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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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stress

Meat products; Poultry

Any physical or mental tension that reduces resistance to disease.

fowl

Meat products; Poultry

Domesticated birds raised for food; also, a stewing hen.

stub

Meat products; Poultry

Down on the shank or toe of a clean-legged chicken.

fowl pox

Meat products; Poultry

Highly contagious disease of poultry spread by mosquitos.

subclinical

Meat products; Poultry

An inapparent infection for which signs or symptoms can be detected only through laboratory analysis.

free range

Meat products; Poultry

Free Range (or labeling of similar import) means eggs produced from laying chickens that are "cage free" or have access to a suitable outdoors environment.

subcutaneous

Meat products; Poultry

Directly beneath the skin.

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