Question: From what country do most domesticated  quails today descend from ?
Answer: modern domesticated flocks are mostly of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)

Question: Why did the Japanses begin to breed quails in teh 20th century?
Answer: Japanese breeders began to selectively breed for increased egg production.

Question: When did the quail egg business begin to really become an economic driven industry?
Answer: By 1940, the quail egg industry was flourishing,

Question: What caused a marked sownturn in the production of quail eggs following the industry boom?
Answer: the events of World War II led to the complete loss of quail lines bred for their song type, as well as almost all of those bred for egg production

Question: How many eggs can be laid by the present day decendants of the Japanese quail?
Answer: Modern birds can lay upward of 300 eggs a year

Question: Are quails used for any purpose other than human consumption ?
Answer: Japanese quail are also used in biomedical research in fields such as genetics, embryology, nutrition, physiology, pathology, and toxicity studies

Question: What continent is the evolution of guinea fowl credited to?
Answer: Africa

Question: Who first domesticated the guinea fowl ?
Answer: ancient Greeks and Romans.

Question: Aside from consumption how are Guinea fowl  useful to humans.
Answer: They will keep a vegetable garden clear of pests and will eat the ticks that carry Lyme disease.

Question: What are Guinea fowl  also praised for accomplishing for humans?
Answer: roost in trees and give a loud vocal warning of the approach of predators.

Question: What is the gourmet title given to pigeons ?
Answer: A squab

Question: From what variety of pigeon does the squab decen?
Answer: rock pigeon (Columba livia)

Question: Are squabs treated differently from other piegons by humans aside from consumption?
Answer: When they hatch, the squabs are fed by both parents on "pigeon's milk", a thick secretion high in protein produced by the crop

Question: How often are pigeons able to breed for the consumption process ?
Answer: a prolific pair should produce two squabs every four weeks during a breeding season lasting several months

Question: What is the most popular type of poulty that is farmed?
Answer: Worldwide, more chickens are kept than any other type of poultry

Question: How many birds are routinely raised in the world for the consumption process?
Answer: 50 billion birds being raised each year as a source of meat and eggs.

Question: How is the cost of the price for animal feed related to the poulty cost for consumers?
Answer: High feed costs could limit further development of poultry production

Question: Before industrialization how were chickens normally cared for?
Answer: birds would have been kept extensively in small flocks, foraging during the day and housed at night.

Question: What is the major significance of chickens to women in underdeveloped countries?
Answer: the women often make important contributions to family livelihoods through keeping poultry

Question: What is the benefit to chickens of being in a free-range farming location?
Answer: the birds have access to natural conditions and can exhibit their normal behaviours

Question: What is yarding in relation to the pultry industry?
Answer: birds have access to a fenced yard and poultry house at a higher stocking rate

Question: What is the most intensive type of enclosure system used in the poultry business?
Answer: battery cages, often set in multiple tiers

Question: How are eggs collected in teh battery cage system?
Answer: The eggs are laid on the floor of the cage and roll into troughs outside for ease of collection

Question: What is the average size of chickens used extensively for it's meat production raised in an intensive environment? 
Answer: carcass size (2 kg (4.4 lb))

Question: How long does it take for an broiler raisedin an intensive environment very to reach optimum size?
Answer: six weeks or less

Question: What is the death rate among chickens who are intensivley breed to be broilers?
Answer: Mortality rates at 1%

Question: Do chicken raised in the intensive broiler method suffer from health condions?
Answer: their legs cannot always support their weight and their hearts and respiratory systems may not be able to supply enough oxygen to their developing muscles.

Question: How long does it take for a chicken raised in a less intensive envionment to reach optimal broiler size?
Answer: 18 weeks to reach similar weights

Question: What are some of the major concerns with intensive breeding programs?
Answer: cannibalism, feather pecking and vent pecking can be common

Question: What harsh measures do farmers use to prevent the chickens from harming themselves or others?
Answer: some farmers using beak trimming as a preventative measure

Question: What are some of the major concerns with extensive breeding programs such as free range ?
Answer: the birds are exposed to adverse weather conditions and are vulnerable to predators and disease-carrying wild birds.

Question: How is the spread of the avian flu related to the conditions in which chickens are kept?
Answer: In Southeast Asia, a lack of disease control in free-range farming has been associated with outbreaks of avian influenza.

Question: What is considered the most alarming setting for chickens to be raised in?
Answer: Barn systems have been found to have the worst bird welfare.

Question: Is there a pplace where lovers of the chicken are able to see some of its best attributes ?
Answer: In many countries, national and regional poultry shows are held where enthusiasts exhibit their birds

Question: In such competitions what are the chickens juged on? What attibutes are considered viable?
Answer: birds which are judged on certain phenotypical breed traits as specified by their respective breed standards

Question: Are there breed standards used for the competitions?
Answer: Breed standards were drawn up for egg-laying, meat-type, and purely ornamental birds, aiming for uniformity

Question: What are some of the most widely known poultry tournaments?
Answer: the annual "National Championship Show" in the United Kingdom organised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain.

Question: From where does the idea of a poultry tournament orginate?
Answer: The idea of poultry exhibition may have originated after cockfighting was made illegal, as a way of maintaining a competitive element in poultry husbandry

Question: Jo w common is the consumtion of poultry in the world?
Answer: Poultry is the second most widely eaten type of meat in the world, accounting for about 30% of total meat production worldwide

Question: How many animals of the poultry variety are raised for consumtion each year?
Answer: Sixteen billion birds are raised annually

Question: What type of enviornment is poultry most commonly raised in?
Answer: more than half of these in industrialised, factory-like production units

Question: How many industry models are followed for the production process of poultry?
Answer: There are two distinct models of production;

Question: What is the Europeon model of the poultry business ?
Answer: the European Union supply chain model seeks to supply products which can be traced back to the farm of origin

Question: How many ducks did China produce for consumption in 2011?
Answer: China producing two thirds of the total, some 1.7 billion birds

Question: What other countries are important to the duck husbandry business?
Answer: Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia and South Korea (12% in total)

Question: Who is the largest producer of duck meat among the western nations?
Answer: France (3.5%) is the largest producer in the West,

Question: What is the market percentage held by the country that controls the biggest share of the global market for goose and guinea fowl meat
Answer: 94% share