We has given the chicken to examine the appearance that shown the chicken should be culling. The hens was about one year to be raising so there are some of physical sign that we can see. From our view the chicken are less feather due to the slow molt. Molt is another factor used to evaluate the persistency of lay of hens. A hen usually starts molting at any time of the year she stops laying. Hens cease laying completely or almost completely during the molt. The good layer producers lay late in the fall, and therefore molt late. Late molter also molt rapidly as a rule while early molter molt slowly. When a hen is in molt, she typically goes out of production, but some hens will continue to lay while molting. Usually, they will do so at a reduced
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When a hen is laying or about to lay her comb is waxy, too full of blood, and red in color. When not laying, the comb is smaller and shrunken, paler or duller red in color, comparatively hard, and covered with whitish scales. The head look large and thick and the eye look dull, sleepy and sunken, encircled with yellow pigment. This is because the hens have stops laying eggs so yellow pigment are present in eye ring of the hen. The yellow pigment are present in egg yolk so if the chicken stops laying the pigment will present in all part of a head such as beak and eye ring. The intensity of yellow pigment decreases in the shanks and tops of toes of hens as the number of eggs produced increases . As we can see the shank look less yellow pigment, dry and rough. In addition, measure the abdominal capacity. The larger the abdominal capacity is , the better the level of egg production. The width of the abdomen are length between the two pubic bones. The depth of the length between the bot¬tom of the pubic bones and the tip of the keel. This measurement are using finger. the measurement of our hen is 3 finger width by 2 finger depth. The distance is short and this show that the hens is not laying because the laying has the wider distance of measurement. The skin also feel thicker and less flexible, due to the fat which has accumulated
When a hen is laying or about to lay her comb is waxy, too full of blood, and red in color. When not laying, the comb is smaller and shrunken, paler or duller red in color, comparatively hard, and covered with whitish scales. The head look large and thick and the eye look dull, sleepy and sunken, encircled with yellow pigment. This is because the hens have stops laying eggs so yellow pigment are present in eye ring of the hen. The yellow pigment are present in egg yolk so if the chicken stops laying the pigment will present in all part of a head such as beak and eye ring. The intensity of yellow pigment decreases in the shanks and tops of toes of hens as the number of eggs produced increases . As we can see the shank look less yellow pigment, dry and rough. In addition, measure the abdominal capacity. The larger the abdominal capacity is , the better the level of egg production. The width of the abdomen are length between the two pubic bones. The depth of the length between the bot¬tom of the pubic bones and the tip of the keel. This measurement are using finger. the measurement of our hen is 3 finger width by 2 finger depth. The distance is short and this show that the hens is not laying because the laying has the wider distance of measurement. The skin also feel thicker and less flexible, due to the fat which has accumulated