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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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hybrid
Meat products; Poultry
The offspring of a hen and rooster of different breeds, each of which might themselves be crossbred; often erroneously applied to the offspring of a hen and rooster of different strains within a ...
bantam
Meat products; Poultry
A small miniature chicken, usually one-fourth to one-fifth the size of regular chickens; frequently called "bantie" or "banty". Most, but not all, bantams are the likeness of a larger variety of ...
zoning
Meat products; Poultry
Laws regulating or restricting the use of land for a particular purpose such as raising chickens.
vector
Meat products; Poultry
A living thing that carries disease organisms within its body from one source to another (examples: mosquitos, ticks, flies).
