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Lecture 32 Flashcards

1
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Why did we domesticate poultry?

5pts

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  • Food source
    - Meat, eggs
  • Clothing
    - Feathers
  • Other
    - Companionship
    - Ornamental
    - Fighting
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What are the sexual preferences of avian species?

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Differs:
* Polygamous
- chickens, turkeys, pheasants, ostriches, reas
* Monogamous
- Geese, quail, emu, pigeons, ducks, partridges, grouse, guinea fowl

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What is the group structure like in avian species?

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Large groups for at least part of the year (don’t stay in groups during breeding to avoid inbreeding)
* ostrich
Solitary (come together during breeding)
* Pheasants

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4
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How does incubation and guarding of offspring differ between avian species?

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Males
* Emus, rhea
Male and female
* Ostriches, bobwhite quail, geese
Female
* Chickens, mallard ducks, grouse

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5
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What bird were our chickens domesticated from?

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Red Jungle Fowl

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What is the Red Jungle Fowls social structure like?

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A lot like horses
* Harem polygynous species with a dominant male to defend the boundaries
* May be small all-male flocks in the wild

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What is the social structure like in chickens?

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Dominant male
* Tolerant of other young males
* NOT tolerant of oler males (because of competition and injury
Females in the flock
* Cominance hierarchy (suppression)

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What are the behaviours exhibited by chickens during breeding season?

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Males attempt to intimidate males and attract females
* Males - wings flapping, preening, tail wagging, tit-biting/cornering, waltzing
* Females - crouching

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9
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What are the winter months like for wild turkeys?

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  • Either sex separate or mixed sexfamily groups
    - male flocks - siblings that remain together for their lifetime
    - female flocks - from various groups
  • Dominance hierarchies both male and female groups
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10
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What happens during breeding season all the time and sometimes in wild turkeys?

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Usually:
* Males compete to gain dominance
* Mate with females which gather at central area
* Dominant gets the most matings
Sometimes:
* May have a harem polygenous mating system where one male has 4 to 6 females

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11
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What does space in the wild depend on?

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  • resources
  • group size
  • shelter
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12
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How far can the jungle fowl, turkeys, and quails travel?

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  • Jungle fowl - 50km
  • Turkeys - 8-16kn, up to 32km in winter
  • Quail - 80 km in winter
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13
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How is vision important in chickens?

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  • better than human vision
  • avoiding predators
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14
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What does commercial production have to consider with the vision of chickens?

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  • Daylength
  • Light intensity
  • Light colour
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15
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What signals do chickens use to communicate?

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  • Postures - display threat and submission
  • vocalization - 31 calls in chickens
  • crowing - territorial control (only dominant male)
    - crowing frequency correlated with comb length
    - males use crowing to asses dominance of other males
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16
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What are the morphological features of chickens, quail, and turkeys?

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  • Chickens - comb size
  • Quail - large numbers of sexually dimorphic feathers around head and neck
  • Turkeys - necks are featherless, snood (grows when female is near), caruncles, colour, puff up feathers
17
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Why do chicken and turkeys cohabitate?

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  • Could be habitat - roosting sites, food sources
  • Relationship between conspecifics
    - chickens stay close to cominant male (non-breeding season - female to female relationships close)
    - Turkeys - appears to be the sibling male relationships that maintain group cohesion
18
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What are interactions between groups of wild turkeys and jungle fowl?

3 pts

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  • If food is scarce, 2 or 3 turkey groups may join
  • Jungle fowl - territories - tend to stay in those
  • most interaction occurs at the start of the breeding season
19
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What are interactions within a group like for turkeys and jungle fowl for male to male?

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  • Jungle fowl: dominance hierarchy; dominant fowl often attacks subordinate that attempts to crow
  • Turkey - male siblings co-operate with each other; dominant breeds the most, but all have the opportunity
20
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What are interactions within a group like for turkeys and jungle fowl for male to female?

3 pts

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  • Often elaborate courtships by males
  • JF - plumage color not important, but comb size is
  • Turkey - longer snoods and wider heads
21
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What are interactions within a group like for turkeys and jungle fowl for parent - offspring?

3 pts

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Embryonic calls
* To parent to tell her to turn the eggs or return to nest
* Hen calls may be important in maternal call recognition

22
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What are interactions within a group like for turkeys and jungle fowl for siblings (embryos)?

5 pts

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Hatching synchrony in precocial birds
* Low frequency delays
* Clicking advantages
Chicks can recognize their parents as well as their siblings
* Later, prefer mates that are slightly different than siblings (avoid inbreeding)

23
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What are social groupings like for laying hens?

1 pt

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Primarily housed in groups of 3-60 in cages, or barns with 1000’s of birds in one open area

24
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What are social groupings like for meat birds?

1 pt

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kept in floor pens

25
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What are social groupings like for breeding flocks?

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  • chicken - natural mating (males and females together)
  • turkeys - AI (kept separate)
26
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What are the social effects on production?

4 pts

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Laying hens - interaction between social rank, aggression, feeding behaviour, and egg production
* Many selected strains are quite aggressive (dampens with age)
* Hens like to feed close to each other, and synchronize each other
* Also lay eggs near other eggs - potential problem in group housing systems

27
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What are some social effects on reproduction for broiler breeders (feed restricted birds)?

1 pt

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If dominant birds successfully beat out subordinate birds, they become fat, and the subordinates become thing - affects egg production on both sides

28
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What are the social effects on reproduction?

4 pts

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  • Subordinate roosters show delayed sexual maturity
  • High ranking dominant males mate more
  • These factors might mean there are females who are never mated in a breeding flock
  • Consequence - not fertilized eggs
29
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What is group composition like for reproduction birds?

4 pts

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Common to house males and females separately until breeding age
* Less repro behav at 20 wks compared to males raised with females
* Eggproduction hens lay earlier if they can see and hear males
* Egg production higher in turkeys if they can see and hear males

30
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How does group size and space affect social behaviour?

6 pts

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In general, increasing group size shows:
* higher mortality and damage
* more stress
In general, increasing stocking density shows:
* Increased mortality
* increased feather damage and cannibalism

31
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How does the group size impact aggression?

3 pts

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  • Small groups - high in beginning (stable hierarchy)
  • Mid sized groups - highest
  • large groups - lowest (give up on hierarchy)
32
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How grouping animals has effects on social behaviour?

5 pts

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  • Birds fon’t like unfamiliar birds
  • Not common to remiz most laying hens
  • When this has been tested, hens will mix with unfamiliar hens after only a few hours
    - short term stress effects (corticosteroid levels)
  • Adult breeding flocks - mixing of males and females close to sexual maturity or spiking males

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