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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host

Meat products; Poultry

A bird (or other animal) in or on which an infectious agent lives.

vaccine

Meat products; Poultry

Product made from disease-causing organisms and used to produce immunity.

keet

Meat products; Poultry

A Guinea Fowl chick.

xanthophylls

Meat products; Poultry

The typical yellow pigments of leaves, grasses and green plants that, once ingested by poultry, tend to darken their egg yolks. Many people attribute the dark yolks of "free range" eggs to the ...

hover

Meat products; Poultry

Canopy used on brooder stoves to hold heat near the floor when brooding young stock.

vagina

Meat products; Poultry

The section of the oviduct next to the uterus in which the cuticle is deposited on the shell and the eggs are turned completely around on its long axis so that the large end is laid first.