Junior 4-H Poultry Quizbowl with correct answers 100% 2025

Junior 4-H Poultry Quizbowl with correct answers 100% 2025 At what temperature should most chicken eggs be incubated? - Correct Answer 99 degrees Fahrenheit How many nest boxes should be provided for a flock of laying hens? - Correct Answer Usually 1 for every 5 chickens In General, what air temperature should be provided for growing chicks? - Correct Answer About 95 degrees for the first week, dropping 5 degrees per week, until reacjing ambient temperature How many nest boxes should be provided for a flock of laying hens? - Correct Answer 1 for every 5 chickens Eggs are an almost perfect food, they are missing one vitamin which one is it? - Correct Answer Vitamin C How can you tell if baby chicks under a brooder light have the correct temperature? - Correct Answer If they are spread out evenly under the light, and not bunched up together. or away from the light. If the chicks are all to one side, then they are feeling a draft of cold air. What does the depth of body mean? - Correct Answer Size of the abdomen and ability to hold a forming egg To Keep a flock of laying hens producing eggs all year, what environmental factors are needed, to meet the needs of the chicken? - Correct Answer LIGHT. Maintain 16 hours of light per day, year-round. What are basic signs of good health in chickens? - Correct Answer Alert, active, clear eyes; good manure consistency, no external parasites. If the sternum of a chick is found to be crooked, what nutritional deficiency could be the cause? - Correct Answer Rickets- a lack of calcium, phosphorus, or Vitamin D in the diet. For a female to lay eggs, does she need the presence of a male? - Correct Answer No. She needs a male only to produce fertilized eggs. How many eggs can a hen potentially lay in 1 year? - Correct Answer 365, one a day. What are the major external parasites of poultry? - Correct Answer Lice and Mites What is a Pullet? - Correct Answer Young Female, less than a year old (hatched this year) What is a Hen? - Correct Answer A female more than 1-year-old. What is a Cockerel? - Correct Answer A male chicken, less than a year old.