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