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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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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.
turn
Meat products; Poultry
The act of changing the position of eggs being incubated to prevent the embryos from sticking to the shell membranes.
hatchability
Meat products; Poultry
The quality or state of being hatchable; also, the percentage of eggs that hatch under incubation.
shell membranes
Meat products; Poultry
The two membranes attached to the inner eggshell. They normally separate at the large end of the egg to form the air cell.
epizootic
Meat products; Poultry
epidemic among chickens or other animals (similar to the word 'epidemic' pertaining to humans).
