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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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standard
Meat products; Poultry
The description of an ideal specimen for a breed; also, a chicken that conforms to the description of its breed in the American Standard of Perfection. Sometimes erroneously used to refer to large ...
fertilization
Meat products; Poultry
The act or process of making or becoming fertile; the union of a male cell with a female cell.
started pullets
Meat products; Poultry
Female chickens that are partially grown, usually to point of lay that is about 20 weeks of age, by specialized growers for sale to egg farmers.
