Eggs and Feeding
Types of Chickens
Anatomy and Reproduction
Health
Care and Misc.
100
Eggs have every nutrient humans need except this one.
What is Vitamin C?
100
Rhode Island Red, Barred Rock, and Buff Orpington chickens lay this color egg.
What is brown?
100
This chicken has a very long one of these.
What is a wattle?
100
These are the two most common external parasites.
What are mites and lice?
100
Chickens should always enter and leave cages in this direction to prevent injury.
What is head first?
200
These are the two most common ingredients in poultry food sold in the USA.
What are corn and soybeans.
200
APA and ABA stand for these organization names.
What are American Poultry Association and American Bantam Association?
200
This is the temperature most chicken eggs should be incubated.
What is 99 degrees?
200
These are three signs of good health in chickens.
What are (3 of following): alert, active, clear eyes, good manure consistency, no external parasites?
200
This is the name for a male chicken less than 1 year of age.
What is a cockerel?
300
This is the type of food you feed YOUR chickens and the protien percentage.
What is DuMor Layer pellets, and 17 percent protein.
300
Name 3 of the 9 different types of chicken combs.
single, rose, pea, cushion, strawberry, buttercup, carnation, and V-shaped
300
Pubic bones of a hen are measured to determine this.
What is the ability to pass an egg?
300
Instead of putting pants on your chicken to keep them clean, you should instead be sure keep their housing free of what?
What are pests and excess manure?
300
This is the main identification between an adult male turkey and a female turkey.
What is a snood and/or a beard and/or size?
400
You can tell what color of egg a chicken lays by looking at this.
What is the earlobe.
400
These two breeds lay blue-green eggs.
What are Aracauna and Ameracauna
400
The spur of a rooster is attached to this chicken body part.
What is the shank?
400
This nutritional deficiency could be the cause of a crooked sternum in a chicken.
What is Rickets (Vitamin D)?
400
Name two predators of backyard poultry.
What are (pick 2): foxes, coyotes, cats, dogs, raccoons, weasels, hawks, owls, skunks
500
In order to have eggs year-round, you will need to control this environmental factor.
What is light?
500
This is the breed AND variety of your bird.
What is French Marans and Black Copper?
500
This is the maximum number of hens for one nest box.
What is 5?
500
(Lvl2) This is the reason laying hens need calcium in their diets.
What is producing strong egg shells and a strong skeleton?
500
This is how you can tell if baby chicks under a brooder light have the correct temperature.
They are not too bunched up under the lamp or too spread our from it. They are evenly spaced. These chicks are too cold!
