A report on Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers.
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Domestic turkey
3 linksLarge fowl, one of the two species in the genus Meleagris and the same species as the wild turkey.
Large fowl, one of the two species in the genus Meleagris and the same species as the wild turkey.
The domestic turkey is a popular form of poultry, and it is raised throughout temperate parts of the world, partially because industrialized farming has made it very cheap for the amount of meat it produces.
Bird
2 linksBirds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Many species of birds are economically important as food for human consumption and raw material in manufacturing, with domesticated and undomesticated birds being important sources of eggs, meat, and feathers.
Meat
2 linksAnimal flesh that is eaten as food.
Animal flesh that is eaten as food.
Meat is sometimes also used in a more restrictive sense to mean the flesh of mammalian species (pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, etc.) raised and prepared for human consumption, to the exclusion of fish, other seafood, insects, poultry, or other animals.
Feather pecking
3 linksFeather pecking is a behavioural problem that occurs most frequently amongst domestic hens reared for egg production, although it does occur in other poultry such as pheasants, turkeys, ducks, broiler chickens and is sometimes seen in farmed ostriches.
Debeaking
3 linksDebeaking, beak trimming (also spelt beak-trimming ), or beak conditioning is the partial removal of the beak of poultry, especially layer hens and turkeys although it may also be performed on quail and ducks.
Poultry farming
2 linksPoultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food.
Fowl
2 linksFowl are birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes).
Fowl are birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes).
As opposed to "fowl", "poultry" is a term for any kind of domesticated bird or bird captive-raised for meat, eggs, or feathers; ostriches, for example, are sometimes kept as poultry, but are neither gamefowl nor waterfowl.
Pollotarianism
1 linksPollotarianism is the practice of adhering to a diet that incorporates poultry as the only source of meat in an otherwise vegetarian diet.
Egg incubation
1 linksProcess by which an egg, of oviparous animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release.
Process by which an egg, of oviparous animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release.
Especially in poultry, the act of sitting on eggs to incubate them is called brooding.