Market Turkey Management
This is how often you should clean turkey grower waterers.
What is Daily?
This is the major energy source found in the yolk.
What is Fat?
This is the moisture content of poultry manure.
What is 75%?
The body temperature of Poultry.
What is 105 to 107*F?
This is the year the FFA was established.
(Hint, we share a birthyear with Micky!)
What is 1928?
When brooding turkey poults, you should provide one feeder trough this length per 100 poults.
What is 48 inches?
This is where the development of the egg begins.
What is the Ovary?
Poultry waste should not be spread within this many feet of fresh water wells.
What is 150 feet?
This is what the specific tracts feathers grow from are called.
What are Pterylae?
This is the year that National Blue and Corn Gold was adopted as the official FFA colors/
What is 1929?
This mineral can result in black, grainy residue on water filters and in drinkers.
What is Magnesium?
This is the membrane which holds the yolk contents intact.
What is the Vitelline Membrane?
This is how deep poultry bedding should be.
What is 2-6 inches?
The rate of food passage for a laying hen.
What is 2.5 hours?
This is the year the Blue Corduroy jacket was adopted as our official dress.
What is 1933?
This is the relative humidity turkeys should be kept at.
What is 50-70%?
In a developing embryo, the inner layer of cells is termed this.
What is Endoderm?
This is the most biologically secure way to dispose of poultry carcasses.
What is incineration?
This is the removal of the comb, often by surgical means.
What is Dubbing?
The year the National FFA Radio Program on NBC launched.
What is 1931?
This is the most popular and inexpensive sanitizer used in turkey houses.
What is Chlorine?
This is the day of incubation in which all the muscles of the chick are in place.
What is day 10?
This type of composting involves litter being placed in one end of a shallow concrete channel and a roto-tiller machine travels the length of the channel, mixing the contents and gradually moving the material from one end to the other.
What is In-vessel composting?
This color of light is used to control cannibalism in poultry.
What is Red light?
This is the year that the NFA and FFA official merged, resulting in the "end" of the NFA after 30 years.
What is 1965?