Terminology
What is a rooster?
Intact mature male chicken.
What is the first step of digestion where chickens peck up food?
The beak.
What is a comb?
Growth of flesh on the top of the head that can be different shapes.
These chickens are generally one-quarter or one-fifth the size of regular chickens.
Bantams.
What are the long-curved tail feathers found on roosters?
Sickle Feathers.
What is a pullet?
A young female chicken under one year of age.
What is the storage pouch that softens food before digestion?
The crop.
What are caruncles?
The tentacle-like structures on a rooster’s comb that help regulate body temperature.
Where do Australorp chickens originate from?
Australia.
What feathers are rounded on hens but long and pointed on roosters?
Saddle Feathers.
What are broilers?
Poultry raised for meat and harvested at 6–8 weeks old.
What is the true stomach that secretes enzymes and hydrochloric acid?
The proventriculus.
What is one organ that both hens and roosters have?
Beak
Comb
Wattles
Feathers (plumage)
Wings
Shanks
Keel bone
Crop
Gizzard
Cloaca
Both have the same digestive and skeletal systems
What two colors are Ameraucana eggs?
Blue and Green.
What are hackle feathers?
These feathers are pointed in roosters and rounded in hens around the neck area.
What does it mean when a chicken is broody?
When a hen sits on eggs too long and becomes territorial.
What is another name for ventriculus?
Gizzard.
What is one organ that roosters have that hens don't?
Larger comb (usually)
Larger wattles
Spurs on legs (more developed)
Long pointed saddle feathers
Long curved sickle tail feathers
More pronounced hackle feathers
Testes (internal reproductive organs)
Larger body size (in most breeds)
What chicken breed is most commonly used in the FFA poultry CDE competition?
Leghorn.
Chickens use feathers to regulate body temperature because they lack these.
Sweat glands.
What is a straight run?
A chicken that has not been gendered yet.
What is the shared chamber for the digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems.
The cloaca.
What do hens have that roosters don't have?
Smaller comb (usually)
Smaller wattles
Wider pelvic bones (for egg laying)
Rounded saddle feathers
Shorter, rounded tail feathers
No large spurs (typically)
Ovary and oviduct (egg production)
Generally smaller body size
What shape of comb does Brahma chickens have?
Small Pea Comb.
The upward-pointing feathers on top of the head.
The crest.