Poultry breeds
This poultry breed comes from North America and is popular for an American holiday.
What is a turkey?
The yellow part of the egg that nourishes the embryo.
What is the yolk?
This is a part of a chicken that they use to peck and eat.
What is a beak?
This chicken by-product is used as a soil amendment.
What are eggshells?
Done during incubation to see if the chick is developing
What is candling?
This poultry breed comes from Spain and has soft feathers with a crest that makes it hard for them to see.
What is a Polish Chicken?
The pocket of air that grows as the chick develops to let it have it first breath of air.
What is the air cell?
These flaps of skin hanging from under a chicken's throat help regulate body temperature.
What is the Wattles?
These chicken by-products are used as an absorbent
What is the shell membrane?
The normal amount of time an egg takes to incubate.
What is 21 days?
The breed comes from New England and is good for laying eggs, with feathers that are red and black in color.
What is the Rhode Island Red?
The hard outside of the egg that keeps out bacteria.
What is a shell?
This part of a chicken is often referred to as the knee or ankle.
What is the hock?
This chicken by-product is used as a stabilizer
What is the blood?
The temperature an egg needs to be at to incubate
What is 99.5F
This poultry breed comes from China, with white feathers and a yellow bill, and is used for meat.
What is the Pekin duck?
The layer between the eggshell and the egg white.
What are shell membranes?
This fleshy crest on top of the head helps to regulate body temperature and indicates health and sexual maturity.
What is the comb?
This chicken by-product is used in Livestock feed.
What is fat?
When the chick uses its egg tooth to break the internal membrane and then the shell.
What is pipping?
This poultry breed comes from New York and has all black feathers, bill, and legs.
What is the Cayuga
This part of the egg is also called the egg white.
What is the albumen?
The opening under the tail is used for urination, defecation, and laying eggs.
What is the vent?
This chicken by-product is used to make musical instrument strings
What are the Intestines
The amount of time a chick should remain in the incubator after hatching.
What is 12-24 hours?