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What is the function of the vent? Is it common in poultry? |
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It is the uro-genital opening of the bird, the external portion of the cloaca. All poutlry have one. It is where the egg, uric acid and the feces all exit. |
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In order for a femal to lay eggs, does she need the presence of a male? |
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No, only for fertile eggs to be produced. |
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In what part of the hens reproductive tract is the shell produced? |
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What is the difference between a Pullet and Hen? |
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Pullet is a young female, hen is a femal that has laid eggs for about 6 months. |
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What is the difference between a Rooster and Cockerel? |
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A cockerel is a young male, and rooster is a mature male. A capon is a castrated male chicken. |
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What is the importance of calcium in the diets of laying hens? |
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Needed for the calcium of the egg shell. |
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What precautions must be taken when you introduce new birds into your flock? |
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First check for disease, next quarantine for 3 weeks and check for any symptoms. |
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What are the differences between the plumage of most adult male and female chickens? |
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Male: long sharp hack feathers, saddle feathers and sicle feathers on tail. Female: short, blunt hackle feathers, no saddle feathers and no sickle feathers. |
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Other, than feathers, what other anatomical features are unique to the male chicken? |
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Larger comb and wattles, coloring, spurs. |
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If you found external parasites how should you treat them? |
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Use a spray such as Sevin for powder or liquid to get rid of the parasites. (Other natural methods will suffice also) |
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| What are the two other names for the breast bone of chickens? |
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| How many eggs can a hen potentially lay in one year? |
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| What nutrient do chickens and other poultry require each day? |
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| Protein, carbohydrate, fat, minerals, vitamins, water, oxygen |
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| What are the most common feed ingredients used in poultry diets in the US? |
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| It has been said that eggs are in almost perfect food, however they are missing one vitamin, what is it? |
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| What does the depth of the body indicate? |
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| Size of abdomen and ability hold a forming egg? |
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| What does the width of body indicate |
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| Size of body across the pelvic bones, room for egg |
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| Why do we measure flexibility of the pubic bones? |
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| To see if they will open enough for an egg to pass? |
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| Why does the judge ask to see the feet and legs of birds? |
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| To check for deformities and disease and for parasites. |
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| What does molt mean relative to chickens? |
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| Lose feathers, reproduction stops, renews bird for another reproduction cycle. |
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| Why should birds be removed from and replaced into cages head first? |
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| Prevent possible wing damage, to maintain control? |
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| What is the function of the uropygial (preen) gland? |
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| Produces an oily substance the bird wipes onto its feathers with its beak, for preening. For ducks and waterfowl it it helps to waterfproof their feathers |
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| Which of the nutrients, other than oxygen, should poultry have free access to at all times? |
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| Do chickens ever have teeth? |
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| Yes, egg tooth at hatch to help break through the shell. |
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| What does "dual purpose" mean relative to chickens? |
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| Can be used for both meat and egg production, like Rhode Island Res, New hampshires, white and barred plymoth rocks, etc... |
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| What does bleaching mean relative to chickens? |
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| It refers to the order of loss of skin color, in laying hens, particularly leghorn type birds, where the yellow pigment of the skin fades to white as the pigment is used to color the yolk. Order of bleaching, vent, eyering and ear lobes, beak bottom of feet, front of shanks, back of shanks, tops of toes, hock joints, when birds stop laying eggs they replace pigment in reverse order. |
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| Where does the yellow color of the skin, beak and shanks of chickens come from? |
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| Xanthophyll from corn and grass they eat. |
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| What color eggs do Rhode Island Red's, New Hampshire's and Sex Linked chickens lay? |
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| What breed(s) of chicken lays blue-green eggs? |
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| Araucana, Ameraucana, and Easter Eggers |
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| What needs to be supplied in an artificial incubator to hatch eggs? |
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| Heat, humidity and Turning |
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| How long is the incubation period for Chickens? |
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| How long is the incubation period for Turkeys? |
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| How long is the incubation period for ducks? |
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| How long is the incubation period for geese? |
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| How long is the incubation period for muscovy? |
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| At what temperature should most chicken eggs be incubated/ |
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| What is the purpose of turning eggs in an incubator? |
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| Keep embryo from sticking to membranes and causing malformations of the embryo |
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| Why should incubators be "fumigated" or Disinfected prior to use? |
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| To remove any bacteria, virus or mold organisms that might infect the eggs being hatched. |
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