poultry

• 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