Breeds
Eggs
Health
Anatomy
General Poultry
100
This breed of poultry is good for both laying eggs & meat. They have a docile personality...
What is Buff Orpington?
100
Name at least 4 basic colors of chicken eggs.
What is...brown, white, cream, blue, pink, or green?
100
Name at least one disease that affects egg quality.
What is Egg Drop Syndrome (EDS), Infectious Bronchitis (IB), or Newcastle disease?
100
The soft fine covering of a baby chick is called this...
What is down feathers?
100
True or false?
A hen does not lay eggs without a rooster in the coop.
What is false?
200
Bantam eggs are "this" compared to regular eggs...
What is smaller?
200
Name at least 3 causes of misshapen eggs.
What is stress, disease, poor nutrition, or physiological issues?
200
Name something that causes stress in chickens.
What is overcrowding, predators, catching, or vaccination?
200
The body part of a chicken which tells the color the egg the chicken will lay.
What is the earlobe?
200
You can give this to help chickens laying thin or soft shelled eggs...
What are calcium-enriched grit, oyster shells, or crushed eggshells.
300
The term for chickens that are good layers, but also good for meat.
What is dual purpose?
300
The number of weeks or days it takes for a chicken to hatch.
What is 21 days or 3 weeks?
300
A type of deficiency that causes misshapen eggs, usually round or ball shaped.
What is calcium deficiency?
300
This happens when you clip a chicken's wing...
What is no flight, or cannot fly?
300
As hens age, they become more prone to elongated or dented eggs? True or false?
What is true?
* This is due to egg size increasing leading to pressure in the oviduct (where eggs are formed).
400
Name a breed of chicken that lays blue or green eggs.
What is the Araucana, Ameraucana, Easter Egger, Olive Egger, Blue Egger, Cream Legbar, or Isbar?
400
Chickens begin laying eggs around this age of life ...
What is 16-20 weeks, or 6 months?
400
Infectious Bronchitis causes the part of the egg to be "watery"...
What is the egg white?
400
An infection in this body part can lead to reduced egg production & abnormal egg shapes.
What is the oviduct?
400
Name at least 3 reasons a hen might not be laying.
What is too young, too old, sick, cold weather, or molting?
500
Name 5 breeds of poultry...
What is...
Bantam, Orpington, Ameraucana, Araucana, Plymounth Rock, Marans, Australorp, Wyandotte, Sussex, Comets, Barnevelder, Silkie, Polish, Leghorn, Sebright, Jersey Giant, etc.
500
Name at least 4 types of egg abnormalities.
What is misshapen (round, ball, elongated, dented), thin/soft shelled, wrinkled, or double-yolked?
500
The term for the bacterial (*not viral) disease that causes misshapen eggs. Hint: Begins with an "M"
What is mycoplasmosis?
500
The yellow circle shows this part of the chicken...
What is the waddle?
500
The term used to describe a young hen, less than one year old.
What is a pullet?