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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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egg tooth
Meat products; Poultry
A tiny, sharp, horny projection on the end of the chick's upper beak used by the chick to peck holes in (pip) the shell. Also known as chick tooth.
secondaries
Meat products; Poultry
The large wing feathers closest to the body, visible when the wing is folded or extended.
electrolytes
Meat products; Poultry
Natural chemicals in the blood needed by body cells to maintain balance; also, a mineral solution used to treat dehydration.
secondary infection
Meat products; Poultry
A disease that invades after a bird's immune defenses have been weakened by some other disease.
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