Poultry Production
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| Female Chicken | Hen
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| Male Chicken | Rooster
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| Young female chicken | Pullet
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| Young Male Chicken | Cockerel
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| Castrated male chicken | Capon
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| Type of chicken used for Egg production | Layer
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| Type of chicken used for Meat production | Broiler
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| Type of chicken that can be used for both Egg & Meat production | Dual Purpose
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| Process of checking an egg for defects or embryo developement using a light source | Candling
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| Average chicken body temeperature | 103 Degrees
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| Average lifespan of a Chicken | 6 years
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| Embryo developement begins when the egg temperature reaches | 86 degrees
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| Fear of chickens | Alektorophobia
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| Chicken's "True Stomach" | Proventriculus
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| Storage chamber for food | Crop
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| Thick muscled organ that grinds seeds down to finer particles with the use of grit | Gizzard
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| The Gizzard uses this to help grind food down to smaller particles | Grit
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| This part of the digetive tract digests vegetable matter | Cecum
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| A circular ring inside an egg that identifies a dead egg | Blood Ring
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| Average incubation period of a Chicken egg | 21 days
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| Average incubation temperature for a chicken egg | 100 degrees
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| The act of hatching | Pipping
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| An infant chicken | Chick
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| Popular Egg Laying Breed | Leghorn
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| Popular Broiler Breed | Cornish
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| Breed known for "Easter Eggs" | Araucana
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| Largest Purebeed Chicken in the World | Jersey Black Giant
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| Commercially raised breed of Turkey | Large White
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| American Breed of Turkey | Bronze
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| Laying breed of Duck | Indian Runner
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| Meat breed of Duck | White Pekin
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| Female Turkey | Hen
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| Male Turkey | Tom
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| Young Turkey | Poult
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| Female Goose | Goose
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| Male Goose | Gander
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| Young Goose | Gosling
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| Female Duck | Hen
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| Male Duck | Drake
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| Young Duck | Duckling
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| South American Breed of Duck | Muscovy
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| French Breed of Goose | Toulose
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| Eggs produced every year in the U.S. | 91 Billion
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| Turkeys produced in California | 16 Million
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| Length of time it takes a chicken to make one egg | 26 hours
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| Average age a chicken will begin to lay eggs | 5 months
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| A common use for chicken Manure | Fertilizer
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| Hard calcium armor that protects the embryo | Shell
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| Types of shell membranes | Inner & Outer
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| The proper name for the Egg White | Albumen
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| Main food source for the developing embryo | Yolk
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| String like structures that anchor the yolk in th center of the egg "Safety Belts" | Chalaza
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| True point of Embryo Growth | Blastoderm
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| Air space between the two membranes atht is the first oxygen source for the chick | Air Cell
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| Release of Mature yolk from the Ovary | Ovulation
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| Catches the yolk from the ovary | Infundibulum
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| Adds the first 50% of the Albumen to the yolk | Magnum
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| Adds the rest of the Albumen and the Shell | Uterus
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| Passes the egg from the Uterus to the cloaca | Vagina
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| Average length of incubation for a duck or turkey egg | 28 Days
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| The best time to candle eggs afetr incubation has began | 10 Days
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| the act of maintaining an environment that will allow a chick to develop within an egg and hatch | Incubation
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| The act of a hen incubating a clutch of eggs | Brooding
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| A group of eggs to be incubated | Clutch
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| Capable of growing and developing into another generation | Fertile
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| Not capable of producing offspring | Infertile
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| Secondary food source as well as proteins for growth | Albumen
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| The structure within the egg that aids in waste removal and gas exchange | Allantois
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| The Female Germ Cell | Egg
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| The male germ cell | Sperm
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| In avian species, this gender produces germ cells that dictate the sex of the new embryo | Female
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| The naturally occurring protective coating on the shell of an egg | Bloom
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| Of or belonging to a recognized strain established by breeding individuals of unmixed lineage over many generations | Purebred
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| The result of crossbreeding two unrelated strains or breeds with one another | Hybrid
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| The process of breeding two unrelated purebred breeds of animals with one another | Crossbreeding
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| Scientific Name for chickens | Gallus gallus domesticus
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| Chickens eat both vegetation and insects | Omnivorous
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| The oldest chicken lived to a ripe old age | 16 years
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| hanging flaps of skin either side under their beaks | Wattles
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| Fleshy sail like growth that grows on the top of the head | Comb
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| Dagger-like nails that grows from the legs of roosters and some females of certain breeds and species | Spurs
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| Group of chickens | Flock
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| Behaviors that prefer being social | Gregarious
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| Social hierarchy | Pecking Order
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| Rooster's territorial call | Crowing
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| The modern ancestor of domestic chickens | Red Jungle Fowl
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