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[Wyandottes7]

1. What is the difference between the flight and primary feathers on the wing?
   

There is no difference.

 

[Wyandottes7]

What is a capon?
Note: I am a vegan so don't know much about this but, isn't like a cooked rooster?

A capon is a castrated male chicken. It often grows to huge sizes, and is tender. They aren't as common as they used to be, because the Cornish Cross was developed. But, people used to eat them, because they grew so large.

 

[centrarchid]

Explain what a cecum is and how is relevant to normal physiology of a chicken? Short answer worth 10 points. Include drawings where applicable.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Here are some questions for you to answer (I know the answers)!:

What color egg does the Dorking lay?
What are the two dominant types of comb?
Is the single comb dominant or recessive?
If you cross two blue chickens together, what do you get?
What is the most common type of meat turkey in the United States?
How long does it take, on average, for a Cornish X to reach slaughtering size?
What breed of goose is sex-linked?
What two birds are used to create a Black Sex-Link?
How many days before a show should you wash a chicken?
Should every toe on a Cochin be feathered?

Could you ask me some questions? I want to see how much I know.

 

[Wyandottes7]

Explain what a cecum is and how is relevant to normal physiology of a chicken? Short answer worth 10 points. Include drawings where applicable.

I'm not exactly sure if I'm giving the correct answer. However, I'll try! The cecum are two small blind pouches near the end of the large intestine of a chicken. They have a community of microorganisms that can digest fiber. About every ten droppings, the cecum empty their contents in the form of cecal droppings, which are smellier and often loose and a different color.

 

[BantamLover21]

What is a capon?
Note: I am a vegan so don't know much about this but, isn't like a cooked rooster?

Not exactly. A capon is a male chicken that has had his testicles removed (so he's been castrated). Capons grow bigger than normal roosters, have hen-like comb/wattle development, and are not usually aggressive. Before the development of the Cornish X hybrid meat chicken, Capons were common; nowadays, though, there are few of them because of their slow growth (ready for eating at 18-20 weeks).

 

[BantamLover21]

There is no difference.

x2.

 

[BantamLover21]

How does chicken (and other bird) blood differ from that of a mammal?
Birds' erythrocytes have organelles and nuceli, which most mammals do not have.

Correct!

 

[BantamLover21]

I'm not exactly sure if I'm giving the correct answer. However, I'll try! The cecum are two small blind pouches near the end of the large intestine of a chicken. They have a community of microorganisms that can digest fiber. About every ten droppings, the cecum empty their contents in the form of cecal droppings, which are smellier and often loose and a different color.

Good description! Almost exactly what I was going to say.

 

[centrarchid]

I'm not exactly sure if I'm giving the correct answer. However, I'll try! The cecum are two small blind pouches near the end of the large intestine of a chicken. They have a community of microorganisms that can digest fiber. About every ten droppings, the cecum empty their contents in the form of cecal droppings, which are smellier and often loose and a different color.

Very good for nine of ten points. What are the fiber sources? Hint, confined birds consume much less than free range birds and one source has lots of nitrogen in it.