Poultry

Poultry

Poultry is a category of domestic birds kept and raised for the purpose of collecting eggs or killing and using their meat.

Industry: Meat products

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infectious

Meat products; Poultry

Capable of invading living tissue and multiplying therein causing disease.

viremic

Meat products; Poultry

Of or pertaining to a virus in the blood.

bedding

Meat products; Poultry

Material scattered on the floor of a chicken coop to absorb moisture and manure. Commonly used are straw, hay, pine or other wood shavings or shredded paper, etc. Also called 'litter'.

magnum

Meat products; Poultry

The section of the oviduct next to the infundibulum; the area in which the thick white is deposited and the shape is formed.

A sac connected to the embryo's abdomen making respiration by the embryo possible; it also stores excretions, absorbs albumen used for food by the embryo, and absorbs calcium from the egg shell for ...