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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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Poultry

starve-out

Meat products; Poultry

The failure of chicks to eat.

flight feathers

Meat products; Poultry

Primary feathers of the wing, sometimes used to denote the primaries and secondaries.

steal

Meat products; Poultry

A hen's instinctive habit of hiding her eggs.

flock

Meat products; Poultry

A group of chickens living together.

stewing chicken

Meat products; Poultry

A mature female chicken, usually more than 10 months of age; that requires moist, pressurized, or extended cooking; also called hen or fowl.

fluff

Meat products; Poultry

Downy feathers around the vent of a fowl.

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