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POULTRY: Definitions of Use Class | AVES

CHICKENS
Eggs
Includes all developmental stages from in ovo until hatching.
Chicks
Chickens from day of hatch until they are able to survive in ambient temperature (no longer brooded).
Broiler Chickens
Chickens grown to a marketable weight and intended for meat production. Includes Rock Cornish game hen or Cornish game hen, broiler or fryer, roaster or roasting chicken, and capon.
Replacement Chickens
Female chickens intended to become laying hens (replacement layers) and male and female chickens intended to become breeding chickens (breeder replacement).
Laying Hens
Hens that produce non-fertilzed eggs for human consumption.
Breeder Chickens
Sexually mature male or female chickens intended for the production of fertile eggs for hatching into broilers, broiler breeder replacements, laying hen replacements, or layer breeder replacements.
These eggs are NOT intended for human consumption.

 

TURKEYS
Turkeys are commonly raised primarily to produce meat for human consumption or to produce offspring that will produce meat for human consumption, not eggs.
Eggs
Includes all developmental stages from in ovo until hatching.
Poults
Turkeys from day of hatch until they are able to survive in ambient temperature (no longer brooded).
Growing Turkeys
Turkeys grown to a marketable weight, intended for meat purposes. Includes fryer-roaster, young turkey, and yearling turkey.
Replacement Turkeys
Turkeys intended to become breeding turkeys.
Breeding Turkeys
Sexually mature male or female turkeys, intended for the production of fertile eggs for hatching into growing turkeys or breeder replacement turkeys.

Last updated Mar 22, 2023