Frontpage » Tag » poultry

News tagged with poultry

GM chickens that don't transmit bird flu developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chickens genetically modified to prevent them spreading bird flu have been produced by researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Robot uses 3-D imaging and sensor-based cutting technology to debone poultry

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a prototype system that uses advanced imaging technology and a robotic cutting arm to automatically debone chicken and ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Deadly bird parasite evolves at exceptionally fast rate

A new study of a devastating bird disease that spread from poultry to house finches in the mid-1990s reveals that the bacteria responsible for the disease evolves at an exceptionally fast rate. What's more, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists solve puzzle of chickens that are half male and half female

A puzzle that has baffled scientists for centuries - why some birds appear to be male on one side of the body and female on the other - has been solved by researchers.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Animals now picking up bugs from people, study shows

Globalisation and industrialisation are causing diseases to spread from humans to animals, a study has shown.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Bird flu virus remains infectious up to 600 days in municipal landfills

Amid concerns about a pandemic of swine flu, researchers from Nebraska report for the first time that poultry carcasses infected with another threat — the 'bird flu' virus — can remain infectious in municipal ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bird flu found in Tibet: state media

Chinese officials had confirmed the outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu among poultry in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, state media reported Sunday, quoting the ministry of agriculture.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

CDC: US food poisoning cases held steady in 2008

(AP) -- Americans didn't suffer more food poisoning last year despite high-profile outbreaks involving peppers, peanut butter and other foods, according to a government report released Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Flies may spread drug-resistant bacteria from poultry operations

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found evidence that houseflies collected near broiler poultry operations may contribute to the dispersion of drug-resistant bacteria and thus increase the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bird vocalization research could improve poultry production, lower costs

Chickens can’t speak, but they can definitely make themselves heard. Most people who have visited a poultry farm will recall chicken vocalization – the technical term for clucking and squawking – ...

Biology / Other

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Evidence of banned antibiotics in poultry products found

In a joint study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Arizona State University found evidence suggesting that a class of antibiotics previously banned by the U.S. government for poultry ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Triple threat: One bacterium, three plasmids

Researchers from Australia found something completely new while conducting a genetic study of the pathogenesis of an enteric disease in birds. They report what is believed to be the first bacterial strain to carry three closely ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bird flu batters South African ostrich farms

Once filled with hundreds of ostriches, the fields of the Klein Karoo are strangely empty.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cooling system may build eggs' natural defenses against salmonella

(PhysOrg.com) -- Once eggs are laid, their natural resistance to pathogens begins to wear down, but a Purdue University scientist believes he knows how to rearm those defenses.

Biology / Other

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pfizer will stop selling poultry-pumping drug: US

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will voluntarily suspend US sales of a poultry-pumping additive after studies showed it can leave traces of arsenic in chicken livers, the US government said on Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Poultry

Poultry is the category of domesticated birds which people keep for the purpose of collecting their eggs, or kill for their meat and/or feathers. These most typically are members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails and turkeys) and the family Anatidae (in order Anseriformes), commonly known as "waterfowl" (e.g. domestic ducks and domestic geese). Poultry also include other birds which are killed for their meat, such as pigeons or doves or birds considered to be game, like pheasants. The term also refers to the flesh of such birds.

Examples of types of poultry are as follows.

For more information about Poultry, read the full article at Wikipedia.
This text uses material from Wikipedia and is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.