Miscellaneous
This is what a male chicken under one year of age is called.
What is a cockerel?
These are the feathers that cover the base of the primary and secondary wing feathers.
What are the covert feathers?
This is how a bird should be placed into a cage.
What is Head First?
This is the best disease prevention in a Poultry flock.
What is good sanitation? (Clean coop)
This is how many secondary feathers are on each wing.
What is 14-18?
This is where the crop is located
What is ... Under the throat on top of chest?
This is the collective term for the feather covering of a bird.
What is plumage?
This is what "width of body" indicates.
What is the size of the abdomen and ability to hold a forming egg?
These are 2 diseases that chickens can get.
What are Marek's Disease, Avian Influenza, Salmonellosis, Avian Pox, Newcastle Disease, Infectious Bronchitis, Necrotic Enteritis, and Coccidiosis?
This is the percentage of protein that should be in feed fed to a flock of laying hens.
What is 16-18%?
This is what BOV stands for.
What is Best of Variety?
Name three 5-toed breeds of chickens
Silkies, Dorkings, Faverolles, Houdans, Sultans
This is why calcium is important in the diet of laying hens.
Calcium is needed for producing the egg shell and for developing and maintaining a strong skeletal system.
These are examples of Ectoparasites.
What are lice, mites, and sticktight fleas?
This is the age when hens begin laying eggs.
What is 20 weeks?
Difference between "feather legged" and "booted"
Booted bantams have vulture hocks - this would be a disqualification in all other feather legged breeds
These are 5 comb types in chickens.
What are Single, Ride, Pea, Cushion, Buttercup, V, and Strawberry combs?
These are two reasons why the judge asks to show the wings.
How does the judge note wing color, absence of feathers, slipped wings, split wings and twisted feathers.
These are symptoms of disease or parasites.
What is emaciation, stunted or uneven growth, swelling, twitching or muscular spasms, trembling, paralysis, dehydration, nervousness, depigmentation, watery, red, inflamed or closed eyes, discharge from the nostrils, swelling... and more.
This is how many breeds of bantams the APA recognizes.
What is 61?
These are the four basic parts of an egg.
What are the shell, she'll membranes, the albumen, and the yolk?
This is the common chamber for the digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems.
What is the cloaca?
This is the difference between "blue" and "self blue"
"Self Blue" feathering has even color over the entire feather.
This is the first thing I do if one of my birds shows signs of sickness.
What is isolation?
This is the incubation period for peacocks.
What is 28 days?