Poultry Terms
This is the name commonly used for a meat chicken
What is a broiler
This state is #1 for broiler production in the U.S
What is Georgia?
This facility is designed and specially constructed facility that controls each stage of raising chicks.
What is a hatchery?
a spur is this
What is a point on the back of a rooster's leg
This is the term for a baby chicken.
What is a chick
This state is #2 for broiler production in the U.S
What is Arkansas?
This is where pullets about 20 weeks old are placed with roosters to produce fertilized eggs.
What is a breeder farm?
This is an immature female chicken
This state is #3 in the U.S for broiler production.
What is Alabama?
This type of production method is where every step in the production cycle is managed.
What is vertical integration?
The fleshy, red growth on top of a chickens head
What is a comb?
This is the term for a group of chickens.
What is a flock
This state is #4 in the U.S for broiler production.
What is North Carolina?
This is the number of days chicken eggs must be incubated for.
What is 21
What is the body part called where the feces exits in a chicken?
What is the cloaca?
This is the term for a castrated male chicken
What is a capon
This state is #5 in the U.S for broiler production
What is Mississippi?
How many egg producing companies are located in the U.S?
What is 172
This is the part of the chicken digestive system where stones are used to grind up feed.
What is the crop?