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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small farm

Meat products; Poultry

Farm that earns no more than $250,000 per year and on which the day-to-day labor and management is provided by the farmer and/or farm family that owns or leases the production or production ...

exudative diathesis

Meat products; Poultry

Accumulation of fluid (exudate) under the skin or around the heart.

smut

Meat products; Poultry

Black feathers are uncharacteristic for a breed such as black body feathers on a Rhode Island Red.

face

Meat products; Poultry

skin around and below the eyes.

snood

Meat products; Poultry

Fleshy appendage on the face of a turkey that hangs down alongside the beak.

factory farm

Meat products; Poultry

A large-scale industrial site where many animals (generally chickens, turkeys, cattle, or pigs) are confined and treated with hormones and antibiotics to maximize growth and prevent disease. The ...