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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.

Contributors in Poultry

Poultry

pellets

Meat products; Poultry

see Layer Ration

chromosome

Meat products; Poultry

Microscopic cell containing the genes that carry hereditary determination.

pen

Meat products; Poultry

A group of chickens entered into a show and judged together; also, a group of chickens housed together for breeding purposes.

chronic

Meat products; Poultry

Description of a disease having long duration measured in days, months, or even years and being somewhat resistant to treatment; opposite of Acute.

pendulous crop

Meat products; Poultry

Crop that is usually impacted and enlarged and hangs down in an abnormal manner.

peracute

Meat products; Poultry

Having extremely severe and short duration, measured in minutes or hours.

classification

Meat products; Poultry

The grouping of purebred chickens according to their place of origin, such as "American" or "Mediterranean".

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