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For example, the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 (P.L. 106–78, Title IX) defines livestock only as cattle, swine, and sheep, while the 1988 disaster assistance legislation defined the term as "cattle, sheep, goats, swine, poultry (including egg-producing poultry), equine animals used for food or in the production of food, fish used ...
The word "poultry" comes from Middle English pultry or pultrie, itself derived from Old French/Norman word pouletrie. [7] The term for an immature poultry, pullet, like its doublet poult, [8] comes from Middle English pulet and Old French polet, both from the Latin word pullus, meaning a young fowl or young animal.
Animals used as livestock are predominantly herbivorous, the main exceptions being the pig and the chicken which are omnivorous. The herbivores can be divided into "concentrate selectors" which selectively feed on seeds, fruits and highly nutritious young foliage, "grazers" which mainly feed on grass, and "intermediate feeders" which choose ...
meat, bait, animal feed, research Captive-bred 6b Other insects: American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) [189] date uncertain North America: meat, medicine, pets Captive-bred 6b Other insects: Flame jellyfish (Rhopilema esculentum) [190] date uncertain China: meat, medicine, pets Captive-bred 7c Other animals
The category is for various topics of raising livestock, i.e., domesticated animals, that may be kept or raised in pens, houses, pastures, or farms as part of an agricultural or farming operation, whether for commerce or private use.
In the poultry industry, a pullet is a sexually immature chicken less than 22 weeks of age. [11] Rooster: a fertile adult male chicken, especially in North America. Originated in the 18th century, possibly as a euphemism to avoid the sexual connotation of the word cock. [12] [13] [14] Yardbird: a chicken (southern United States, dialectal) [15]
The risk to the general public remains low, though livestock workers are at heightened risk, officials have said. Of the 61 identified people infected with bird flu across the U.S., more than half ...
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers. Subcategories This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total.