Chicken breeds
The breed of chicken that we have for our program.
What is the Plymouth Rock chicken?
Chicken offspring
The poultry body part that is located on the side of the bird and allows them to fly.
What is the wing.
The grade of egg has a flatter yolk and thin egg whites that cover a large amount of area.
What is a grade B egg?
The process of being born for chickens.
What is hatching?
Part of the egg where all the fat is located and is the main source of food for developing chicks.
What is the yolk.
What are layers?
This chicken lays a distinct green egg.
What is the Olive Egger?
Mature female chicken
The top of the chickens leg where the feathers begin on most breeds.
What is the hock?
The best grade of egg
What is an AA egg?
This helps chicks to get out of the egg.
This is where the baby chick develops and it contains all of the protein in an egg.
What is the albumen?
The term for chickens used for meat
What are broilers?
This breed has curled feathers as a result of a genetic abnormality.
What is the Frizzle?
Mature male chicken
What is a Rooster?
The body part that is on the top of a chickens head, usually red in color.
What is the comb.
Egg covers a moderate area, white is reasonably firm and has a considerable amount of thick white and a medium amount of thin white.
What is Grade A?
The number of eggs typically laid from birds used as layers.
Egg shells have pores to allow for this.
What is gas exchange ?
This is trimmed to prevent cannibalism or injury among laying hens.
What is the beak?
This large chicken breed is the biggest we studied, weighing 8 to 10 pounds.
What is the Brahma chicken?
Young female chicken
What is a pullet?
This body part grows under the chickens beak.
What are the wattles.
This grade of egg's air cell is the smallest.
What is Grade AA?
What is 21 days?
This is forms as the egg cools from 105 degrees after it is laid due to the contents of the egg contracting. It also gets larger as the egg gets older or in lower grade eggs.
What are air sacs or pockets?
Chicken breed that has 5 toes, black skin, and does not fly.
What is the Silkie chicken?
A young male chicken
What is a Cockeral?
The leg of the chicken.
What is the shank?
Grade of egg that has firm white with much thickness which surrounds the yolk that is round and upstanding
What is an AA egg?
This is why white colored birds are mostly used for broiler chickens.
What is because darker colored birds leave spots on their meat where the feathers have been removed.
This part of the egg is where the female DNA is located and this is what gets fertilized by the sperm
What is the germinal disc?
Poultry producers use this to trick chickens into thinking days are longer to increase the production of eggs.
What is light.
An all black chicken breed with large white ears.
What is the Minorca Chicken?
Casterated Male Chicken
What is a Capon?
The body part where feces and eggs come out of the chicken.
What is the vent?
This egg's air cell is quite large.
What is a grade B egg?
The six types of meat in the poultry industry.
What are chicken, duck, turkey, goose, quail, and guinea fowl?
These layers of the egg protect the egg from bacteria.
What are the inner and outer membranes?
What is a hatchery?