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32 Cards in this Set
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What are all meat chickens mainly conformed of?
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Mainly a cross between male Cornish and Female Plymouth Rocks
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What are meat chickens classified as?
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Cornish game hens, Broilers/Fryers, and Roasters.
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Primarily egg layers
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Leghorns
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How are chickens mated?
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Generally done naturally
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What is a Pullet?
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Female chicken under a year of age
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What is a hen?
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Female chicken over a year of age
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What is a cockeral?
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Male chicken under a year of age
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What is a cock?
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Male chicken over a year of age
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What is a chick?
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Young chicken
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What is a poult?
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Young turkey
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What is a Capon?
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Male chicken whose testes have been removed
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What is a Cornish game hen?
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Young immature chicken less than 5 weeks of age
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What is a broiler/fryer?
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young chicken less than 10 weeks of age
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What is a roaster?
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Young chicken 8-12 weeks of age
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What are poultry feeds mostly made of?
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Mainly combinations of concentrates and hi-protein supplements
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What makes chickens yellow/orange?
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Carotenoid Pigments in feed
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What is the process of laying eggs called?
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Oviparition
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What is candling used for?
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To judge interior egg quality
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What are the possible egg grades?
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AA, A , and B
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What can you see when you candle an egg?
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Air cell, the yolk, and the white
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Where is the air cell?
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Nearly always in the large end of the egg
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When does the air cell change?
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As the egg gets older the air cell gets larger
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When is the yolk considered good?
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When it moves slightly away from the center of the egg
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when is the yolk bad?
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When the yolk moves more freely and approaches the shell
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When is the white considered good?
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If the yolk is in place in the center then the white is usually firm and thick
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What are stained eggs?
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eggs with scattered stains are labeled as B eggs
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What are the requirements for a grade AA egg?
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Small air cell, Clear and firm white, Outline of yolk in the center, no spots
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What egg characteristic is quantified by the Haugh Unit Determination?
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the height of the thick albumen
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What is the albumen?
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The white of the egg that serves to hold the yolk in the center of the egg
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What is the Chalaza (plural chalazae)
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Stringy white rope structure attached to the end of the yolk that holds the yolk in place
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How can you rate the quality of the yolk?
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the darker the yolk the more nutritious the egg
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What can you see in a fresh egg about the chalazae?
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the more fresh an egg the more noticable the chalazae
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