Poultry

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  • Poultry are domesticated and commercialized types of birds that are used for production purposes
  • Domestication is the process by which wild organisms are brought under human control, improved through breeding and handling, and their products or services become more useful
  • Domestication is a sustainted multi-generational mutalistic relationship
  • Domestication is a sustainted multi-generational mutalistic relationship
  • Symbiosis is a close relationship between two species in which at least one species benefits
  • Mutualism is when both species benefit
  • Commensalism is when one species benefits and the other is not affected
  • Parasitism\ is when one species benefits at the expense of the other
  • There are a total of 474 domesticated animals (44 land animals)
  • There is a predicted 8.7 million species in the world
  • Gaspand Bauhin is a botanist that began the formal naming system
  • Carl Linnaeus is the person who mainly started the formal naming system
  • Heminomonymus is when the same noma is used for taxa in different jurisdictions
  • The pathways to domestication are commensal, prey, and directed
  • The commensal pathway is when the animals are adapted to a human niche (ex. dog, cat, chicken)
  • The prey pathway is when a prey animal is sought for food (cattle, sheep, goat, pigs)
  • The directed pathway is when animals are targeted for draft and non food resources (horses, donkey, camel)
  • Obstacles to domestication are diet not easily supplied, slow growth rate/long birth spacing, reluctance to breed in captivity, nasty disposition, tendency to panic, lack of dominance hieracharies
  • Key domestication traits are having an efficient diet, quick growth rates, ability ti breed in captivity, docile, tendency not to panic, social structures, diurnal
  • Florivore eats plant matter
  • Omnivore eats both plant matter and animal matter
  • Faunivore eat animal matter
  • Precocial species are when the young are relatively mature and mobile and require limited parental care
  • Altricial is when the young of a species are initially incapable of moving around on their own and require extensive parental care
  • Monogamy is when there is one male and one female in a breeding pair
  • Polygyny is when there is one male and multiple females for breeding
  • Polyandry is when there is one female and multiple males in a breeding system
  • Chickens come from the Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus Gallus), was domesticated in China with the commensal pathway
  • Chickens are used for a food source, entertainment, and religious/cerimonial purposes
  • Turkeys (Melagris gallopave) was domesticated in Mesoamerica through the prey pathway
  • Common quail (Coturnx coturnix) was domesticated in Egypt for meat and eggs
  • Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) was domesticated in japan as songbirds, eggs, and meat
  • Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) was domesticated in China through the commensal and prey pathways
  • Muscovys (Cairina musenata) was domesticated in Mexico through the prey pathway
  • Mule ducks (muscovy male x pekin female) are sterile and used for meat and foie gras
  • Greylag geese (Anser anser) were domesticated in Egypt
  • Swan goose (Anser cygnoides) was domesticated in China
  • Geese were domesticated through the commensal pathway
  • Rock Dove pigeon (Clumbia livia) was domesticated for meat through the commensal pathway
  • Ostriches (Struthio camelus) was domesticated in South Africa