This breed of poultry is good for both laying eggs & meat. They have a docile personality...
What is Buff Orpington?
Name at least 4 basic colors of chicken eggs.
What is...brown, white, cream, blue, pink, or green?
Name at least one disease that affects egg quality.
What is Egg Drop Syndrome (EDS), Infectious Bronchitis (IB), or Newcastle disease?
The soft fine covering of a baby chick is called this...
What is down feathers?
True or false?
A hen does not lay eggs without a rooster in the coop.
What is false?
Bantam eggs are "this" compared to regular eggs...
What is smaller?
Name at least 3 causes of misshapen eggs.
What is stress, disease, poor nutrition, or physiological issues?
Name something that causes stress in chickens.
What is overcrowding, predators, catching, or vaccination?
The body part of a chicken which tells the color the egg the chicken will lay.
What is the earlobe?
You can give this to help chickens laying thin or soft shelled eggs...
What are calcium-enriched grit, oyster shells, or crushed eggshells.
The term for chickens that are good layers, but also good for meat.
What is dual purpose?
The number of weeks or days it takes for a chicken to hatch.
What is 21 days or 3 weeks?
A type of deficiency that causes misshapen eggs, usually round or ball shaped.
What is calcium deficiency?
This happens when you clip a chicken's wing...
What is no flight, or cannot fly?
As hens age, they become more prone to elongated or dented eggs? True or false?
What is true?
* This is due to egg size increasing leading to pressure in the oviduct (where eggs are formed).
Name a breed of chicken that lays blue or green eggs.
What is the Araucana, Ameraucana, Easter Egger, Olive Egger, Blue Egger, Cream Legbar, or Isbar?
Chickens begin laying eggs around this age of life ...
What is 16-20 weeks, or 6 months?
Infectious Bronchitis causes the part of the egg to be "watery"...
What is the egg white?
An infection in this body part can lead to reduced egg production & abnormal egg shapes.
What is the oviduct?
Name at least 3 reasons a hen might not be laying.
What is too young, too old, sick, cold weather, or molting?
Name 5 breeds of poultry...
What is...
Bantam, Orpington, Ameraucana, Araucana, Plymounth Rock, Marans, Australorp, Wyandotte, Sussex, Comets, Barnevelder, Silkie, Polish, Leghorn, Sebright, Jersey Giant, etc.
Name at least 4 types of egg abnormalities.
What is misshapen (round, ball, elongated, dented), thin/soft shelled, wrinkled, or double-yolked?
The term for the bacterial (*not viral) disease that causes misshapen eggs. Hint: Begins with an "M"
What is mycoplasmosis?
The yellow circle shows this part of the chicken...
What is the waddle?
The term used to describe a young hen, less than one year old.
What is a pullet?