Poultry Dictionary -- Let's help out the New Guys

[Chris09]

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You're reinventing the wheel. This has already been done. Both the APA and the ABA have extensive glossaries in their Standards. Some of the definitions that are given here are incomplete or questionable. The parent clubs have the correct answers.

Yes there can/will be some differences in definitions depending on which club standard the definition came from.
The definition of "Cock" will have two different definitions depending on whether the definition came from the American Poultry Association Standard or the American Game Fowl Standard.


Chris

 

[Chris09]

Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex :

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I know what you mean! It took me months before I felt I even understood half of them. And many of them I just have to guess at.

I'll add what I know (mostly from my own flock!):

BLRW - blue laced red wyandotte
BO - buff orpington
SLW - silver laced wyandotte
GLW - gold laced wyandotte
SPW - silver penciled wyandotte
BA - I have seen applied to blue andalusians and black australorpes
SS - speckled sussex
EE - easter egger
BR - barred rock



and there's some I am not 100% sure of, so please correct me if I am wrong:

BCM - black copper marans
BBS - blue/black/splash (coloring of birds with the blue gene which has variable outcomes)
SF - salmon favoroles
LF - large fowl ie. not a bantam
RIR - rhode island red
RIW - rhode island white
WL - white leghorn
NHR - new hampshire red
BBW - broad breasted white turkey

Gosh, I know there are more. I feel like I am taking a quiz!

The thing is that abbreviations are more confusing than useful.


Chris​

 

[Narragansett]

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I know what you mean! It took me months before I felt I even understood half of them. And many of them I just have to guess at.

I'll add what I know (mostly from my own flock!):

BLRW - blue laced red wyandotte
BO - buff orpington
SLW - silver laced wyandotte
GLW - gold laced wyandotte
SPW - silver penciled wyandotte
BA - I have seen applied to blue andalusians and black australorpes
SS - speckled sussex
EE - easter egger
BR - barred rock



and there's some I am not 100% sure of, so please correct me if I am wrong:

BCM - black copper marans
BBS - blue/black/splash (coloring of birds with the blue gene which has variable outcomes)
SF - salmon favoroles
LF - large fowl ie. not a bantam
RIR - rhode island red
RIW - rhode island white
WL - white leghorn
NHR - new hampshire red
BBW - broad breasted white turkey

Gosh, I know there are more. I feel like I am taking a quiz!

The thing is that abbreviations are more confusing than useful.


Chris

That's true, especially when they're taken out of context. Everyone in poultry knows what a RIR, AOSB or an OEGB is, or a BV, BB, RV, RB but those are pretty much the only commonly accepted abbreviations. All of the others are simply the product of today's lazy text speak. On a forum, once the page with the first usuage has past, they are meaningless.

 

[hdowden]

straight run: any number of chicks that are sold and arent sexed
cockerel: a young male chicken
stag: a young male chicken that has not reached matuaraty
cock: full grown male chicken
pullet: a young female chicken
hen : full grown female chicken
lf: large fowl
free range: when chickens can roam freely and uncaged
hackle feathers: the feathers on the neck of a chicken
saddle feathers: the feathers at the base of the tail
sickle feathers: long curved feathers on a male chicken's tail

POL: point of lay
SOP: standared of perfection
APA: american poultry assotion(sp)
ABA: american bantam assotion(sp)

bcm: black copper marans
bbr: black breasted red
oegb: old english game bantam
oeg: old english game
slw: silver laced wyandotte
blrw: blue laced red wyandotte
bo: buff orpington
glw: gold laced wyandotte
spw: silver penciled wyandotte
ba: blue andalusians and black australorpes
ss: speckled sussex
ee: easter egger
br: barred rock
sf: salmon favoroles
rir: rhode island red
nhr: new hampshire red
dom: dominique
orp: orpington
wyan: wyandotte

bbs: i'm not sure lol

 

[hdowden]

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The thing is that abbreviations are more confusing than useful.


Chris

That's true, especially when they're taken out of context. Everyone in poultry knows what a RIR, AOSB or an OEGB is, or a BV, BB, RV, RB but those are pretty much the only commonly accepted abbreviations. All of the others are simply the product of today's lazy text speak. On a forum, once the page with the first usuage has past, they are meaningless.

thats were you are wrong i have only seen rir and oegb...never seen the others before so whats aosb, bv, bb, rv, and rb?

 

[Pyncheon guy]

AOSB- Any other Standard Breed BB- Best of Breed RB- Reserve of Breed BV Best of Variety RV- Reserve of Variety

 

[hdowden]

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that deals with showing i havent gotten that far yet as i just have a few chickens that i need to get more and work on before i start showing and before i start i will be asking questions about it to just not yet

 

[Pyncheon guy]

You had asked what they meant and I answered. Whether you show yet or not...you'll know what they mean when you run across them again.

 

[Chris09]

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A Stag isn't a, "full grown male chicken"

Stag
A young male bird, that hasn't reached it's maturity yet.


Chris

 

[hdowden]

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A Stag isn't a, "full grown male chicken"

Stag
A young male bird, that hasn't reached it's maturity yet.


Chris

i wasnt sure on that so i will go and correct as to not confuse anyone. i have only seen full grown roosters being called stags...