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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footcandle

Meat products; Poultry

The density of light striking each and every point on a segment of the inside surface of an imaginary one foot radius sphere with a one candlepower source at the center.

straight-run chicks

Meat products; Poultry

Day-old chicks that have not been separated according to sexes.

forage

Meat products; Poultry

To search for naturally occurring nourishment.

strain

Meat products; Poultry

A group of birds within a variety that has been bred by one person or firm for some time and has more or less uniform characteristics and capabilities.

Part of a hen's natural reproductive cycle. After laying eggs for about a year, a hen loses her feathers and rests for a few weeks as new feathers grow in. This is called molting, or a molt, and it ...