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Breeds of Poultry Flashcards

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  • egg type
    skin: yellow
    comb: single
    eyes: reddish bay
    earlobes: white
    shanks: yellow
    plumage: white
    egg shell color: white
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LEGHORN

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Origin of Leghorn

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ITALY

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  • egg type
    skin: white
    comb: single
    eyes: reddish bay
    earlobes: white
    shanks: dark slaty blue
    plumage: slaty blue (dominant); black (recessive)
    egg shell color: white
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ANDALUSIAN

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Origin of Andalusian

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AUSTRALIA

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  • egg type
    skin: white
    comb: single
    eyes: brown
    earlobes: white
    shanks: dark slate
    plumage: black
    egg shell color: white
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MINORCA

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Origin of MINORCA

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SPAIN

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  • egg type
    skin: yellow
    comb: single
    eyes: reddish bay
    earlobes: red
    shanks: yellow
    plumage: red
    egg shell color: brown
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RHODE ISLAND RED

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Origin of Rhode Island Red

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USA

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Other egg type breeds

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  • ANCONAS
  • MIKAWA
  • WYANDOTTE
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  • used in production of crossbreeds
  • meat type
    skin: skin
    comb: single
    eyes: brown
    earlobes: red
    shanks: dark slate; bottom feet is white
    plumage: black
    egg shell color: tinted
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AUSTRALORP

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Origin of Australorp

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ENGLAND

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  • meat type
  • used in crossbreeding for meat production
    skin: yellow
    comb: pea
    eyes: reddish bay
    earlobes: red
    shanks: yellow; feathered
    plumage: columbian (white & black)
    egg shell color: brown
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BRAHMA (LIGHT)

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Origin of Brahma

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ASIA

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  • meat type
  • used in development of male lines for crossbreeding
    skin: yellow
    comb: pea
    eyes: pearl
    earlobes: red
    shanks: yellow
    plumage: white
    egg shell color: brown
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CORNISH (WHITE)

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Origin of Cornish

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ENGLAND

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Other Meat/Broiler type breeds

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  • COCHIN
  • JERSEY GIANT
  • LANGHANS
  • ORPINGTON
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  • dual type
  • dual purpose; used in crosses for sexing chicks at hatching
    skin: yellow
    comb: single
    eyes: reddish bay
    earlobes: red
    shanks: yellow
    plumage: barred (sex-linked trait)
    egg shell color: brown
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PLYMOUTH ROCK (BARRED)

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Origin of Plymouth Rock (Barred)

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USA

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  • dual type
  • primarily used as broiler/meat type
    skin: yellow
    comb: single
    eyes: reddish bay
    earlobes: red
    shanks: yellow
    plumage: white
    egg shell color: brown
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PLYMOUTH ROCK (WHITE)

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Origin of Plymouth Rock (White)

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USA

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  • dual type
  • primarily use as broilers
    skin: yellow
    comb: single
    eyes: reddish bay
    earlobes: red
    shanks: yellow
    plumage: red
    egg shell color: brown
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NEW HAMPSHIRE

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Origin of New Hampshire

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USA

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Other Dual Type breeds

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  • BLACK ORPINGTON
  • CANTONESE
  • KABIR
  • LANCASTER
  • SUSSEX
  • TAIWAN
24
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Are small chickens usually weighing 16-30 ounces made up of 150 varieties

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BANTAMS

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  • ranked 2nd to chickens in term of population raised
  • considered as the most versatile because it can subsist under a wide range of climatic and nutritional conditions
  • relatively hardy, resistant to common avian diseases and can eat on any types of feed
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DUCKS

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Popularly known as the Pateros Duck

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PHILIPPINE MALLARD DUCK

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  • developed from the stocks brought by merchants from China
  • due to the natural and artificial selection and breeding, they adapted to the local condition
  • half of the total population of ducks in the country is from this breed
  • raised traditionally under a herding system or semi-confinement and fed with snails as protein source and palay for energy
  • egg type
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PHILIPPINE MALLARD DUCK

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  • excellent egg producers, with some strains averaging to 365 eggs per year
  • drakes are khaki with brownish-bronze lower back and covert tail
  • drakes have green bill
  • drakes have legs and toes that are dark orange
  • females are khaki with seal brown head and neck
  • female bills are greenish black; legs and toes are brown
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KHAKI CAMPBELL

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Origin of Khaki Campbell

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ENGLAND

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3 varieties of Indian Runner

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  • WHITE
  • PENCILED
  • FAWN-and-WHITE
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  • all 3 varieties have orange to reddish-orange feet and shanks
  • stands erect
  • not as prolific as the Khaki Campbell in terms of egg production
  • egg type
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INDIAN RUNNER

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Origin of Indian Runner

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EAST INDIES (INDIA, BANGLADESH)

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  • white feathers
  • orange-yellow shanks and feet
  • yellow skin
  • egg shell: white
  • nervous personalities
  • meat type
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WHITE PEKIN

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Origin of White Pekin

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CHINA

35
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Females are not good mothers because they do not sit on their eggs and raise their young

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WHITE PEKIN

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Most popular meat type duck in the United States

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AYLESBURRY

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  • flesh colored bills
  • light orange legs and feet
  • eggs: white
  • poor brooders of their eggs and young
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AYLESBURRY

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Origin of Aylesburry

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ENGLAND

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  • white feathers and skin

- good sitters and brooders

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MUSCOVY

40
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Origin of Muscovy

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AMERICA

41
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A cross of female Muscovy and a Mallard duck that produce a sterile hybrid

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MULE DUCKS

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GEESE

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  1. TOULOUSE
  2. EMBDEN
  3. WHITE CHINESE
  4. PILGRIM
  5. AFRICAN
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They are popular in US because they are used in weeding crops

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WHITE CHINESE

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TURKEYS

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  1. BROAD BREASTED LARGE WHITE
  2. BROAD BREASTED BRONZE
  3. BELTSVILLE SMALL WHITE
  4. NARRAGANSELT
  5. BOURBON RED
45
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QUAIL

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  1. JAPANESE SEATTLE
  2. SILVER
  3. NEGRO
  4. JAPANESE TAIWAN/CHINESE
  5. TUXEDO

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