Poultry Review

What is the term used for chickens produced for meat?

• Layer

• Broiler

• Poult

• Capon

What are chickens we use to produce eggs called?

• Eggers

• Layers

• Easter eggers

• Broody

What part of the egg holds the yolk in place?

• germinal disk

• albumen

• membrane

• chalaza

What holds the yolk together and later will be absorbed

• Albumen

• whites

• vitelline membrane

• membrane

What breed is mainly used for egg production?

• Cornish

• Barred Rock

• Leghorn

• Sussex

An opening in a chicken where waste and eggs are expelled

• cloaca

• vent

• anus

• duct

common behavior of chickens to roll or flap dirt on themselves to clean and discourage parasites

• bathe

• dirt bath

• dusting

fine layer of feathers that covers young birds and is found under tough exterior feathers

• down

• primary feathers

• second

• fluff

what is a loss of feathers due to change in season called

• shedding

• balding

• molting

• preening

what is a group of eggs called

• clutch

• cluster

• gaggle

• grouping