The way an egg should be stored to retain freashness
What is point down, or wide end up?
100
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is
What is 13 seconds?
200
How many feathers make up the wing?
What is 21?
200
A bird with crimped, wild feathers
What is a frizzle.
200
It takes a hen this many hours to lay an egg
What is 24-26 hours
200
Two reasons chickens lose their feathers
What are stress and molting
300
The long feathers on the tail
What are sickle feathers
300
Name 3 disqualifications
What are
Stubs or feathers on shanks or between toes
Leg and toe color foreign to breed
Decidedly squirrel tailed or decided wry tail
Slipped wing, split wing or clipped wing
Twisted main feather in wing or tail
Entire absence of male tail feathers
Side sprig on single comb
Split comb
Comb foreign to breed
Rose comb falling to one side.
Absence of spike on rose comb varieties
Crooked backs
Deformed beaks
Bowed legs or knock-kneed (matter of degree)
Entire absence of spurs on cock birds.
Brown or buff quills of primary or secondaries in white varieties.
Foreign color in any part of plumage of white varieties
In all breeds having weight clauses
300
On average, a hen lays this many eggs a year
What is 300
300
Name a breed of chicken that has 5 toes on each foot
What is(are) Silkies, Dorkings, Faverolle, Houden, and Sultan
400
The middle feather in the wing, between the Primaries and the Secondaries
What is the Axial Feather
400
Name the types of combs (there are seven)
What are Single, Rose, Pea, V, Cushion, Buttercup, And Strawberry.
400
The way of determining an eggs color before it is layed
What is the color of the earlobes?
400
The Latin name for chickens (also the genus and species)
What is Gallus Domesticus
500
The widest part of the back
What is the saddle
500
Name the Bantam show classes (there are seven)
What are Old English Game, Modern Game, Single Comb Clean Legged, Rose Comb Clean Legged, All other comb Clean Legged, Feather Legged, Bantam Duck.
500
The egg whites other name
What is the Albumen
500
Define a heritage breed (and give an example)
What are breed that have been accepted into the American Poultry association for 50+ years
Ameracuanas
Anconas
Andalusians
Araucanas
Aseels
Australorps
Barnevelders
Brahmas
Buckeyes
Campines
Catalanas
Chanteclers
Cochins
Cornish
Crevecoeurs
Cubalayas
Delawares
Dominiques
Dorkings
Faverolles
Fayoumis
Hamburgs
Hollands
Houdans
Javas
Jersy Giants
La Fleche
Lakenvelders
Lamonas
Langshans
Leghorns
Malays
Minorcas
Modern Games
Naked Necks
New Hampshires
Old English Games
Orpingtons
Phoenix
Plymouth Rocks
Polish
Red Caps
Rhode Island Reds
Rhode Island Whites
Sicilian Buttercups
Sultans
Sumatras
Sussex
White Faced Spanish
Wyandottes
Yokohamas