Poultry Chickens are classified as layers or broilers –Broilers: young chickens grown for their meat –Layers: chickens developed to produce huge numbers of eggs Bantam: another class of chickens –Miniature versions of standard breeds –Bantams are used primarily for show

Poultry Turkeys –Large white: 90% of commercial production –Because of large breast they are unable to mate naturally.

Poultry Leghorn –Originated in England –Lays 300 eggs/year

Horses Quarter Horse –The American Breed –Oldest breed in the United States –Used for pleasure, roping and working –Can have HYPP

Horses Arabians –Originated in the middle East –Have 23 vertebrae rather than the normal 24 –Can trace ancestry to one of five stallions owned by King Solomon in 1635 BC

Horses Paints –Brought to the US by Cortes –3 color patterns –Used for pleasure or work

Horses Clydesdale –From Scotland –18 hands (6 feet) tall –Weigh as much as a Volkswagon Beetle –There feet are the size of a dinner plate –Bred to work in the coal fields