Poultry

Poultry

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

Industry: Meat products

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truckload

Meat products; Poultry

A trailorload of 20 to 22 pallets of poultry products weighing roughly 40,000 pounds.

spent hen

Meat products; Poultry

A hen that does adequately not perform its duty of breeding or egg laying.

Straight-run chicks

Meat products; Poultry

Day-old chicks that have not been separated according to sexes.

Strain

Meat products; Poultry

A group of birds within a variety that has been bred by one person or firm for some time and has more or less uniform characteristics and capabilities.

Part of a hen's natural reproductive cycle. After laying eggs for about a year, a hen loses her feathers and rests for a few weeks as new feathers grow in. This is called molting, or a molt, and it ...