Poultry

Poultry

Poultry is a category of domestic birds kept and raised for the purpose of collecting eggs or killing and using their meat.

Industry: Meat products

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breast

Meat products; Poultry

The forward part of the body between the neck and the keel bone.

breast blister

Meat products; Poultry

Enlarged discolored area or sore in the area of the keel bone.

Part of a hen's natural reproductive cycle. After laying eggs for about a year, a hen loses her feathers and rests for a few weeks as new feathers grow in. This is called molting, or a molt, and it ...

breed

Meat products; Poultry

A group of chickens within a class having a distinctive body shape and the same general features and weight. Also, pairing a rooster with a hen for the purpose of obtaining fertile eggs.