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    The document provides guidance on assessing male chickens for production. It outlines key areas to examine, including the head, legs/feet, feathering, and bodyweight/fleshing. A healthy male should have an intense red color around its comb and eyes, straight clean legs, some partial feather loss, and be at a correctly fleshed bodyweight with a large moist vent.

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    The document provides guidance on assessing male chickens for production. It outlines key areas to examine, including the head, legs/feet, feathering, and bodyweight/fleshing. A healthy male should have an intense red color around its comb and eyes, straight clean legs, some partial feather loss, and be at a correctly fleshed bodyweight with a large moist vent.

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    AA Male Assessment Poster

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    The document provides guidance on assessing male chickens for production. It outlines key areas to examine, including the head, legs/feet, feathering, and bodyweight/fleshing. A healthy male should have an intense red color around its comb and eyes, straight clean legs, some partial feather loss, and be at a correctly fleshed bodyweight with a large moist vent.

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    Male Assessment in Production

    The Head The Legs & Feet Feathering Bodyweight & Fleshing

    Under Fleshed

    Correctly Fleshed

    Over Fleshed

    • Males should have a uniform intense • Legs should be straight with no bent • A good quality male that is working • Male condition/fleshing and body
    red color around the comb, wattle toes. Footpads should be clean and free well will exhibit some partial feather weight should be monitored
    and eye area. The beak should be from abrasions. Pigment around the loss especially on the shoulders and weekly.
    uniform in shape. hocks reflects a good working male. thighs.

    The Vent

    • The vent should show some feather


    wear and be large and moist.

    Library photographs for teaching purposes. www.aviagen.com August 2010

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