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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Stress

Meat products; Poultry

Any physical or mental tension that reduces resistance to disease.

Fowl

Meat products; Poultry

Domesticated birds raised for food; also, a stewing hen.

Stub

Meat products; Poultry

Down on the shank or toe of a clean-legged chicken.

Term used to describe the portion of poultry carcasses that consists of hearts, gizzards, and livers. Giblet packages should contain approximately equal numbers of each of those parts. Although not a ...

Hover

Meat products; Poultry

Canopy used on brooder stoves to hold heat near the floor when brooding young stock.

Vagina

Meat products; Poultry

The section of the oviduct next to the uterus in which the cuticle is deposited on the shell and the eggs are turned completely around on its long axis so that the large end is laid first.

Gizzard

Meat products; Poultry

An internal organ of birds. Muscular stomach. It has thick muscular walls and a tough lining. It crushes and grinds foods by muscular action and with pebbles or rock grit.