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Poultry is the class of domesticated fowl ( birds) used for food or for their eggs. These most typically are members of the orders Galliformes (such as chickens and turkeys), and Anseriformes ( waterfowl such as ducks and geese). The word poultry is often used to refer to the flesh of these birds.
In a more general sense, the word poultry may refer to the flesh of other birds, such as pigeons or doves, or gameGame is any animal hunted for food. The type and range of animals hunted for food varies in different parts of the world. This will be influenced by climate, animal diversity, local taste and locally accepted view about what can, or can not, be legitimates like pheasantIthaginis Catreus Rheinartia Crossoptilon Lophura Argusianus Pucrasia Syrmaticus Chrysolophus Phasianus † See also partridge, quail Pheasants are a group of large birds from the order Galliformes. In some countries they are hunted as game. They ares.
| Bird | Diet | Wild ancestor | Domestication | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| chicken | grainThe word grain has a great many meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. For examples: a grain of sand or salt; see grain size for granule a grain is a type of simple dry fruit technically called a caryopsis . In agriculture, such cr, grubGrub or GRUB can mean: a slang term for food a beetle larva that resembles a worm the GNU project's Gr and U nified B ootloader software: see GRUB a distributed commercial search engine: see Grub distributed web-crawling project a number of places in Swits, insectSubclass Apterygota Symphypleona globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Palaeodictyoptera extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata ( dragonfls, plantGreen algae land plants (embryophytes non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta liverworts Anthocerophyta hornworts Bryophyta mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta clubmosses Equisetophyta horsetails Pteridophyta "true"s, rodentMany, see text The order Rodentia is the most numerous of all the branches on the mammal family tree. Currently there are, depending on the authority consulted, between 2000 and 3000 species of rodent—roughly half of all mammal species. Rodents are founds, seedThis writeup is about biological seeds; for the Buddhist metaphor, see bija. A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. The importance of the seed relative to more primitive forms of reproduction and dispersal is attested to by the sus | red junglefowl | China, c. 3000 BC | meat, eggs |
| duck | fish, grain, insects, plants | ? | ? | meat, feathers, eggs |
| ostrich | insects, plants, seeds | wild ostrich | Africa | meat, feathers, labour |
| turkey | grain, insects, plants | wild turkey | ? | meat |
Poultry is also the name of a street in the City of London, UK where poultry used to be sold. See Cheapside.