Chicken breeding and hatching, conventional rearing system {AU}| chicken breeding and hatching | AusLCI, U
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This dataset represent the breeding and hatching process, including the rearing of parent birds, fertile egg production and hatchery processes. Information was collected from seven vertically integrated poultry producers based in Australia. This dataset is built using information reported in Copley and Wiedemann (2022). It was developed as part of the LCAgMetrics project, a partnership between Agrifutures Australia and Lifecycles, funded by the Australian Government's Sustainability Reporting Uplift Grant as part of the National Agriculture Traceability Grants Program. Documentation for this dataset can be found in the 'LCAgMetrics Methodology for developing Life Cycle Inventory' report, available at https://agrifutures.com.au/ This activity starts at the rearing of the parent birds and ends with chicks ready for the grow-out phase. Production volume: Undefined Reference flow: 1000 day-old chicks Energy value: Undefined Nutritional value: Undefined Geography: Australia Technology level: Current Time period: 2020-2025 Record: Paul-Antoine Bontinck; Tel: +61(0)3 9417 1190; email: office@lifecycles.com.au; company: Life Cycle Strategies; Country: AU Generator: Paul-Antoine Bontinck; Tel: +61(0)3 9417 1190; email: office@lifecycles.com.au; company: Life Cycle Strategies; Country: AU
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Environmental impacts of Australian chicken meat/2022/Copley
Product outputs
| Flow | Amount | Unit | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken breeding and hatching, conventional rearing system {AU}| chicken breeding and hatching | AusLCI, U | 1000.0 | Item(s) | Carbon content, fossil: 0.0 kg C/kg dry mass. Carbon content, non-fossil: 0.192 kg C/kg dry mass. Dry mass: 0.3 kg/kg wet mass. Wet mass: 1 kg/kg wet mass. |
Technical inputs
| Flow | Amount | Unit | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken feed {AU}| market for chicken feed | AusLCI, U | 385.9 | kg | — |
| Diesel, burned in agricultural machinery {GLO}| market for diesel, burned in agricultural machinery | Cut-off, U | 10.26 | MJ | — |
| Diesel, burned in agricultural machinery {GLO}| market for diesel, burned in agricultural machinery | Cut-off, U | 96.5 | MJ | — |
| Electricity, low voltage {AU}| market for electricity, low voltage | AusLCI, U | 139.8 | kWh | — |
| Heat, liquefied petroleum gas, at industrial furnace >100kW/MJ/RER/adapted {AU}| | AusLCI, U | 234.0 | MJ | — |
| Tap water, at user, Australia {AU}| | AusLCI, U | 2301.7 | kg | — |
Elementary flow outputs
| Flow | Compartment | Sub-compartment | Amount | Unit | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon dioxide, non-fossil | Emission to air | unspecified | 128.93364 | kg | Respiration of breeding flock and hatchlings |
Parameters
| Name | Value | Formula | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BioC_Inputs | 135.8368 | feed*CC_chickenfeed*DM_chickenfeed | — |
| feed | 385.9 | — | [kg] As reported in Table 3 of Copley and Wiedemann (2022) |
| electricity | 139.8 | — | [kWh] As reported in Table 3 of Copley and Wiedemann (2022) |
| DM_chickenfeed | 0.8 | — | estimate |
| CC_chickenfeed | 0.44 | — | — |
| DM_hatchling | 0.319 | — | — |
| EDV_diesel | 38.6 | — | [MJ/litres] |
| BioC_Respiration | 128.93364 | BioC_Inputs-BioC_outputs | — |
| M_hatchling | 0.04 | — | Estimate in kg from google |
| diesel | 2.5 | — | [litres] As reported in Table 3 of Copley and Wiedemann (2022) |
| CC_hatchling | 0.541 | — | (2,3,3,1,1,na) Carbon content 0.541 of animal as DM. (Average carbon content of 0.175 C/kg liveweight assuming dressing of 63%, carcase composition of 70% meat, 20% fat and 10% bone; dry matter content of 15% by-product (blood, rumen, heads and hooves), 25% meat, 85% fat and 74% bone; and carbon content of 53% by-product, 53% meat, 76% fat and 7.5% bone.) |
| water | 2301.7 | — | [litres] As reported in Table 3 of Copley and Wiedemann (2022) |
| LPG | 234.0 | — | [MJ] As reported in Table 3 of Copley and Wiedemann (2022) |
| gasoline | 0.3 | — | [litres] As reported in Table 3 of Copley and Wiedemann (2022) |
| BioC_outputs | 6.903160000000001 | M_hatchling*DM_hatchling*CC_hatchling*1000 | — |
| EDV_gasoline | 34.2 | — | [MJ/litres] |