Glossary of Terms Flashcards
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flesh under the beak of the chicken that is used as a heat regulating mechanism
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Wattle
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an organism, ultramicroscopic in size that multiplies only in living cells; capable of causing diseases
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Virus
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an animal which carries and transmits parasites to poultry such as earthworm, which carries the chicken tapeworm eggs
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Vector
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a preparation of microorganism (killed, living attenuated or living totally virulent) which when placed in the body of the bird produces or increases immunity to a certain disease.
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Vaccine
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subdivision of a breed according to color; comb style; beard or leg feathering
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Variety
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the type & shape of a chicken that tell you what breed it is
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type
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a cock & 2 hens or a cockerel and 2 pullets of the same breed and
variety
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trio
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- a value placed on the potency of a biological agent, when applied
to the agglutination test it is the weakest dilution at which clumping of the
antigen occurs
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titer
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anything which affects the bird’s well-being and lowers its resistance to disease
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stress
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newly hatched chicks that have not been sexed,
otherwise called as UNSEXED or AS HATCHED
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straight run
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- a hen’s instinctive habit of hiding her eggs
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steal
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failure of chicks to eat
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starve out
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a family of any variety of poultry that possesses and reproduces
with marked regularity common individual characters which distinguish this
from other families of the same variety
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strain
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a feed formulation for growing chicks up
to laying age or 16 weeks for hens
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starter or grower feeds
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young female chickens that are nearly old enough
to lay
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starter pullets
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a cockerel on a brink of sexual maturity, when his comb and spurs
begin to develop
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stag
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no longer laying well
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spent
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the sharp pointed protrusions on a rooster shanks
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spurs
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the long, curved tail feathers of some roosters
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sickles
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a hackle; saddle or tail feather that is rounded in a hen but usually pointed in a rooster
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sex feather
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newly hatched chicks that has been sorted out into pullets and cockerels
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sexed
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the small, hard, overlapping plates covering the chicken’s shanks
and toes.
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scales
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feathers in front of the tail
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saddle feathers
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the part of the chickens back just behind the tail
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saddle
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a chicken or group of chicken resting, likely in an elevated perch
roosting
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a male chicken
rooster
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a cockerel or pullet, usually weighing 4-6 pounds, suitable for cooking whole in an oven.
roaster
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a check; dirty; leaker & otherwise inedible egg
restricted egg
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description of chickens that are allowed to graze pasture
range fed
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any abnormal sound coming from the airways.
rales
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the hollow, horny, basal part of stem of a feather
quill
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the offspring of a hen & rooster of the same breed.
purebred
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a female chicken under one year old
pullet
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breed of chicken that is raised for egg
production or meat production
production breed
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trimming of the earlobes
prinning
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the total set of feathers covering a chicken
plumage
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the hole a newly formed chick makes in its shell when it is ready to hatch
PIP
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the tips of a newly emerging feathers
Pinfeathers
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pubic bones.
pinbones
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the ability of the hen to lay steadily over a long
period of time
persistency of laying
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the social rank of chickens
peck order
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loose dropping sticking to vent area
pasting
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an organism capable of causing disease
pathogen
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describes the condition that occurs when a chick’s vent is covered in feces and becomes clogged
pasty butt
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an organism that lives in or on another organism from which it derives its nourishment
parasites
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the laying of an egg
oviposition
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breed of chicken that is raised primarily for
show or exhibition
ornamental breed
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An extremely contagious disease affecting birds,
including domestic poultry
newcastle disease
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upgraded egg
nest run
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a wooden or plastic egg placed in a neat to encourage chickens
to lay there
nest egg
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death of birds in the flock
mortality
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a sickness in a bird or flock caused by the disease
morbidity
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loss of feathers due to change in season followed by regrowth
molting
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the feathers sticking out from both sides of the face, otherwise called as WHISKERS.
muff
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- the energy of the food eaten less the
energy of the excrement derived from it, both fecal and urinary
metabolizable energy
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the egg that leaks because the shell as cracked and the shell membrane is broken
leaker
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a young male or female bird
juvenile
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keeping poultry in areas separate from other poultry
isolation
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a disease produced by the invasion of living
microscopic organisms
infectious disease
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the invasion of a pathogen into susceptible tissue resulting in disease
infection
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Bathing in dirt or other substances to help remove external
parasites and groom plumage
dust bathing
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a horny cap on a chick’s upper beak that helps the chick pip
through the shell.
egg tooth
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a fertilized egg at any stage of development prior to hatching
embryo
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the amount of fat beneath the skin of a meat bird
finish
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a group of chickens living together.
flock
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domesticated bird raised for food
fowl
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Viral disease in chickens and other species of poultry that
causes lesions on Skin (cutaneous form) and can affect respiratory tract and
upper GI (diphtheritic form)
fowl pox
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feathers that curl rather than lying flat
frizzle
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a tender young meat chicken, also called a BROILER.
fryer
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crushed rock that helps breakdown food in the gizzard
grit
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a rooster cape feathers.
hackles
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the characteristic of a rooster having rounded rather
than pointed sex feather
hen feathered
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female that is a year or older
hen
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Agglutination of red blood cells
hemagglutination
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the offspring of a hen & rooster of different breeds.
hybrid
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the offspring of a heh & rooster of different breeds.
incubation
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the number of eggs a hen lays during a given time.
intensity of lay
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during the hatching process, when the chick breaches the membrane into the air cell of the egg
internal pip
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when a bird has some degree of resistance to a particular disease
immune
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A machine that maintains the perfect temperatures to hatch
an egg
incubator
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two white cords on each side of the yolk that keep it properly positioned within the egg white
chalazae
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cutting of wattles
cropping
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The removal of unprofitable birds from the flock; is the process of separating or eliminating sick and nonproductive birds from the Poultry
culling
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is a process of cutting one third of upper beak at 15 days age for first time and at 16th week for second time
debeaking
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eggs with dirt or stains covering more than ¼ of the shell
dirties
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an impairment of the normal function of any body organ or part
of the bird
disease
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a substance that kills pathogenic organisms but not necessarily spores and is usually applied to inanimate objects.
disinfectant
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the soft, fur like fluff covering a newly hatched chick
down
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chicken manure
droppings
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trim of the comb
dub
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cutting of the comb
dubbing
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cutting of the comb
dubbing
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the habit chickens have in trashing around in soft soil to clean their
feathers and discourage body parasites
dust
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breed of chicken that is raised for both eggs
and meat
dual purpose breed
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an unsexed male readily distinguished by the undeveloped comb
and wattles.
capon
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The feathers protruding from the top of the chicken’s head
crest
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a pouch at the base of the chicken’s neck.
crop
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a pouch at the base of the chicken’s neck.
coop
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a chickens body structure
conformation
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a chicken’s state of health and cleanliness
condition
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the environmental temperature wherein the animal does not exert extra effort to maintain normal body temperature. – in
CHICKEN it is 55 F
comfort zone
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A featherless crest at the top of a chicken’s head
comb
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a male chicken under one year old.
cockerel
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male chicken
cock
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a parasitic protozoal infestation
coccidiosis
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infection with coccidial protozoa without showing any signs.
coccidiasis
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a batch of egg that are hatched together
clutch
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word for a mother hen
clucker
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the sound of hen to comfort her chick
cluck
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An all-in-one urinating, defecating and mating mechanism located on the hind end of the chicken
cloaca
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a scheme whereby a grower enters into a
contract with an integrator to grow broilers up to a marketable age of about
36-42 days.
contract growing
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newly hatched chicken
chick; doc
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An enclosure where the chickens are kept safe and
secure.
chicken coop
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one of the common poultry species
chicken
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an egg with a cracked shell, but the shell membrane is still intact.
check
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a chicken that shows no evidence of a disease, yet harbors the organism, and is capable of transmitting the disease to other
carrier
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the narrow feathers between the nape & back.
cape
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- a nasty behavior manifested by pecking on others’ tails, and feathers
cannibalism
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give five reasons of cannibalism in fowls
1. May be hereditary
2. Rearing of number of fowls in less space
3. They are not subjected to debeaking. Supplying more tasteful, energetic and salty food and
4. High temperature in the poultry farm
5. Lighting
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to examine the contents of an intact egg with light
candle
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chickens kept in cages.
cage fed
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A bacterial infection and inflammatory reaction of the feet of birds.
bumblefoot
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the process of providing supplemental heat to broiler chicks
from hatching up to the time they have grown sufficient feathers to control
their own body temperature
brooding
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A chicken that has decided to sit on and hatch a clutch of eggs
broody
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is caused due to hormonal influence. The broody fowls do not lay eggs and feed. Such fowls are to be separated and kept in bright
light. It is treated by giving estrogen injection and nutrient food
broodiness
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is a collective term for all domestic birds that is of economic service to man
poultry
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are kinds of birds that are included in the term
poultry
poultry species
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total abdominal depth & width.
abdominal capacity
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the distance between the pubic & the keel bone.
abdominal depth
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the distance between the 2 pubic bones
abdominal width
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fear of chickens
alektorophobia
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Medication used as an aid to prevent and treat coccidiosis
and can be found in some medicated chick feeds
amprolium
