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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.

Contributors in Poultry

Poultry

endoparasite

Meat products; Poultry

Internal parasite.

set

Meat products; Poultry

To put eggs under a broody hen or in an incubator to hatch them.

enteric

Meat products; Poultry

Affecting the intestines.

setting

Meat products; Poultry

A group of hatching eggs in an incubator or under a hen; also, the incubation of eggs by a hen. (often incorrectly called "sitting").

enteritis

Meat products; Poultry

Inflammation of the intestine.

sex feathers

Meat products; Poultry

Hackle, Saddle and Tail feathers whose ends are pointed in males and rounded in females. (except in breeds in which the males are "hen-feathered" such as Sebrights).

enteropathogens

Meat products; Poultry

Microbes that cause enteritis.

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