Chickens

Chickens came to the USA in .....

1500's

The American Poultry Association was organized on ________________for adopting standards of excellence and establishing ways of classifying the various breeds

1873

Domestication of chickens was in.....

2000 B.C.

Hen

Adult female chicken over one year of age

Rooster

An adult male chicken (silky)

Chick

Baby chicken

This country leads the most head slaughtered annually

Brazil at 3380 million

Plymouth Rock

Color: Barred, White, Buff, Silver Penciled, Partridge, Columbian, Blue, Black. Used for meat and eggs. Single comb, most are dark barred.

Ameraucana

Color: Black, Blue, Blue Wheaten, Brown Red, Buff, Silver, Wheaten, White. Used for Egg-laying. Some have blue legs, they have muffs and a beard.

Naked neck (Turken)

Color: Black, White, Buff, Red. Used for meat and eggs. naked neck, look kind of like turkey,

Cornish

Color: Dark, White, White laced red. Used for meat. Close-fitting feathers, small pea combs, large legs, very stocky birds

Rhode island

Color: Red, White. Used for Meat and Eggs. medium in size, single comb

Sussex

Color: Red, speckled, light. Used for meat and eggs. Fat bodied bird, single comb

Easter Egger

Color: Varies. Used for egg laying. No feathered legs, puffy ears, medium in size, very good egg layer, eggs in colors of green, olive, blue, pink, multi

Leg horn (white)

Color: White, Pearl-white. Used for Egg-laying. single comb, smaller bird.

Pullet

Female chicken under one year of age

Chinese and Indians

First people to domesticate chickens

This state leads the Nation in production in Broiler Chickens

Georgia

Clutch

Group of eggs, usually about 12

Broody Hen

Hen that wants to sit on eggs to hatch them

This state leads the nation in Production of Eggs

Iowa

Layers

Mature female chicken kept for egg production

The uses of chickens are ......

Meat, paper and plastics (Feathers), Eggs

Chick tooth

Sharp end of chick's beak used to poke a hole in the egg's shell during hatching

Down

Soft, fine feathers on chicks

How chickens begin communicating before they are hatched

The mother hen talks to the egg

Brooding period

The stage of life between hatch and adulthood.

Israeli's

first people to raise chickens for food