Question

In poultry industry, production of hatching eggs is more expensive than the production of market eggs mainly because
A. Cost of males and their depreciation value is high.
B. Mortality among females is usually lower when they are mated with males.
C. Number of eggs produced by hatchery flock are to be sold only as market eggs.
D. Some of the eggs produced by hatchery flocks are not acceptable for incubation.

Answer 1

Poultry farming is one of the most common forms of animal husbandry. It generally produced domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese. The purpose of poultry farming is to produce meat or eggs for food.

Complete step by step answer: The poultry industry is one of the important industries where the birds are farmed domestically or commercially. This farming is mainly done for meat and eggs and sometimes also for feathers. Chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese are primarily farmed in the hatcheries. Guinea fowl and squabs are also farmed. In the poultry industry of chicken, the commercial hens usually start to lay eggs at the age of 16–21weeks. But egg production starts to decrease gradually from the age of 25 weeks.
In many countries, flocks are considered economically viable at the age of 72 weeks and they are killed after 12 months of egg production. Generally, the chickens can live for 6 or more years.
In the poultry industry, it is more expensive to produce the hatching egg. This is caused due to eggs requiring a favorable temperature for incubation. But the main problem is the weight of the hatching egg and chick weight.
Under a good condition of egg storage and incubation chick weight is maybe 67-69 percent of hatching egg weight. That means the chick weight will be uniform if the egg weight is uniform. So, the uniformity of the breeder fixes the uniformity of the hatching eggs which means the more uniform is the breeder flock the egg weights will be more uniform.
Therefore, some of the hatched eggs produced by hatchery flocks are rejected as these cannot be taken for incubation. Thus, the production of hatching eggs is more very much expensive than the production of market eggs which does not make the process very cost effective.
Therefore, the correct option is option D.

Note: The poultry industry is a growing industry worldwide as it has great economic value. Generally, there are chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese that are farmed for the purpose of meat and egg production. As the eggs laid by these hatchery flocks are cannot be taken for incubation and are not acceptable for incubation due to their weight, so the production of hatching eggs is much more expensive than the production of market eggs.