POUL 1010E Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update (Graded A+)

POUL 1010E Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update (Graded A+) Definition of galliformes (landfowl) - Answers An order of ground-dwelling birds that are relatively heavy bodied, with well-developed flight muscles and short, rounded wings that allow for explosive takeoffs when threatened by danger Why do hummingbirds hum? - Answers B/c they don't know the words. Are galliformes sexually dimorphic? - Answers Yes - males are larger and more brightly colored while females are cryptically colored What type of chicks do galliformes produce? Altricious/precocious - Answers Precocious Why did the little bird get in trouble in school? - Answers B/c he was caught tweeting in class! What are pheasants used for? - Answers They're kept in captivity as pets by hobbyists, or commercially for hunting preserves or for the gourmet food market What are peafowl used for? - Answers Raised around the world for ornamental display purposes, as they are known for their extremely colorful tails Why are peafowl controversial? - Answers They leave huge messes and are very loud, but they are very pretty so some people love having them around What is the largest North American game bird? - Answers North American Wild Turkey Males weigh 20-25 pounds while females weight 10-15 What are the anatomical pieces on a turkey head? - Answers The snood, caruncles, wattle, and beard What is the snood? - Answers The long nose they have, where a fleshy piece of skin extends over the bill when displaying for a female What are caruncles/ - Answers The top of the head, bumpy skin growths. Unknown purpose What is the wattle? - Answers The flappy part of the neck What is the beard? - Answers A unique tuft of bristle feathers protruding from the chest What kind of habitat do turkeys prefer? - Answers A mix of mature forest and open agriculture areas Who has a better phone; Amanda or Andrewsmells - Answers Amanda What are some turkey habits? - Answers Diet consists of seeds, especially acorns, as well as berries, insects, snails, and plant shoots Travel in sex-specific groups until mating season Polygamous, with one male mating with several femaes Males don't help with kids Where turkeys ever endangered? - Answers Yes, once colonists came over and started hunting and clearing forests, extinction became a possibility. But successful trapping and relocation has led a strong conservation effort, and now they are at the least threat for extinction How many turkeys are raised for meat production? - Answers Over 200,00 What is the name for male adult turkeys? - Answers Tom/gobbler What is the name for female adult turkeys? - Answers Hen What is the name for turkey hatchlings? - Answers Poult Boys are jakes, girls are jennies Which jungle fowl species are present in Southeast Asia? - Answers Red Junglefowl, Green Junglefowl, Sri Lanka Junglefowl, Grey Junglefowl Which two jungle fowls' genetics are found in modern day domesticated chickens? - Answers Red jungle fowl and Grey jungle fowl when should you buy a bird? - Answers when it's going cheep! Why were jungle fowl (which eventually turned into chickens) initially domesticated? - Answers Mainly for cockfighting at the Indus Valley Civilization What was the first two locations where domesticated chickens were held? - Answers Indus Valley Civilization and northern China What is Amandas dogs names - Answers Minnie Garble Hatchett Walker & Bleu Berry Thumper Walker Why did Egyptians mass produce chickens? - Answers For display purposes. They were the first group to master mass-production through large-scale incubation What did Greeks use chickens for? - Answers Mostly for cockfighting, but eventually also for meat and eggs What did Romans use chickens for? - Answers Entertainment and for food, mostly, but also divination. The Greeks showed them the way of the chicken What do you give a sick bird? - Answers a tweetment Who is the best employee? - Answers Amanda Who introduced chickens to the Americas? - Answers Nobody knows, but there is evidence for both Polynesians and Europeans What is a batman chicken? - Answers A chicken dressed up like batman...ha..ha What is the ornamental chicken breeding craze? - Answers Euros were used to skinny game chickens, and when the embargo with China was lifted, they got their first look at fat, juicy ornamental chickens and they freaked out. Started breeding them and having chicken shows. What is a bantam chicken? - Answers Smaller versions of a standard breed Why did the bird get a ticket? - Answers it broke the laws of gravity! What is the American Standard of Perfection? - Answers What was originally the Standard of Excellence, it describes the standard physical appearance (with pictures), coloring, and temperament for all recognized breeds of poultry What is a broiler? - Answers Chickens bred for meat production What is a layer? - Answers Hens bred to lay eggs What are the characteristics of an Asiatic chicken? - Answers Have feathered shanks, red ear lobes, pea combs, and large/heavy bodies What are the characteristics of a European chicken? - Answers Have bare shanks, single combs, white ear lobes, and are light in weight and produce more eggs What are backyard flocks? - Answers Backyard flocks were the staple of chicken production from colonial times until the early 1900s The hens provided eggs for the family, while the young, nearly or full-sized males and old hens/roosters could be slaughtered for meat The extra eggs were sold off and became spending money for the women How did the women's movement begin? - Answers Came from egg money Cecile Steele got 500 chicks instead of 50 once, kept them, built a shed, sold them, and repeated until she had thousands and thousands. Her neighbors noticed and they came together to produce almost 1,000,000 birds/year Who created the vertically integrated poultry industry? - Answers Jesse Jewel Sold chicks and feed to farmers, then bought them back giving the farmers a profit and re-sold them at a profit Eventually opened his own hatchery and then his own feed mill and processing plant, so he owned everything necessary Turned Gainesville, GA into the poultry capital of the world and Georgia is still the #1 broiler producing state in the US What are the gains in efficiency in the chicken industry? - Answers For broilers, it only takes 7 weeks, down from 16, to get a bird to market weight now The live weight has doubled and the amount of feed has been halved, Mortality brought to just below 4% from 18 For layers, egg production per hen has tripled and the amount of feed needed to produce a dozen eggs has been halved Efficiency of chickens converting feed into meat compared to other farm animals - Answers Poultry conversion rate is 1.8 pounds of feed per pound of gain, while it's 3.6 in pigs and 8 in beef Beef is inefficient b/c of the ingestion of forage materials Swine and poultry are efficient because they eat highly digestible cereal grains and soybean meal Are poultry products now more or less expensive now than they used to be? - Answers Very cheap b/c of efficiency. Poultry farms expanded, driving down production cost. Since it's so cheap and healthy, it's America's favorite meat Are chickens used for medical research? - Answers Yes, but not as much anymore Pasteur found vaccine for human cholera Peyton Rous found the first known virus to trigger cancer by using chickens Hamburger and Hamilton set the stage for developmental biological studies that still benefit human medicine today through studying chickens Are hormones used in chicken production? - Answers NO. Marketers try to imply their competitors use hormones but it's against the law, so nobody does. It wouldn't be cost efficient, anyways What safeguards are in place to prevent avian flu from getting to humans in the US? - Answers There isn't a problem in the US, just in Asia, and birds don't migrate east to west. It's only a problem where chickens are a big part of everyone's everyday lives (backyard farms) What is counter current blood flow? - Answers Avian legs and feet are unique in that they have