General
Chicks
Health
Maketing
Judging
100
The most common breed used for meat
What is the Cornish Rock Cross
100
This should be at least 20-23% in your feed
What is protein
100
These form on your market bird if you don't keep your litter clean
What are breast blisters
100
The day of the week that the Meat Animal Sale always occurs
What is Friday
100
The ideal shape of a meat bird
What is rectangle
200
A male or female chicken up to the age of eight weeks bred especially for production of meat
What is a broiler
200
Provide this to your chicks for at least 23 hours a day
What is light
200
True or False: It is ok to put your market birds in the same pen with your other poultry.
What is False. To prevent disease and illness, do not put your broilers in the same pen with or in a pen close to other poultry.
200
The minimum weight a market bird needs to weigh to be eligible for the Meat Animal Sale
What is 6 pounds
200
This should be well developed and evenly muscled on either side of the keel bone
What is the breast
300
These must be mailed or given to all buyers and a copy must be in your Market Record envelope
What are Thank You notes
300
This should be 3-4 inches deep and be changed at least weekly
What is litter/bedding/wood shavings
300
This can cause sudden heart attacks in broilers
What is stress
300
The number of market birds in each pen at the fair
What is 2
300
These should be "meaty", well filled out, with no swollen joints
What are the legs
400
Cost of 1 market chick
What is $1.50
400
This is the most important thing to never let run out and it should always be kept clean
What is water
400
Due to their fast rate of growth, these may break
What are their legs
400
This is the first pen of birds that are auctioned off at the Meat Animal Sale
What is the Grand Champion
400
This is not quite as important as with "show birds" but should be reasonably clean and complete
What is feather quality
500
Time and day that all birds must be on the fairgrounds
What is Sunday at noon
500
This is the temperature your brooder should start at, then decrease it by 5 degrees each week
What is 95
500
This is the period of time that must pass between the last treatment of medicine and the time the animal may be slaughtered
What is withdrawal time
500
Every Market Poultry Project Member is required to secure at least 3 of these by the first weigh-in day at the fair
What are bidders/buyers
500
This is the first thing the judge looks at when looking at a pen of 2 or more market birds
What is uniformity (same as each other)
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