egg production
Poultry farm yield
Egg production is the process of raising poultry, typically chickens, for their eggs.
The term encompasses both commercial operations—massive facilities housing thousands of hens—and small-scale farming: The farm shifted from dairy to egg production.
It also refers to the biological process by which a hen's body creates eggs, or more broadly, any animal's output of eggs: Stress can reduce egg production in the flock.
- poultry farmingRaising domestic birds commercially
- oogenesisFemale reproductive cell development
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
- ovulationEgg discharge from ovary
- candlingInspecting by backlight
backyard flock · egg carton · sunny side up · sustainability · reproductive hormones · fertilization · carbon footprint · eggs · coop · nest box · incubation · organic certification · battery cages · animal welfare · poultry · hatchery · pecking · pecking order
- poultry traitsegg size, feather color, broodiness, temperament, egg laying
- farm statisticscrop loss, corn yield, farm loans, farm subsidies, farm wages
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, farming
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
- rural industriesdairy, ranching, farming, forestry, livestock breeding
- Poultry Farmingducks, geese, duck eggs, goose eggs, duckling
egg productionmeat production
Raising and processing livestock
beef production · pork production · dairy farming · milk production · dairy production