Poultry is the class of domesticated fowl (birds) used for food or for their eggs. These virtually all often come members of the orders Galliformes (such as chickens and turkeys), and Anseriformes (waterfowl such as ducks and geese).

A word poultry is typically wont to refer to the meat one birds. Within the further general feel, it will refer to the meat of more birds, like pigeons or doves, or game birds like pheasants.

Types of poultry

Cuts of poultry

a substantive area of a bird come the flight muscles on its chest, called breast meat, & a walking muscles on the first & 2nd segments of its legs, called a thigh & drumstick severally.

Within chickens, a flight muscles, non adapted for sustained apply, keep close at hand less oxygen-carrying myoglobin than the walk-to muscles, & come so lighter inside color. This is the distinction between "white meat" & "dark meat". Water bird come adapted for sustained flight, & their breast meat is dark.

Trivia
"Poultry" occurs as street in the City of London off of Cheapside where poultry used to exist as sold.

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