Poultry

• Poultry - birds that are utilized as food, which includes chicken, turkey, ducks, pigeon, and quails. - includes a wide variety of bird types that humans raise for food in the form of meat and egg
• CHICKEN


  The most common and popular poultry
• CHICKEN

  • It is raised as a valuable source of meat and eggs
• DUCK


  Many different varieties of duck are raised primarily for meat, but some are also raised for their eggs
• GOOSE


  Domesticated varieties of geese are kept and raised for meat and eggs
• TURKEY


  • It is another popular poultry
• QUAIL


  • The common larger species of quail are raised for meat and eggs
  • Quail meat and eggs are considered a delicacy
• PIGEON


  • It is both raised for its meat and hunted for food and sport
  • Young domesticated pigeons usually under 4 wks. old and their meat are termed as SQUAB
• Are considered a delicacy

  Quail meat and eggs
• Usually under 4 wks. old

  Young domesticated pigeons
• Poultry is classified into 2:

  WHITE MEAT POULTRY AND DARK MEAT POULTRY.
• BROILER (POUSSIN)

  • very small young chicken
  • 400 to 700 grams
• FRYER

  • known as "griller"
  • hen or a cock
  • 800 to 1,300 grams
• ROASTER

  • a specially raised hen
  • 1,800 grams.
• CAPON

  • castrated cock
  • specially fed poultry known as "cockerel" in France
  • 3 kilograms.
• FOWL

  • fully- grown hen, which is less tender than a fryer
  • butchered after laying eggs
  • 1.8 kilograms.
• When buying poultry these are two main factors to be considered: COLOR and ODOR.