Assosa University

School of post graduate study

Assignment for the course poultry production /2015
1. Please try to discuss the impacts of the current and future prospects/threats of poultry
industry in the tropics?
2. Please try to justify the need of poultry production for the ever increasing global
population number!
3. What are the advantages of poultry production over other livestock in response to ever
increasing demand of animal protein in developing countries?

4. What are the immense areas of development in modern poultry production system?
5. What are the constraints of poultry industry in developing countries?
6. What measures are expected from the government in order to promote the poultry
industry in Ethiopia?

7. What are the opportunities of the development of poultry industry in Ethiopia?

8. What type of poultry production system can the developing world practice in relation to
self in sufficiency of food grains?

9. Write the internal and the external egg structures and with their special importance for the
developing embryo?
10. Please try to justify the importance of each parts of the hen oviduct in the process of
formation of egg!
11. What will happen for the incubated chicken egg under high Temperature, low humidity
and if no ventilation and turning?
12. What are the four physical factors important for both natural and artificial incubation for
optimum hatchability? Discuss each in detail!
13. What is the effect of higher temperature on egg shell quality?
14. What is the effect of nutrition on egg shell quality?
15. Write the effects of aging on egg shell, whole albumen and yolk!
16. Discuss the factors responsible for the deterioration of internal egg quality parameters?
17. Please try to write the method of measuring yolk color of chicken egg!
18. What is fertility? and what makes it different from hatchability?
19. Discuss about feed restriction in grower chicks! Molting and phase feeding in layer
chickens!
20. What is the economic benefit of Phase feeding in layer feeding program? Discuss its!
21. What are the factors affecting fertility?
22. Write the reason for feed restriction of grower chicks!
23. What are the production traits in in layer chicken?
24. What are the reproduction traits in poultry production?
25. Write about the methods to measure the quality of day old chicks!
26. Write about the use of poultry waste material!
27. Write about alternative chicken feed resources!

Good luck