?
- Will all hens set on eggs?