Poultry

Poultry

Poultry is a category of domestic birds kept and raised for the purpose of collecting eggs or killing and using their meat.

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Infertile

Meat products; Poultry

An egg that is not fertilized, will not hatch.

Hackles

Meat products; Poultry

A rooster's cape feathers. 'Sex feathers' on the side and rear of the neck of a fowl. The ends are usually pointed in males and rounded in females.

Turkey

Meat products; Poultry

A large game bird native to the Americas. Wild turkeys are found throughout North and South America and there are a number of domesticated breeds. Males are called toms, females called hens and ...

American breeds

Meat products; Poultry

Those breeds developed in America and having common characteristics such as yellow skin, non-feathered shanks, and red earlobes. All lay brown eggs except Lamonas, which lay white eggs.

Hatch

Meat products; Poultry

The process by which a chick comes out of the egg; also, a group of chicks that come out of their shells at roughly the same time. Also, a breed of game chicken used for fighting.