Ameraucana Chicken For my animal research project, I chose to do research on the ameraucana chicken. The common name of the Ameraucana chicken is the Ameraucana chicken. Its scientific name is Gallus gallus domesticus, meaning that the Gallus gallus domesticus is a type of domesticated fowl, and it originates from the red junglefowl. It is the most common species of domestic animals. The chicken’s phylum is chordate. Chordate means an animal of the large phylum Chordata, combing the vertebrates together. The classification of the chicken is a bird and a reptile. Did you know that ameraucana chickens lay blue and green eggs? I genuinely believe that the ameraucana chicken is a very fascinating animal. The ameraucana chicken lives in almost all of North America, and some of South America. The chicken lives in shady wooded areas, because of all of the bugs and berries. The …show more content…
The back bone is one of the strongest bones in a chicken’s body, after the feet. Without the backbone, the chicken couldn’t move its neck or wings. Believe it or not, the Ameraucana chicken is an omnivore. They eat plants, bugs, and meat from many different animals. I have chickens of my own, and they will eat just about anything that you throw at them. The Ameraucana chicken is not in relation to any animals other than the Easter Egger chicken, and the Araucana chicken. Did you know that the Ameraucana chicken is one out of three full breeds of chickens that can lay colorful eggs? Yep, you guessed it! The other two full bred chickens are the Easter Egger, and the Araucana! I bet you didn’t know that chickens are fierce, aggressive and competitive. If one chicken sticks its chest out, the other one has to stick theirs out farther! One last fact! Ameraucana chickens were developed in the 1970s to breed with Araucanas to try to get rid of unwanted characteristics, like the rumpless figure, and the lack of neck
The Australian King Parrot is found in several areas of Australia. They like to live in Australia's rainforests and the sclerophyll forests.
Mourning Doves lives in many places, and they are easy to find. The Mourning Dove lives all around North America the northern doves you have probably seen or heard before. Their habitat is in your backyard, the woods, even when nesting they have nest in high trees or on people's roofs on, perches, anywhere humans are they love. When migrating some stayin high trees in holes in trees mostly oak and maple.
The adult Great Blue Heron is a blue-gray color. They have a black stripe above their yellow eyes. The stripe extends to the back of the neck turning into a plume of feathers like a ponytail. They have gray, shaggy neck feathers with streaks of white, black, and rust-brown. They
Chickens used for egg production typically live in one of many battery cages crammed into a long windowless shed. Ten or more of these hens are packed together in a cage that is about the size of a drawer in a filing cabinet. This causes frustration and fighting between the hens. To keep this from happening, farmers often cut or burn part of their beaks off without medicine to dull the pain. Hens who become sick are usually not given proper veterinary care and are left to die slowly and painfully. Some of the eggs laid by the hens are hatched by another industry to supply more chickens for egg production. Since the hatched male chicks cannot lay eggs, they are often killed by grinding or suffocation. When the hens grow old and stop producing as many eggs, many farmers will deny them proper nutrition to try and “shock” their bodies into laying eggs one last time. Then they are slaughtered and their bodies are used for food scraps.
In this exercise, we will examine a fresh raw chicken bone to study bone structure.
Its name means swift or speedy thief they actually have feathers you might think of it as a giant chicken, but it's only about knee high to an adult human it's only three feet tall and six feet long. some scientist believe that birds are dinosaurs they both have wishbones and relative bones and have hollow bones, and they're both covered in feathers, the dinosaurs couldn't fly because they weighed too much. There's no evidence that they lived in packs they supposedly lived solitary, they to weapons to kill their prey as they used their single curved hind claws. But they also had their very sharp teeth and hands and its favorite lunch is the protoceratops, and they might have been warm-blooded like our mammals
This week’s reading topic is about the history of chickens. In the Smithsonian article “ How the Chicken Conquered the World” by Andrew Lawler and Jerry Adler, it discusses about how chickens have saved the Western civilization. According to the legend, the Athenian general Themistocles came across a cocks fight during his way to invade the Persians forces. In addition, history records that the Greeks repel the invaders and preserved the civilisation “honors the creatures by breading, frying and dipping them into one’s choice of sauce.” These creatures are known as the descendants of roosters.
breeding in North American and spending the winter south of the border in Mexico. The burrowing owl
Many years ago, backyard chickens were commonplace throughout the United States of America – mainly for nutrition. During that time, backyard chickens were easy to take care of and a small number of them could feed a family with meat and eggs for a bargain. Years later, manufacturing food became the way of life and
Some female reptiles will guard the eggs they lay, and others will not, but egg guarding is about as far as parental care typically goes. Alligator mississippiensis is one of the rare exceptions to this common reptilian trend. Gravid female alligators will build nests, lay the eggs, and protect them from possible predators. When presented with a possible threat to her clutch, the female will hiss, or lunge at the perceived predator (Kushlan, 1973). Come hatching time, she may open the nest or help the juveniles out of their eggs, and carry them in her mouth to the water (Passek, 1999). In some cases, males have assisted the hatching of the offspring by breaking open the eggs, similar to the female. According to Passek, hatchlings communicate with each other while still in the eggs by using vocalizations. When hatched, these vocalizations are calls that alert the mother to possible distress.
There are two categories for these birds. Chickens raised for eggs are called “Layers” and those raised for meat are called “Broilers.” A chicken’s fate has a lot to do with its gender. Male chicks have no economic use since they cannot lay eggs and not genetically bred for meat. They are basically waste products and must be removed. “They are crushed, gassed, or discarded in trash bags to suffocate, or simply piled one on top of another, to die from dehydration or asphyxiation” (Compassion Over Killing, 2011). According to People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), more than 100 million of male chicks are killed every year.” (PETA 2011).
By comparison, both Chauntecleer and Cockatrice are dominant roosters that command attention from the creatures in their communities. Likewise they are both offspring of past Lords of the Coop in their realm. Animals and creatures in their land and Coop hold a degree of fear of them. While both are able to gather their subjects together, the
Imagine never seeing the real sun. You’re stuck in this cage with artificial lighting for your whole life. Until one day you finally get to go outside. Only to be sent to a slaughterhouse. The first day you get to see the sun will sadly the last. This is the shocking reality for most caged hens, not to mention the outrageous conditions they are kept in. These conditions impact on their health majorly. In addition to non-caged eggs actually being better for you. Caged eggs should be one hundred percent outlawed.
The chickens are selectively bred and are given special drugs in the food and water to make the chickens grow incredibly fast. Because of the breeding and drugs, a lot of the chickens develop leg problems which make is sometimes impossible to walk and stand so they either can’t get to the food or they can’t reach the water. Also, because of the ammonia in the feces, the chickens often get the skin on their stomachs burnt because the ammonia is so strong and will just sear the feathers and skin. The ammonia is also in the air so it is hard to breath and just think of what is in the chicken that you eat on a daily basis. When the chickens turn 7 weeks old, they are transported to the slaughter house and are hung by their feet and on conveyer belts and they go past a blade that is supposed to slit the chickens throat while conscious which is incredibly painful but sometimes it misses so the chicken is thrown into boiling water alive and usually drowns while getting burnt. After that, the bodies are striped and beheaded and are cut up to be eaten.
Backyard poultry rearing also finds an important role to raise indigenous birds free of stress and harmful residues (Khandekar 2003, Mandal et al. 2006).