Chapter 1 Flashcards
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- a collective term for all domestic birds rendering economic service to man. Domestic animals are those that can live and multiply freely under the care of man
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Poultry
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- generally is a term applied to all poultry species specifically, applied to designate mature domestic cocks and hens. Poultry can refer also to the dressed carcass of fowls.
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Fowl
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- kinds of birds that are included in the term poultry (chicken, ducks, quails, turkeys, pigeon geese, etc.)
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Poultry species
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- the projecting mouth part of the chicken and turkey, consisting of upper and lower mandibles; organ of prehension
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Beak
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- the projecting mouth of waterfowls, consisting of upper and lower mandibles
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Bill
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- general term that designate the poultry raiser who produce fowls for any special purpose with the object of improving their value or in conformity with an agreed standard of excellence. The same term can be used to mean the animals used for breeding
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Breeder
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- a race of domestic fowls which maintains distinctive characteristics, shape, growth, temperament, and shell color of eggs produced. Breed is a broader term than variety. Breed includes varieties, example: Barred, White and buff varieties of Plymouth Rock breed.
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Breed
8
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A place where young chicks/ducklings are cared after hatching until they have grow to a point where they no longer need additional heat.
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Brooder
9
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- caponized cockerels: usually grown up to 4 months and weigh up to 3 kg with more improved quality of meat
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Capon
10
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- the most popular poultry species; different from turkeys, ducks, quails, geese, etc.
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Chicken
11
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- young domestic chicken
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Chick
12
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- group of eggs layed for successive days.
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Clutches
13
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- a male fowl one year old or over
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Cock/Rooster
14
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- a male fowl less than one year old
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Cockerel
15
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- made of vascularized tissues growing on top of fowl’s head. This serves as an ornamental function, signs of status and condition of the male and for heat dissipation.
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Comb
16
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- the receptacle in which a fowl’s food is accumulated before it passes to the gizzard
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Crop
17
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- old hens that had passed their usefulness for commercial egg productio
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Culls
18
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- cutting part of the upper and lower mandibles with the use of electrically controlled cauterizing blade having a temperature of 81.5°C to destroy the tissue responsible to generate beak growth.
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Debeaking
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- the first covering of a chick whose major function is for insulation
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Down
20
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- male of the duck family
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Drake
21
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- cutting of the comb, wattles, or earlobes, so as to leave the head smooth
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Dubbing
22
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- the young of the duck family in the downy stage of plumage
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Duckling
23
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- the process where the fully developed embryo (chick) breaks out of the eggs
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Hatching
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- a place where the facilities and process of incubation and hatching is done
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Hatchery
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- the number or volume of chicken sold/marketed based on the number of day old chicks raised
Harvest recovery
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- male goose
Gander
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- matured female goose
Goose hen
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Period where embryonic development takes place outside the body of the hens
Incubation
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- egg type or dual-type 6 months old female that lays eggs
Layer
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- number of chicken afflicted by disease
Morbidity rate
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- number of chicken that died based on the total number of chickens raised
Mortality rate
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- act of laying egg
Oviposition
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- mature ova released from the ovary which is affected by hormonal secretion (LH)
Ovulation
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- the feathers of a fowl
Plumage
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- the young of a domestic turkey; the term is properly applied until sex can be distinguished, when they are called cockerels and pullets
Poult
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- female fowl 5-6 months of age intended for egg production
Pullet
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- a female duck less than 6 months old
Pullet duck
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- the longest feathers of a wing, growing between the pinions and secondaries, hidden when wing is, folded, otherwise known as flight feathers
Primaries
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- the hollow, horny, basal part of stem of a feather
Quill
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- long, large quill feathers that grow between the first and second joints of the wing, nearest to the body, that are visible when the wing is folded.
Secondaries
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- the portion of a fowl's leg below the hock, exclusive of the foot and toes
Shank
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- a comb consisting of a single, fleshy, serrated formation extending from the beak backward over the crown of the head
Single comb
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- young pigeon
Squabs
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- a family of any variety of poultry that possess and reproduces with marked regularity, common individual characters which distinguish it from other families of the same variety
Strain
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- 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 colors of plumage, shape of combs, etc. from other groups of the same breed
Variety
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- the pendant growth at the sides and base of the beak
Wattle
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-the flat portion of a feather, made up of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
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