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Definition Of Term Poultry Flashcards

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  1. is a collective term for all domestic birds that is of economic service to man.
    - It can also refer to the dressed carcass of the fowl.
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POULTRY

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are kinds of birds that are included in the term poultry

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poultry species

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total abdominal depth & width

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abdominal capacity

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the distance between the pubic & the keel bone.

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Abdominal depth

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the distance between the 2 pubic bones.

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Abdominal width

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fear of chickens,

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alektorophobia

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7
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Medication used as an aid to prevent and treat coccidiosis and can be found in some medicated chick feeds

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AMPROLIUM

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a dilute substance produced by microorganisms that have the power to kill other organism.

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Antibiotics

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a substance formed in the body as a result of infection or administration of suitable antigens.

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ANTIBODY

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A disease organism that has been weakened to reduce its virulence

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ANTTENUATED

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pertaining to birds.

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Avian

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microscopic organisms that are composed of a single cell.

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Bacteria

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13
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a miniature chicken about the size of a regular chicken.

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bantam

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14
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a chicken of mixed breed.

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barnyard chicken

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15
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The elongated feathers below the beak area that created a puffy look to some feathers

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Beard

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16
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is a word for a hen.

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Biddy

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17
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the use of the beak to scoop feed out of a through – onto the floor.

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Bill out

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18
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Disease prevention management

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biosecurity

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A small white bullseye on the egg yolk indicating a fertile egg.

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Blastoderm

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A small white disc on the egg yolk indicating an infertile egg.

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Blastodisc

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21
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. the fading of color of beak, shanks & vent

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bleaching

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22
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the moist, protective coating of a freshly laid egg that dries so fast.

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Bloom

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23
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A material used to cover the floor on confined spaces

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BEDDING/LITTER

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24
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To discourage a hen from setting.

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Break up

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25
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a group of chickens that are like each other and different from other chickens.
A race of domestic fowls, which maintains distinctive characteristic of shape, growth, temperament & shell color of egg produced

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BREED

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26
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mature chickens where fertile eggs are collected

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breeders

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27
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a characteristic of purebred chicks whereby they resemble both parents.

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Breed true

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28
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a young, tender meat chicken also called a FRYER
- a type of chicken raised for meat.

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Broiler

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29
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To care for a batch of chicks.

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Brood

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30
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A type of chicken raised for meat.

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Brooder

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31
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Material which is place around the brooder heat source to prevent the chicks from staying too far from the heat source.

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Brooder guard

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32
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Is caused due to hormonal influence. The broody fowls do not lay eggs and feed. Such fowls are to be separated and kept in bright light.
in fowls is treated by giving estrogen injection and nutrient food.

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Broodiness

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33
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A chicken that has decided to sit on and hatch a clutch of eggs

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Broody

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34
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the process of providing supplemental heat to broiler chicks from hatching up to the time they have grown sufficient feathers to control their own body temperature.

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Brooding

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35
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A bacterial infection and inflammatory reaction of the feet of birds.

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Bumble foot

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36
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chickens kept in cages.

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Cage feed

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37
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to examine the contents of an intact egg with light

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candle

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38
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a nasty behavior manifested by pecking on others’ tails, and feathers
- is referred to as one bird pecking the other bird.

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Cannibalism

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39
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the narrow feathers between the nape & back.

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cape

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40
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a chicken that shows no evidence of a disease, yet harbors the organism, and is capable of transmitting the disease to others.

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Carrier

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41
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an egg with a cracked shell, but the shell membrane is still intact.
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check

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42
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one of the common poultry species

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chicken

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43
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An enclosure where the chickens are kept safe and secure

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Chicken coop

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44
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newly hatched chicken- (DOC)

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chick

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45
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a scheme whereby a grower enters into a contract with an integrator to grow broilers up to a marketable age of about 36-42 days.

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Contact growing

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46
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An all-in-one urinating, defecating and mating mechanism located on the hind end of the chicken.

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Cloaca

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47
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the sound of hen to comfort her chick

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cluck

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48
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word for a mother hen.
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clucker

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49
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a batch of egg that are hatched together

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Clutch

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50
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infection with coccidial protozoa without showing any signs.

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Coccidiasis

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51
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a parasitic protozoal infestation.

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Coccidiosis

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52
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a male chicken.

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Cock

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53
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a male chicken under one year old.

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Cockerel

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54
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A featherless crest at the top of a chicken’s head

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Comb

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55
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the environmental temperature wherein the animal does not exert extra effort to maintain normal body temperature. – in CHICKEN it is 55 F.

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comfort zone

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56
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a chicken’s state of health and cleanliness.

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Condition

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57
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a chickens body structure.

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conformation

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58
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a house or cage in which the chickens’ lives.

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Coop

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59
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a pouch at the base of the chicken’s neck.

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Crop

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60
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The feathers protruding from the top of the chicken’s head

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Crest

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61
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an unsexed male readily distinguished by the undeveloped comb and wattles.

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Capon

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62
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Two white cords on each side of the yolk that keep it properly positioned within the egg white.

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Chalazae

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63
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cutting of the wattles

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cropping

64
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The removal of unprofitable birds from the flock
– is the process of separating or eliminating sick and nonproductive birds from the Poultry. The non-productive birds can be distinguished from the productive birds.

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Culling

65
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Is a process of cutting one third of upper beak at 15 days age for first time and at 16th week for second time. As a result of this the chicken may not involve in cannibalism and can easily procure the soft food without waste.

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Debeaking

66
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eggs with dirt or stains covering more than ¼ of the shell.

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Dirties

67
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An impairment of the normal function of any body organ or part of the bird

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disease

68
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a substance that kills pathogenic organisms but not necessarily spores and is usually applied to inanimate objects.

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Disinfectant

69
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The soft, fur like fluff covering a newly hatched chick.

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Down

70
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chicken manure.

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droppings

71
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. the trim of the comb

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dub

72
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cutting the comb

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dubbing

73
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The habit chickens have in trashing around in soft soil to clean their feathers and discourage body parasites.

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Dust

74
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bathing in dirt or other substances to help remove external parasites and groom plumage.

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dust bath

75
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breed of chicken that is raised for both eggs and meat

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dual purpose breed

76
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Bathing in dirt or other substances to help remove external parasites and groom plumage

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Dust bath

77
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a horny cap on a chick’s upper beak that helps the chick pip through the shell

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egg tooth

78
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a fertilized egg at any stage of development prior to hatching.

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Embryo

79
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the amount of fat beneath the skin of a meat bird.

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Finish

80
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group of chickens living together.

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Flocks

81
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domesticated bird raised for food.

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Fowl

82
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Viral disease in chickens and other species of poultry that
causes lesions on Skin (cutaneous form) and can affect respiratory tract and
upper GI (diphtheritic form)

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fowl pox

83
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feathers that curl rather than lying flat

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frizzle

84
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a tender young meat chicken, also called a BROILER

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fryer

85
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crushed rock that helps breakdown food in the gizzard

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grit

86
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a rooster cape feathers.

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Hackles

87
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the characteristic of a rooster having rounded rather than pointed sex feather.

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Hen feathered

88
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female that is a year or older

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hen

89
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Agglutination of red blood cells

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Hemagglutination

90
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the offspring of a heh & rooster of different breeds.

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Hybrid

91
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PERIOD the time it takes for a bird egg to hatch

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Incubation

92
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. the number of eggs a hen lays during a given time

.

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intensity of lay

93
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during the hatching process, when the chick breaches the membrane into the air cell of the gg.

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INTERNAL PIP

94
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when a bird has some degree of resistance to a particular disease

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immune

95
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A machine that maintains the perfect temperatures to hatch an egg

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Incubation

96
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the invasion of a pathogen into susceptible tissue resulting in disease.

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INFECTION

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A

IINFECTIOUS DISEASE

98
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keeping poultry in areas separate from other poultry

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isolation

99
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a young male or female bird

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JUVENILE

100
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the egg that leaks because the shell as cracked and the shell membrane is broken.

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LEAKER

101
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the energy of the food eaten less the energy of the excrement derived from it, both fecal and urinary

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METABOLIZABLE ENERGY

102
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the feathers sticking out from both sides of the face, otherwise
called as WHISKERS.

-

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MUFF

103
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loss of feathers due to change in season followed by regrowth

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MOLTING

104
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a sickness in a bird or flock caused by the disease.

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MORBIDITY

105
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death of birds in the flock.

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MORTALITY

106
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a wooden or plastic egg placed in a neat to encourage chickens to lay there.

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NEST EGG

107
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upgraded egg
–

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NEST RUN

108
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An extremely contagious disease affecting birds, including domestic poultry

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Newcastle Disease

109
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breed of chicken that is raised primarily for show or exhibition

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ORNAMENTAL BREED

110
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the laying of an egg.

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OVIPOSITION

111
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an organism that lives in or on another organism from which it derives its nourishment

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PARASITE

112
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describes the condition that occurs when a chick’s vent is covered in feces and becomes clogged.

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PASTY BUTT

113
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an organism capable of causing disease.

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PATHOGEN

114
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Loose dropping sticking to vent area.

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PASTING

115
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the social rank of chickens.

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PECK ORDER

116
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the ability of the hen to lay steadily over a long period of time.

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PERSISTENCY OF LAY

117
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pubic bones.

-

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PINBONES

118
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the tips of a newly emerging feathers.

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PINFEATHERS

119
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the hole a newly formed chick makes in its shell when it is ready to hatch.

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PIP

120
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  • the total set of feathers covering a chicken
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PLUMAGE
. -

121
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trimming of the earlobes

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PRINNING

122
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breed of chicken that is raised for egg production or meat production.

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PRODUCTION BREED

123
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a female chicken under one year old.

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PULLET

124
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the offspring of a heh & rooster of the same breed.

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PUREBRED

125
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  • the hollow, horny, basal part of stem of a feather.
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QUILL

126
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any abnormal sound coming from the airways.

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RALES

127
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description of chickens that are allowed to graze pasture.

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RANGE FED

128
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a check; dirty; leaker & otherwise inedible egg.

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RESTRICTED EGG

129
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a cockerel or pullet, usually weighing 4 6 pounds, suitable for cooking whole in an oven.

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ROASTER

130
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male chicken

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ROOSTER

131
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a chicken or group of chicken resting, likely in an elevated perch

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ROOSTING

132
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  • the part of the chickens back just behind the tail.

–

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SADDLE

133
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feathers in front of the tail

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SADDLE FEATHERS

134
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the small, hard, overlapping plates covering the chicken’s shanks and toes.

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SCALES

135
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newly hatched chicks that has been sorted out into pullets and cockerels

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SEXED

136
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a hackle; saddle or tail feather that is rounded in a hen but usually pointed in a rooster.

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SEX FEATHER

137
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the long, curved tail feathers of some roosters.

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SICKLES

138
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the sharp pointed protrusions on a rooster shanks.

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SPURS

139
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no longer laying well.

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SPENT

140
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a cockerel on a brink of sexual maturity, when his comb and spurs
begin to develop.

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STAG

141
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young female chickens that are nearly old enough to lay.

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STARTER PULLETS

142
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a feed formulation for growing chicks up to laying age or 16 weeks for hens.

-

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STARTER/GROWER FEEDS

143
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a family of any variety of poultry that possesses and reproduces with marked regularity common individual characters which distinguish this from other families of the same variety.

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STRAIN

144
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a hen’s instinctive habit of hiding her eggs.

-

A

STEAL

145
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newly hatched chicks that have not been sexed, otherwise called as UNSEXED or AS HATCHED

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STRAIGHT RUN

146
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anything which affects the bird’s well-being and lowers its resistance to disease.

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STRESS

147
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a value placed on the potency of a biological agent, when applied to the agglutination test it is the weakest dilution at which clumping of the antigen occurs.

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TITER

148
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a cock & 2 hens or a cockerel and 2 pullets of the same breed and variety.

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TRIO

149
Q

the type & shape of a chicken that tell you what breed it is.

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TYPE

150
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subdivision of a breed according to color; comb style; beard or leg feathering,
- Or 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 color of plumage; shape of comb etc. from other groups of the same breed.

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VARIETY

151
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an opening in chickens where waste and eggs are expelled.

A

VENT

152
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a preparation of microorganism (killed, living attenuated.or living totally virulent) which when placed in the body of the bird produces or increases immunity to a certain disease.

-

A

VACCINE

153
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an animal which carries and transmits parasites to poultry such as earthworm, which carries the chicken tapeworm eggs.

. -

A

VECTOR

154
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pasting a condition where the chicks suffer from early diarrhea.

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VENT

155
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an organism, ultramicroscopic in size that multiplies only in living cells. Some viruses are capable of causing disease.

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VIRUS

156
Q

flesh under the beak of the chicken that is used as a heat regulating mechanism

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WATTLE

157
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an opening in chickens where waste and eggs are expelled

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WRY NECK

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