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how are chickens produced in a poultry farm?

o ya a stupid question i havent even got the answer 4 that plz reply have to do my project

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1. The framer buys the chicks from an suppler that sells them, to the farmer. Thy can also hatch the chicks from and egg as an off shoot from egg production. In ether case they eat their feed until a marketable weight then slaughtered ( sorry about the spelling. By checker went south for the winter). P.S. The only stupid question is the one that is not asked.
2. Farms usually have one rooster per every ten hens to keep the gene pool clean. They can't artificially impregnate a chicken, or any avian for that manner, because there is know way to collect semen from birds. Even if there was, it would be too difficult and too much of it to do. Other livestock like cows and horses are a different story. When eggs are hatched, workers collect the eggs. They write a number carefully on each eggs with a pencil. They put these eggs in incubators, which shine a warm light of 98 degrees Celsius. They each need to be turned twice a day on their sides so they develop right. They continue to rotate them until the few last days of their development. The workers allow them to hatch by themselves unless they see no movement in the eggs. Once they hatch, they are put in a different kind of incubator, similar to that for baby humans at hospitals. When chicks stop having their downy feather coats and start to develop adult like feathers. Then they are moved to a different enclosure, one with other semi-mature/teenage chicks. Once they are all both sexed and become sexually mature, they are either fed hormones or fattening grains and sold to slaughterhouses where they are , well, slaughtered. OR they are used in breeding more chicks. That's what they do in a factory farm. In a free ranging situation, they just have one male per every ten hens and let them run wild but they keep track of specimens and the gene pool to ensure healthy products from their farm.
3. Those large poultry farms use a facility called a chicken hatchery. These contain large machine which are no more than large bio-ovens. They have controlled temperature and humidity and rotate the eggs, just like in nature. You can buy small version of these at a local farm store. These are designed to hatch about 30 eggs. Remember you cant use store eggs, they are not fertile. http://www.cacklehatchery.com/default.html http://www.natureform.com/