4-H Poultry Questions with correct answers 100% 2026

4-H Poultry Questions with correct answers 100% 2026 What is the function of the vent? Is it common to all poultry? - Correct Answer It is the urogenital opening of the bird, the external portion of the cloaca. All poultry have one. It is where the egg, uric acid and feces all exit. In order for a female to lay eggs, does she need the presence of a male? - Correct Answer No, only for fertile eggs to be produced. In what part of the hens reproductive tract is the shell produced? - Correct Answer The Uterus or shell gland. What are the following? Pullet, Hen, Cockerel, Rooster, Capon? - Correct Answer Pullet- young female Hen- female that has laid eggs for about 6 months Cockerel- young male Rooster- mature male Capon- castrated male chicken What is the importance of calcium in the diets of laying hens? - Correct Answer It's needed for the calcium of the egg shell? What precautions must be taken when you introduce new birds into your home flocks? - Correct Answer First check for disease, next quarantine for three weeks, and check of any symptoms. What are the differences between the plumage of male and female chickens? - Correct Answer Male: long, sharp hackle feathers, saddle feathers and sickle feathers on tail. Female: short, blunt hackle feathers, no saddle feathers, and no sickle feathers on tail. Other than feathers, what other anatomical features are unique to the male chicken? - Correct Answer They are larger, comb and wattles, coloring, spurs What are the major external parasites of poultry? How do you perform a parasite check on the chickens or poultry? - Correct Answer Lice and mites, check vent, under wings, on skin under feathers by preen gland, general body area. If you found external parasites how should you treat them? - Correct Answer Use Sevin powder or liquid, dust or spray birds and dust nest boxes. What are the two other names for the breast bone of chickens? - Correct Answer Sternum and keel How many eggs can a hen potentially lay in one year? - Correct Answer 365 What nutrient do chickens and other poultry requite each day? - Correct Answer Protein, carbohydrate, fat, minerals, vitamins, water, oxygen What are the most common feed ingredients used in poultry diets in the United States? - Correct Answer Corn and Soybean meal It has been said that eggs are an almost perfect food, however they are missing on vitamin, what is it? - Correct Answer Vitamin C What does depth of body indicate? - Correct Answer Size of abdomen and ability to hold a forming egg. Why do we measure flexibility of the pubic bones? - Correct Answer To see id they will be open enough for an egg to pass. Why does the judge ask to see the feet and legs of the birds? - Correct Answer To check for deformaties and disease and for parasites. What does "molt" mean relative to chickens? - Correct Answer Lose feathers, reproduction stops, renews the wing damage to maintain control. Why should birds be removed and replaced into cages head first? - Correct Answer Prevent possible wing damage, to maintain control Which of the nutrients, other than oxygen , should poultry have free access to at all times? - Correct Answer Water What is the function of the uropygial (preen) gland? - Correct Answer It produces an oily substance the bird wipes onto its feathers with its beak, for preening. In ducks and waterfowl if helps to waterproof their feathers. Which nutrients, other than oxygen, should poultry have free access to at all times? - Correct Answer water Do chickens ever have teeth? - Correct Answer Yes, egg tooth at hatch to help break through the shell. What does "dual purpose" mean relative to chickens? - Correct Answer Can be used for both meat and and egg production, like Rhode Island Reds, New Hampshire's, White and Barred Plymouth Rocks, etc What does "bleaching" mean relative to chickens? - Correct Answer It refers to the order of loss of skin color in laying hens, particularly in Leghorn type birds, where the yellow pigment, xanthophyll, of the skin fades to white as the pigment us used to color the yolk. Order bleaching: vent, eyering and ear lobes, beak bottom of feet, front of shanks, back of shanks, tops of toes, hock joints, when birds stop laying eggs they replace pigment in reverse order. where does the yellow color of the skin, beak and shanks of the chickens come from? - Correct Answer Xanthophyll from corn and grass they eat What color eggs do Rhode Island Red's, New Hampshire's and sex linked chickens lay? - Correct Answer Brown What breeds of chickens lay blue-green egg(s)? - Correct Answer Araucana and Ameraucana What needs to be supplied in an artificial incubator to hatch eggs? - Correct Answer Heat, Humidity, and Turning How long is the incubation period for chickens, turkeys and ducks and geese? - Correct Answer 21, 28,28,30-32, for muscovy(type of duck) it is 33-35 days At what temperature should most chicken eggs be incubated? - Correct Answer 99.5 degrees F What is the purpose of turning eggs in an incubator? - Correct Answer To keep embryo from sticking to membranes and causing malformations of the embryo. Why should incubators be "fumigated" or "disinfected" prior to use? - Correct Answer To remove any bacteria, virus, or mold organisms that might infect the eggs being hatched. How many eyelids does a chicken have? Why? - Correct Answer Three, upper, lower, and nictating membrane which moves from the front to the rear of the eye and is clear. How many feather tracts do chickens have? - Correct Answer 10- , head, neck, shoulder, wings, breast, back, abdomen, rump, thigh and legs. How many primary and secondary flight feather do most chickens have? - Correct Answer 10 Primary and 14-18 Secondary