poultry

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  • poultry refers to several finds of fowl that are used as food and the term includes chicken, turkey, duck, pigeon, and quail
  • poultry are usually domesticated raise mainly for meat and eggs
  • birds such as smites that are hunted for food are games
  • the word poultry comes from the French/roman word poule
  • poultry the latin word pullus which means small animal
  • chicken
    >meat
    >eggs
  • duck
    >meat
    >eggs
    .feathers
  • turkey
    >meat
    >eggs
  • goose
    >meat
    >eggs
    >feathers
  • quail
    >meat
    >eggs
  • pigeon
    >meat
    >eggs
  • guinea fowl
    >meat
  • pheasant
    >meat
  • broiler or fryer is young chicken, usually 9-12 weeks of age
  • roaster is usually 5-6 mths of age
  • capon is surgically desexed male chicken usually under 8mths of age
  • stag is male chicken usually under 10 months of age, with coarse skin, with somewhat toughere and darkened flesh
  • hen or stewing chicken is mature female chicken is usually more than 10 mths old of age
  • cock or rooster is mature male chicken with coarse skin, toughened and darkened meat and hardened breast bone tip
  • jumbo broiler is large chicken about 4kg dressed weight which are on sale specially during the Christmas season
  • peking duck is a breed of duck originated from china and is noted for its tender and flavprful meat
  • duck or itik is available and popular in many towns of rizal as fried itik
  • squab is a young immature pigeon of either sex and fried
  • live poultry
    >it has clear eyes
    >a young chicken has fine and soft
    >feet if its cold, the feet are thick and scaly
    >the bone at the tip of the breast is soft in younger and thick in older one
    >small feathers indicate that the chicken is young
  • whole poultry
    >these are slaughtered birds that have been bled and defeathered
    >their head, feet and viscera are still intact
    >they are clean and well fleshed
    >they moderate fat covering
    >they are free from pin feathers and show no cuts, scars or missing skin
  • dressed poultry
    >these are slaughtered birds that have been bled, defeathered and the visceral organs are removed
    >the skin is smooths and yellow in color
    >the breast is plump
    >the thighs are well-developed
    >it has no objectionable color
    >it is heavy and the skin is not watery
  • ready-to-cook is dressed birds may cut up and marinated or season
  • poultry parts have several parts of a single poultry part are usully packed in one carton, wrapped and chilled or frozen
  • poultry parts are divided intp dark meat, white meat, and giblets
  • dark meat
    >drumsticks
    >thigh
    >wings
    >neck
    >back
    >rib cage
  • white meat
    >breast
  • giblets
    >gizzard
    >heart