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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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prolapsed vent
Meat products; Poultry
damaged vent caused by laying on oversized egg. A portion of the oviduct extends outside the vent. Also called "prolapsed oviduct", "blowout" or "ickout".
cuticle
Meat products; Poultry
A secretion of the uterus consisting mainly of protein that serves to partially seal the pores in the egg's shell and acts as a lubricant when the egg is laid; commonly called the bloom.
protective synergism
Meat products; Poultry
Phenomenon by which two vaccines confer greater protection than the sum of their individual effects.
protein
Meat products; Poultry
one of a group of nitrogenous compounds commonly known as amino acids.
protozoan
Meat products; Poultry
A single-celled microscopic animal that may be either parasitic or beneficial; plural: protozoa.
