Deck 24: Poultry Breed Identification and Production Management

Question 1

Molting decreases the body of calcium.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A blood spot is a sign of a damaged egg.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

What is the part of the egg where the sperm enters the egg cell to allow fertilization to occur?

A) chalaza
B) yolk
C) albumin
D) germinal disc

Answer 3

germinal disc

Question 4

Range paralysis is caused by a herpes virus.

Question 5

What type of poultry production system is raised specifically to produce fertile eggs?

A) broiler production
B) egg production
C) pullet production
D) broiler egg production

Question 21

What is a capon?

A) a castrated male chicken over 6 pounds and 6 months of age
B) a chick between 6-8 weeks old used for meat
C) a chick over 8 weeks of age and over 4 pounds
D) a female hen used for laying eggs

Question 22

How many eggs can one hen produce a year?

A) 200
B) 300
C) 400
D) 500

Question 23

Match the following terms with the correct definition.
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A) ratite
B) rooster
C) chick
D) pullet
E) cockerel
F) layer
G) spent hen
H) flock
I) capon
J) broiler
K) comb
L) wattle
M) candling
N) down
O) fertile
P) incubator
Q) air cell
R) chalaza
S) bird flu
T) molting
U) coccidiosis
V) albumin
W) in vivo
X) serration

Question 25

Match the following terms with the correct definition.
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A) ratite
B) rooster
C) chick
D) pullet
E) cockerel
F) layer
G) spent hen
H) flock
I) capon
J) broiler
K) comb
L) wattle
M) candling
N) down
O) fertile
P) incubator
Q) air cell
R) chalaza
S) bird flu
T) molting
U) coccidiosis
V) albumin
W) in vivo
X) serration

Question 27

Which of the following is a sign of a healthy egg?

A) a small air cell
B) a yellow yolk
C) albumin clings to yolk
D) all of the above

Question 28

What is the incubation time of chickens?

A) 11 days
B) 21 days
C) 18 days
D) 15 days

Question 31

What disease causes respiratory distress that may make a bird twist its neck?

A) Marek's disease
B) infectious bronchitis
C) Newcastle disease
D) Avian influenza

Question 37

Match the following terms with the correct definition.
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A) long tail feathers of the male peafowl
B) hair located under the chin of turkeys
C) eggs that have no embryo due to a male not being present
D) a male chicken under a year old
E) young chicken raised to lay eggs
F) virus spread by mosquitoes that produces warts
G) spaces between the comb
H) to burn to ashes
I) anchors yolk to egg
J) white part of the egg
K) a male chicken over a year old
L) flesh like area located under the chin
M) eggs that have developed an embryo due to a male being present

Question 39

Match the following terms with the correct definition.
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A) long tail feathers of the male peafowl
B) hair located under the chin of turkeys
C) eggs that have no embryo due to a male not being present
D) a male chicken under a year old
E) young chicken raised to lay eggs
F) virus spread by mosquitoes that produces warts
G) spaces between the comb
H) to burn to ashes
I) anchors yolk to egg
J) white part of the egg
K) a male chicken over a year old
L) flesh like area located under the chin
M) eggs that have developed an embryo due to a male being present

Question 41

Match the following terms with the correct definition.
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A) long tail feathers of the male peafowl
B) hair located under the chin of turkeys
C) eggs that have no embryo due to a male not being present
D) a male chicken under a year old
E) young chicken raised to lay eggs
F) virus spread by mosquitoes that produces warts
G) spaces between the comb
H) to burn to ashes
I) anchors yolk to egg
J) white part of the egg
K) a male chicken over a year old
L) flesh like area located under the chin
M) eggs that have developed an embryo due to a male being present

Question 43

The _________________ is the outer covering of an egg made of _____________.

Question 44

List 4 poultry production systems.

Question 45

Most incubation temperatures range from _____ to _____ degrees.

Question 46

Over ___ billion chicken are raised each year in the U.S.

Question 47

________________ are poultry with small, round bodies and make a "bobwhite" whistle sound.

Question 48

List 2 ways eggs are used in research.

Question 49

The tail feathers of peafowl are called a ________________.

Question 50

List 3 signs of coccidiosis in poultry.

Question 51

What is the term for removing the tip of a chick's mouth part? __________________________

Question 52

List 4 examples of poultry species.

Question 53

The process of vaccinating eggs on day number 18 of incubation is called ______________________________.

Question 54

______________________ is caused by a virus that affects the respiratory system of poultry and Birds may attempt to twist their necks around as a result.

Question 55

The process of _______________ young chicks is done to prevent them from pecking each other.

Question 56

What disease causes a purple coloration to the head of poultry? ______________________________

Question 57

What is a common protozoan parasite of poultry and wild birds? ______________________________

Question 58

List 4 classes of chickens.

Question 59

Chickens have an average incubation length of _____ days.

Question 60

Poultry are also called ______________.

Question 61

List 2 methods of dead bird disposal.