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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
incubator
Meat products; Poultry
An artificially heated container for hatching eggs. In a still-air incubator the air is not circulated mechanically. Forced-air incubators have a fan or fans to circulate the air.
vertical transmission
Meat products; Poultry
Transmitted from parent to offspring through hatching eggs.
lymphatic system
Meat products; Poultry
Circulating system that contains the immune system's white blood cells.
infection
Meat products; Poultry
The entry of an organism into a body and causing disease by developing or multiplying within.
beard
Meat products; Poultry
The feathers bunched under the beaks of such breeds as Antwerp Belgian, Faverolle, and Houdan, always found in association with 'muffs'.
