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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

ovum

Meat products; Poultry

The round female germ cells attached to the ovary; plural form is ova. They are releases and drop into the oviduct and become the egg yolk.

cauterize

Meat products; Poultry

To use a hot iron to burn, sear or destroy tissue.

papilla

Meat products; Poultry

The projection on the shank of a bird that eventually develops and grows into a spur in male birds.

cecal droppings

Meat products; Poultry

Branching off between the small & large intestine are two blind pouches, called the ceca that have no known function. The ceca empty their contents two or three times a day, producing dark, pasty ...

parasite

Meat products; Poultry

An organism that lives on or inside a host animal and derives food or protection from the host without giving anything in return.

cecum

Meat products; Poultry

A blind pouch at the juncture of the small and large intestine. (resembles the human appendix); Plural: ceca.

parental immunity

Meat products; Poultry

Resistance to disease passed from breeders to their offspring through the egg.

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