Miscellaneous
Anatomy
Showmanship
Biosecurity
Numbers
100

This is what a male chicken under one year of age is called.

What is a cockerel?

100

These are the feathers that cover the base of the primary and secondary wing feathers.

What are the covert feathers?

100

This is how a bird should be placed into a cage.

What is Head First?

100

This is the best disease prevention in a Poultry flock.

What is good sanitation? (Clean coop)

100

This is how many secondary feathers are on each wing.

What is 14-18?

200

This is where the crop is located

What is ... Under the throat on top of chest?

200

This is the collective term for the feather covering of a bird.

What is plumage?

200

This is what "width of body" indicates.

What is the size of the abdomen and ability to hold a forming egg?

200

These are 2 diseases that chickens can get.

What are Marek's Disease, Avian Influenza, Salmonellosis, Avian Pox, Newcastle Disease, Infectious Bronchitis, Necrotic Enteritis, and Coccidiosis?

200

This is the percentage of protein that should be in feed fed to a flock of laying hens.

What is 16-18%?

300

This is what BOV stands for.

What is Best of Variety?

300

Name three 5-toed breeds of chickens

Silkies, Dorkings, Faverolles, Houdans, Sultans

300

This is why calcium is important in the diet of laying hens.

Calcium is needed for producing the egg shell and for developing and maintaining a strong skeletal system.

300

These are examples of Ectoparasites.

What are lice, mites, and sticktight fleas?

300

This is the age when hens begin laying eggs.

What is 20 weeks?

400

Difference between "feather legged" and "booted"

Booted bantams have vulture hocks - this would be a disqualification in all other feather legged breeds

400

These are 5 comb types in chickens.

What are Single, Ride, Pea, Cushion, Buttercup, V, and Strawberry combs?

400

These are two reasons why the judge asks to show the wings.

How does the judge note wing color, absence of feathers, slipped wings, split wings and twisted feathers.

400

These are symptoms of disease or parasites.

What is emaciation, stunted or uneven growth, swelling, twitching or muscular spasms, trembling, paralysis, dehydration, nervousness, depigmentation, watery, red, inflamed or closed eyes, discharge from the nostrils, swelling... and more.

400

This is how many breeds of bantams the APA recognizes.

What is 61? 

500

These are the four basic parts of an egg.

What are the shell, she'll membranes, the albumen, and the yolk?

500

This is the common chamber for the digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems.

What is the cloaca?

500

This is the difference between "blue" and "self blue"

"Self Blue" feathering has even color over the entire feather.

500

This is the first thing I do if one of my birds shows signs of sickness.

What is isolation? 

500

This is the incubation period for peacocks.

What is 28 days?

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