Title: Evaluate production systems for poultry.
Course: Livestock Production Management (18301-II) > Section: Producing Poultry

Evaluation should include

- defining broilers and layers
- defining vertical integration
- identifying the three general types of chicken enterprises
- exploring the recent popularity of small backyard poultry flocks
- explaining alternative production processes.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What aspects of production does the company own and control, and what does the grower supply in most vertical integration contracts?
- How much of modern broiler production in the United States is integrated?
- Why are U.S. export markets important regarding broilers but not eggs?
- How have consumer trends in the consumption of poultry changed production over the last 30 years?
- What are some advantages and disadvantages of raising poultry?