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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
ova
Meat products; Poultry
Round bodies (yolks) attached to the ovary. These drop into the oviduct and become yolk of the egg.
ovary
Meat products; Poultry
The organ of the female which holds the true eggs and produces the yolks on which the true eggs are located.
oviduct
Meat products; Poultry
The tubular organ of the female birds that puts the albumen, shell membranes, and the shell of the avian egg around the yolk.
carrier
Meat products; Poultry
An apparently healthy individual that transmits disease to other individuals. Also, a container used to transport chickens.
