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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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Poultry
blood-spot
Meat products; Poultry
Tiny red spot in a freshly laid egg caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the hen's ovary usually during ovulation.
bloom
Meat products; Poultry
The moist protective coating on a freshly laid egg that that helps keep bacteria out of it. It dries so fast you rarely see it; also, the peak condition of an exhibition bird.
metabolic disease
Meat products; Poultry
A Disease involving a breakdown in the body's physical or chemical processes.
metabolism
Meat products; Poultry
All the physical and chemical processes that produce and maintain a living body.