Poultry
Chickens used for egg production
What is a layer?
Can you hatch an egg you get from the grocery store?
No
The most popular breed of dairy cow because they produce the most milk
What is a holstein?
The amount of ingredients in a beef hamburger as compared to the amount in a plant-based hamburer.
One ingredient
The place where dairy cows are brought to be milked
What is a parlor?
This housing system has the lowest carbon footprint and the lowest cost.
What is conventional housing?
Determines the color of the shell
What is the breed of chicken?
Type of operation where calves are fed until they reach finishing weight
What is a feedlot?
This voluntary grading system is used to determine quality of meat.
What is the USDA grading system?
People who are allergic to milk are actually allergic to this:
What is lactose?
Chickens used for meat production
What is a broiler?
This holds the germinal disc toward the top of the egg
What is the chalazae?
Reproductive method that has almost completely replaced natural breeding in dairy operations
What is artificial insemination?
What are the top three grades of meat?
What is Prime, Choice, and Select?
What is fortified?
Selecting breeding chickens based on desirable traits
What is artifical selection or selective breeding?
This gives the chick energy to hatch out of the egg.
What is the yolk?
Type of dairy housing system where animals can roam wherever they like in the barn
What is free-stall housing?
All parts of the animal not used for meat
what is a byproduct?
The first milk produced by the cow
What is vertical integration?
How often will a hen lay an egg?
Every 24-26 hours
How many times a day are heifers milked?
Zero!
If people want to minimize greenhouse gas emission, instead of focusing on beef, we should be focusing on...
Food waste!
Dairy calves are given this protein rich food source for the first 8 weeks of life
What is milk replacer?