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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

stigma

Meat products; Poultry

The suture line or non-vascular area where the follicle ruptures when the mature ovum is dropped.

fluke

Meat products; Poultry

Trematode flatworm parasite.

still-air incubator

Meat products; Poultry

A mechanical device for hatching fertile eggs that does NOT contain a fan to circulate warm air.

follicle

Meat products; Poultry

Thin highly vascular ovarian tissue containing the growing ovum.

straight run

Meat products; Poultry

New chicks that have not been sexed.

fomites

Meat products; Poultry

Inanimate objects such as shipping crates, feed sacks, clothing, and shoe soles that may harbor disease-causing organisms and may be either a vehicle or a reservoir of infection.

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