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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calcar

Meat products; Poultry

The bone protruding from a mature male bird's shank that is surrounded by a horny layer that together, make up the spur.

opportunistic

Meat products; Poultry

An organism that is non-infectious to healthy birds; infectious only to birds with reduced resistance from some other cause (stress).

calcium grit

Meat products; Poultry

Ground oyster (or other shellfish) shell is often called "grit". It is fed to chickens and digested to replenish the calcium used by the chicken to produce egg shells. True grit is Sand and small ...

This term refers to products from animals that have been raised without the use of hormones, antibiotics or genetic engineering, and which has not been irradiated. Vaccines and medicines are allowed ...