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Poultry

Meaning in veterinary medicine, with examples

/ˈpəʊltri/nounCore term

In veterinary medicine, poultry means: Birds kept for meat or eggs, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese. The word also means the meat of these birds.

In Turkish: kanatlı hayvanlar, kümes hayvanları, kanatlılar

How it is used

A plural or uncountable noun: poultry are kept in flocks, in houses or sheds. Poultry vets work mainly at flock level on vaccination, biosecurity and disease monitoring, for example for avian influenza.

Example sentences

  1. Poultry flocks were kept indoors during the avian influenza outbreak.

  2. She's a poultry vet working with broiler and layer farms.

Common collocations

  • poultry farm
  • poultry flock
  • poultry vet
  • poultry industry
  • poultry house
  • livestockAnimals kept on farms to produce meat, milk, eggs, wool or other products, such as cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry.
  • biosecurityThe set of measures used to stop infectious diseases from getting into a farm, clinic or country and from spreading inside it.
  • notifiable diseaseA disease that, by law, must be reported to the government veterinary authorities as soon as it is suspected, even before it is confirmed.
  • vaccinationGiving an animal a vaccine, usually by injection or into the nose, to train its immune system to protect it against a specific infectious disease.

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