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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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blastodisc
Meat products; Poultry
The tiny white spot on the surface of the yolk. It contains the single female cell. When the yolk enters the infundibulum, a sperm penetrates the blastodisc and fertilizes it. The blastodisc then ...
meat-spot
Meat products; Poultry
Tiny white, gray or brown speck in a freshly laid egg caused by a tiny piece of tissue that enters the egg during formation in the hen's oviduct.
bleaching
Meat products; Poultry
The fading of color from the beak, shanks, and vent of a yellow-skinned laying hen.
persistancy of lay
Meat products; Poultry
The ability of a hen to lay steadily over along period of time.
cloaca
Meat products; Poultry
The chamber just inside the vent or common opening in birds through which the digestive, excretory, and reproductive tracts come together.
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