Chapter 1

Question 1

• a collective term for all domestic birds rendering economic service to man. Domestic animals are those that can live and multiply freely under the care of man

Answer 1

Poultry

Question 2

• generally is a term applied to all poultry species specifically, applied to designate mature domestic cocks and hens. Poultry can refer also to the dressed carcass of fowls.

Answer 2

Fowl

Question 3

• kinds of birds that are included in the term poultry (chicken, ducks, quails, turkeys, pigeon geese, etc.)

Answer 3

Poultry species

Question 4

• the projecting mouth part of the chicken and turkey, consisting of upper and lower mandibles; organ of prehension

Answer 4

Beak

Question 5

• the projecting mouth of waterfowls, consisting of upper and lower mandibles

Answer 5

Bill

Question 6

• general term that designate the poultry raiser who produce fowls for any special purpose with the object of improving their value or in conformity with an agreed standard of excellence. The same term can be used to mean the animals used for breeding

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Breeder

Question 7

• a race of domestic fowls which maintains distinctive characteristics, shape, growth, temperament, and shell color of eggs produced. Breed is a broader term than variety. Breed includes varieties, example: Barred, White and buff varieties of Plymouth Rock breed.

Answer 7

Breed

Question 8

A place where young chicks/ducklings are cared after hatching until they have grow to a point where they no longer need additional heat.

Answer 8

Brooder

Question 9

• caponized cockerels: usually grown up to 4 months and weigh up to 3 kg with more improved quality of meat

Answer 9

Capon

Question 10

• the most popular poultry species; different from turkeys, ducks, quails, geese, etc.

Answer 10

Chicken

Question 11

• young domestic chicken

Answer 11

Chick

Question 12

• group of eggs layed for successive days.

Answer 12

Clutches

Question 13

• a male fowl one year old or over

Answer 13

Cock/Rooster

Question 14

• a male fowl less than one year old

Answer 14

Cockerel

Question 15

• made of vascularized tissues growing on top of fowl’s head. This serves as an ornamental function, signs of status and condition of the male and for heat dissipation.

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Comb

Question 16

• the receptacle in which a fowl’s food is accumulated before it passes to the gizzard

Answer 16

Crop

Question 17

• old hens that had passed their usefulness for commercial egg productio

Answer 17

Culls

Question 18

• cutting part of the upper and lower mandibles with the use of electrically controlled cauterizing blade having a temperature of 81.5°C to destroy the tissue responsible to generate beak growth.

Answer 18

Debeaking

Question 19

• the first covering of a chick whose major function is for insulation

Answer 19

Down

Question 20

• male of the duck family

Answer 20

Drake

Question 21

• cutting of the comb, wattles, or earlobes, so as to leave the head smooth

Answer 21

Dubbing

Question 22

• the young of the duck family in the downy stage of plumage

Answer 22

Duckling

Question 23

• the process where the fully developed embryo (chick) breaks out of the eggs

Answer 23

Hatching

Question 24

• a place where the facilities and process of incubation and hatching is done

Answer 24

Hatchery

Question 25

• the number or volume of chicken sold/marketed based on the number of day old chicks raised

Answer 25

Harvest recovery

Question 26

• male goose

Answer 26

Gander

Question 27

• matured female goose

Answer 27

Goose hen

Question 28

Period where embryonic development takes place outside the body of the hens

Answer 28

Incubation

Question 29

• egg type or dual-type 6 months old female that lays eggs

Answer 29

Layer

Question 30

• number of chicken afflicted by disease

Answer 30

Morbidity rate

Question 31

• number of chicken that died based on the total number of chickens raised

Answer 31

Mortality rate

Question 32

• act of laying egg

Answer 32

Oviposition

Question 33

• mature ova released from the ovary which is affected by hormonal secretion (LH)

Answer 33

Ovulation

Question 34

• the feathers of a fowl

Answer 34

Plumage

Question 35

• the young of a domestic turkey; the term is properly applied until sex can be distinguished, when they are called cockerels and pullets

Answer 35

Poult

Question 36

• female fowl 5-6 months of age intended for egg production

Answer 36

Pullet

Question 37

• a female duck less than 6 months old

Answer 37

Pullet duck

Question 38

• the longest feathers of a wing, growing between the pinions and secondaries, hidden when wing is, folded, otherwise known as flight feathers

Answer 38

Primaries

Question 39

• the hollow, horny, basal part of stem of a feather

Answer 39

Quill

Question 40

• long, large quill feathers that grow between the first and second joints of the wing, nearest to the body, that are visible when the wing is folded.

Answer 40

Secondaries

Question 41

• the portion of a fowl’s leg below the hock, exclusive of the foot and toes

Answer 41

Shank

Question 42

• a comb consisting of a single, fleshy, serrated formation extending from the beak backward over the crown of the head

Answer 42

Single comb

Question 43

• young pigeon

Answer 43

Squabs

Question 44

• a family of any variety of poultry that possess and reproduces with marked regularity, common individual characters which distinguish it from other families of the same variety

Answer 44

Strain

Question 45

• a subdivision of a breed, a term used to distinguish fowls having the standard shape and other characteristics of the breed to which they belong, but differing in colors of plumage, shape of combs, etc. from other groups of the same breed

Answer 45

Variety

Question 46

• the pendant growth at the sides and base of the beak

Answer 46

Wattle

Question 47

-the flat portion of a feather, made up of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft

Answer 47

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