Fun Facts
Mrs. M&M has raised these two poultry species
What are chickens and turkeys?
Most common egg breed
What is the single comb white leghorn?
Pigment loss in the feet, beak, eye ring, and vent.
What is bleaching?
Perfect carcass grade
A mature male chicken
What is a rooster?
Mrs. M&M wants this poultry species on our school far
What is an emu?
Bonus: What does Quaid want?
Most common meat breed
What is the cornish cross?
We judge broilers for this
The carcass is missing a wing tip
What is Grade A?
A baby turkey
What is a poult?
Difference between broilers and roasters
Dual purpose breed from Australia
What is the Australorp?
You look at these three parts for color and health
What are the comb, wattle, and eye?
The carcass is missing a drumstick
What is no grade?
The "stomach" that grinds chicken feed
What is the gizzard?
HACCP stands for
Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points
This show breed is from Poland and have epic "hairdos"
What are Polish chickens?
We measure this with between the hip bones, keel bone, and spine?
Grade when there are cuts in the flesh
What is no grade?
Process of removing internal organs
What is evisceration?
Mrs. M&M raised these poultry breeds
What are leghorn, rhode island reds, barred rock, buffs, cornish, red broiler, polish, ameracauna, silkies
This makes Ameraucana chickens special
What are colorful eggs?
The natural process of chickens shedding their feathers to grow new feathers.
What is molting?
What you judge if both birds are the same grade
What is muscling?
An unsexed male chicken
What is a capon?