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How frequently does your family have chicken or eggs at a meal? Where does it come from? Poultry farmers can be divided into two categories:
Egg farmers | Table fowl farmers | |
Definition | Produce eggs to sell | Produce fowls that are slaughtered for their meat. |
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Chicks to be used for breeding are transferred to the breeding section when they are 21 weeks old. These hens and cocks are kept together in one breeding shed (ten hens to a cock). Eggs (hatching eggs) are laid in nests from week 22. Eggs are collected five times per day. Only some of the fertilised eggs are used for breeding. The cocks and the hens are fed a special diet and are sold, with the laying hens, when they are about 64 weeks old.
What is meant when someone talks about eggs laid in a hidden nest or hens laying eggs in hidden nests?
The learner will be able to use enquiry skills to investigate geographical and
environmental concepts and processes.
We know this when the learner:
1.6 uses information from sources (including own observations) to answer questions about people and places (e.g. “Why is it like that?”) [answers the question];
1.7 uses geographical and environmental concepts and terms to report on enquiries in different ways (e.g. writing a paragraph, using a poster, artwork).
Chicken is cheaper than red meat because:
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