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taining charcoal, grit, and oyster shell should always be 

 available to the fawls. 



QUESTIONS 



1. Discuss the growth and progress that have been made in 

 breeding poultry for standard requirements and high production. 



2. What is the advantage of breeding fowls for standard require- 

 ments and capable of high production? 



3. Discuss heredity, variation, sports, reversion, correlation, re- 

 gression, progression, prepotency and fecundity. 



4. What is meant by inbreeding, line-breeding, outbreeding, 

 crossbreeding? 



5. Describe the process known as "Grading Up." 



6. Name the various parts of the fowl. 



7. Name the head parts found in the crested breeds. 



8. What breeds are characterized by having a fifth toe. 



9. What are two of the most important essentials in selecting 

 breeders? 



10. Discuss the general appearance and action of fowls that are 

 to be considered as breeders. 



11. When selecting the breeding pen, discuss the desirable char- 

 acteristics that they should possess as concerning size, head, neck, 

 wings, back, etc. 



12. In general what are some of the outstanding defects that 

 should be guarded against in selecting breeders? 



13. What things should be kept in mind when breeders are 

 selected for exhibition purposes primarily? For meat production? 

 For egg production? 



14. Describe single mating, double mating, stud mating, flock 

 mating. 



15. How long should the breeding pen be mated before eggs are 

 saved for hatching? 



16. When in confinement or yarded, how many Leghorn hens can 

 be mated to a male bird? As concerning the general-purpose breeds, 

 how many hens can be mated to a male bird, when confined? When 

 given free range? 



17. What is the advantage of free range over confinement for the 

 breeding stock? 



18. Discuss the management and feeding of the breeding pen. 



SUGGESTIONS 



1 . Should you have a flock of fowls, would it not be to your advan- 

 tage to so breed them as to combine standard requirements and pro- 

 duction? What steps would you take to accomplish this end? 



2. Could you not endeavor to have some one of the poultry 

 breeders in your community give a talk on breeding poultry before a 

 near-by farmers' club or grange? Could not such a talk be arranged 

 also before the Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs in your community 

 school? 



