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  • poultry - a group of domestic fowl used as food
  • poultry - one of the most popular food items all over the world
  • poultry is the highest source if protein
  • games - birds that are hunted and used as food
  • chicken is the most consumed of all poultry
  • poultry farming - one of the more profitable businesses just like livestock
  • poultry has 22.6% protein, 76.3% water, and traces of fats, vitamins, and minerals
  • dark muscles - found in those parts which are always used (legs, thighs, wings, neck, and rib cage)
  • white muscles - found manly in the breast
  • steps in slaughtering a chicken
    • slaughtering and bleeding
    • scalding
    • defeathering
    • eviscerations
  • before slaughtering, the chicken is not fed one day
  • slaughtering - performed by slitting the jugular vein in the chickens throat with a shark knife. the blood flows from the vein is caught in the bowl for about 2 to 3 minutes
  • scalding - the bled chicken is dropped in the hot water for 30 to 60 seconds depending on the size of the bird.
  • defeathering - picking the big feathers and rubbing on the body to remove tiny feathers.
  • eviscerations - slitting the abdominal cavity, the entrails are removed.
  • market forms of poultry
    • live poultry
    • whole poultry
    • dressed poultry
    • drawn poultry
    • poultry cuts
    • frozen
    • ready-to-cook
    • precooked
  • whole poultry - all parts still intact but not alive
  • dressed poultry - slaughtered bird that have been bled and defeathered
  • drawn poultry - dressed poultry in which the internal organs have been removed and cleaned
  • poultry cuts - parts of chicken that are cut and packed then sold frozen or fresh
  • frozen - whole or chicken parts that are packed and frozen
  • ready-to-cook - sold whole, split in halves, quartered without backbone
  • precooked - breaded chiken nuggets, breaded chicken fillet, chicken roll,
  • classes of poultry
    • broiler
    • roaster
    • capon
    • hen or stewing chicken
    • stag
    • rooster
    • jumbo broiler
  • broiler - also called as fryer; nine to 12 weeks of age
  • roaster -3-5 months of age
  • capon - male chicken that has been desized surgically, under 8 months old
  • hen or stwing chicken - mature female chickjne more than 10 months old
  • stag - male chicken under 10 months old
  • rooster - also known as cock; mature male chicken
  • jumbo broiler - extra-large broilers about 4 kilos in weight