Anatomy
The organ in a hen's reproductive tract that produces eggs
What is the ovary?
Is hard and protects the embryo when it is developing.
What is the egg shell?
Temperature at which chicken eggs are incubated.
What is 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Black breed of chicken at SES.
What is the Australorp?
Number of days a newly hatched chick can live without food or water.
What is 3?
Where fertilization occurs in a bird's reproductive tract.
What is the infundibulum?
True or False. Brown eggs and White eggs are different nutritionally.
What is false?
Number of days a chicken egg is incubated.
What is 21 days?
The buff colored breed of chicken at SES.
What is buff orpington?
Method by which you will receive day-old chicks ordered from a hatchery.
What is by mail? (through the post office)
Where the shell is formed in the bird's reproductive tract.
What is the uterus?
On average, the number of eggs a domesticated chicken can lay in one year.
What is 250-270 eggs per year?
Type of water we use in an incubator.
What is distilled water?
The most common breed of chicken used in commercial egg production in the U.S.
What is the Single Comb White Leghorn?
What chicks use on the tip of their beak to help crack the egg when hatching.
What is an egg tooth?
The common opening for reproductive, digestive, and urinary systems in birds.
What is the cloaca?
The egg shell is made of this material.
What is calcium carbonate?
What a chicken does about 70 times per day naturally while incubating her eggs.
What is turn her eggs?
Breed of chicken that lays eggs with shells that are green, blue, pink, or multi-colored.
What is the Easter Egger breed?
Temperature that must be provided to newly hatched chicks.
What is 95 degrees Fahrenheit?
Part of a rooster's reproductive tract that transports sperm to the cloaca.
What is the vas deferens?
Part of the egg where fertilization occurs and the embryo develops.
What is the germ spot or germinal disc?
The term for when a chick first cracks the shell when it starts to hatch.
What is pipping?
Number of chicken breeds recognized by the American Poultry Association.
What is 56 chicken breeds?
How to tell if a chick is male or female a few days after they have hatched.
What is feather sexing?