Poultry

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Poultry

• Miss Kay

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What An Ideal Chicken!

• Techno Chicken

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Objectives

• Define poultry terms.
• Differentiate between a productive hen and a non-
  laying hen
• Identify parts of a chicken.
• Evaluate eggs.

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Basic Terms

• Scientific Name Galine
• Chick Newborn chicken
• Pullet Young, immature female chicken less than
  5-6 months of age
• Hen Mature female chicken
• Rooster Mature male chicken
• Roaster male or female chicken 3-5 months of age
  and raised for the production of meat

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More Terms

• Capon Castrated male chicken
• Layer Hen used for laying eggs
• Broiler/Flyer Chickens grown for meat production
• Group Name Flock
• Candling examining a shell eggs content by
  holding it between ones eye and a light source
• Clutch Nest of eggs

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More Terms

• Egg hard- shelled reproductive body produced by
  a bird
• Green description of chicks that have recently
  hatched
• Axial feather short wing feather that separates
  primaries from secondaries
• Molt To shed feathers periodically
• Oviposition laying of an egg by a bird
• Plumage Feathers of a bird

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Egg- Type Hens

• Characteristics to look for when examining hens
• Bleaching of yellow pigment in the shanks, feet,
  and beak
• Condition and capacity of the abdomen
• Condition of plumage and rate of molt of the wing
  primaries
• Vigor and vitality
• Head characteristics

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Bleaching of Body Pigment

• Order that the body pigment fades
• Vent
• Eye Ring
• Earlobe
• Base of Beak
• Tip of Beak
• Bottom of Foot
• Shank
• Hock and Tip of Toe

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Bleaching of Body Pigment

• Hens that show signs of returning pigment are
  decreasing in egg production
• Pigment returns to the body parts in the same
  order it faded
• Returns 3 times quicker
• Four factors
• Amount of pigment in feed
• Health and vitality of hen
• Whether the hen is confined or not
• Size and coarseness of the hen

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Condition and Capacity of Abdomen

• Good indicator of egg production
• Abdomen of a layer is wide, soft (lacks fat), and
  expanded
• Pelvic bones are thin and flexible
• Vent is moist, large, and oblong in shape

• Non-layer
• Narrow, hard (fatty), and contracted
• Pelvic bones are thick and rigid
• Vent has some moistness but is small and round in
  shape

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Abdominal Capacity

• Abdominal capacity of a hen is measured and
  expressed by ones fingers width.
• Normal- 3 fingers width by 4 fingers width

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Plumage and Rate of Molt

• Two factors considered in appraising the plumage
  of hens include condition (feather appearance)
  and molting rate (speed of shedding feathers)

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Vigor and Vitality

• A high producing hen appears vigorous, alert, and
  quick in movement
• Non-producing hen is sluggish

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Head and Head Parts

• If not trimmed- a productive hens beak is short
• The hens eyes are bright, alert and round.
• Her skull is flat from side to side
• Her comb and wattles are large, bright red, and
  glossy
• They feel velvety soft and warm when touched.

• Non-producing hens beak is long
• The hens eyes are dull, sleepy, and oblong.
• Her skull is rounded from side to side
• Her comb and wattles are shrunken and dull
• They feel rough and cool when touched

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Parts of A Chicken
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Who can come up here and label the parts of a
chicken?
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Wing
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Comb and Wattles
Comb
Wattles
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Hock, Shank, And Feet
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Vent
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Crop
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Parts of a Chicken
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Eggs
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Egg and Its Parts
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Egg Dissection?

• Would you want to look inside of the egg?
• How can we look at the contents inside?
• Why is it important to look at the contents
  inside?
• What is the process called that allows us to look
  inside the egg?

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Candling Eggs

• Candling Demo
• What do we look for when we candle eggs?
• Air Cell
• Yolk
• Cracks in shell
• Blood spots and other foreign matter

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Before We Candle Eggs

• Air Cell

• Yolk

• Temperature- 105 degrees
• Is normally at the large end of the egg
• Quality Grades
• AA- up to 1/8
• A- 1/8-3/16
• B- gt 3/16

• Yolk size and shape
• Distinctness of yolk shadow outline
• Yolk defects and germ development

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What Does Your Egg Look Like?
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Objectives

• Define poultry terms.
• Differentiate between a productive hen and a non-
  laying hen
• Identify parts of a chicken.
• Evaluate eggs.

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Now GAMETIME!!!

• We are playing
• AROUND THE WORLD!!!!

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What is the scientific name of poultry?
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What is this part of the chicken called?
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What Grade will the egg have if it has up to a
1/8 air cell?
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Do chickens gain pigment quicker than losing it
or do chickens lose pigment quicker than gaining
it?
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What is this part of the chicken called?
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What is this part of the chicken called?
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What is this process called?
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What part of the egg is this?
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What is the name of the pigment found in the
chicken?
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What is this part of the chicken called?
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What is this part of the chicken called?
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What is this part of the chicken called?
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What is a layer?
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What type of feathers are these?
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What do we look for when we candle eggs?
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What are the top 3 areas that molt?
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What part of the egg is this?
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What Grade will the egg have if it has greater
than 3/16 air cell?
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What is this part of the chicken called?
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Name 3 body parts that fade in pigment.
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What is the temperature of an egg when it is laid?
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Name 2 characteristics that we look for when
examining hens.
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What is this breed of chicken?
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Where is the air cell found in the egg?
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What is a pullet?
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How many times faster does pigment gained then
lost?
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What part of the egg is this?
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What is a broiler?
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What is candling?
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What is this part of the chicken called?
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What Grade will the egg have if it has 1/8-
3/16 air cell?
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What is this type of feather?
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How is the abdominal cavity on a hen measured?
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What type of feathers are these?
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What is the normal measurement of the abdominal
capacity?
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What part of the egg is this?
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What is plumage?
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What is Oviposition?
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What is this part of the chicken called?
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What does green mean?
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Name one characteristic about the head of a hen
that shows that it is a productive hen.
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Name one of the things we look for when
evaluating yolk.
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What is this called?