Name: ____________________
Date:_____________________
Hour:_____________________
Worksheet:
Topic #3135
Poultry Nutrition
1.
Name the six nutrients poultry as well as mammals require: ____________,
____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________.
2.
Name the five ways in which the food that the chicken consumes is
used:____________, ____________, ____________, ____________,
____________.
3.
Poultry are more sensitive to nutrient needs because ____________,
____________, _____________.
4.
It is the ____________ in chickens that makes them especially sensitive to
nutritional deficiencies.
5.
____________ is the cheapest and most important of all of the nutrients.
6.
List the three things that water does in the chicken: ____________, ___________,
___________.
7.
Drinking water from ponds can ____________, ____________.
8.
The consumption of water for 1000 pullets at three weeks of age would be about
__________ a day.
9.
Sugars, starches and fiber are the most common forms in which ____________
are found in feeds.
10.
Excess carbohydrates turn to ____________.
11.
Fats contain about 2 1/4 times the energy value of ____________.
12.
Without essential fatty acids, birds exhibit ____________, _____________,
____________.
13.
Poultry consuming large amounts of fish oil or rancid fats produce what kind of
meat or eggs? ___________
14.
Proteins are needed for ____________and ____________.
15.
What form of protein cannot be broken down by chickens? ____________.
16.
When proteins are digested, ____________ are the end result.
17.
Any protein in excess of the amounts needed for growth and tissue repair is
burned and used to ___________.
18.
Minerals, unlike carbohydrates, fats and protein that are organic, are
_____________.
19.
Name the three macrominerals that are required in largest amounts:
____________, ____________, _____________.
20.
Calcium is required for ____________ and ____________.
21.
Lack of calcium causes ____________.
22.
What are a good source of calcium for laying hens? ____________,
____________
23.
____________ and ____________ are essential in maintaining electrolyte balance
in the body.
24.
Poultry deficient in sodium have ____________, ____________, ____________.
25.
Magnesium is important to the ____________ and ____________.
26.
Vitamins are essential in minute amounts for ____________, ____________,
____________.
27.
A source of ____________ is the largest single dietary need in poultry.
28.
Name the three steps to the use of food in the body: ____________,
_____________, __________.
29.
____________ make up the chief source of energy and the ration.