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Pinfeathers

A feather not fully developed that is either protruding or non-protruding, that is not removed will result in a lower quality grade.

Yearling tom/hen turkey

A fully mature male or female turkey (usually under 15 months of age) that is reasonably tender-meated and with somewhat smooth textured skin.

Spent hen

A laying hen that has been culled from the laying flock.

Stewing hen

A mature female chicken usually more than 10 months of age which is less tender and has a non-flexible breastbone tip. Sometime referred to as a spent hen.

Cock or Rooster

A mature male chicken with coarse skin, toughened and darkened meat, and hardened breastbone tip.

Debraining

A process of rendering poultry senseless at the time slaughter.

Capon

A surgically unsexed male chicken under 8 months of age that is tender-meated with soft pliable, smooth textured skin.

Broiler or fryer

A young chicken (usually 6-8 weeks of age) , either sex that is tender-meated with soft, pliable, smooth-textured skin and flexible breast-bone cartilage. The weight range for a broiler and fryer carcass is 3 - 4.5 pounds.

Cornish game hen

A young immature chicken usually five to seven weeks of age weighing not more than two pounds ready-to-cook weight. These birds are a cross between a Cornish chicken and another breed of chicken.

Young tom/hen turkey

A young male/female turkey (usually 5 - 7 months of age) that is tender-meated with soft, pliable, smooth-textured skin and breast-bone cartilage that is somewhat less flexible than a fryer roaster turkey.

Stag

An animal that was castrated after developing definite masculine characteristics.

Liquid eggs

Egg products that have been removed from the shell and packaged in bulk containers for ease in usage. The part of the egg can be separated into yolk and whites or sold as whole egg.

Shell eggs

Egg that are sold in the retail market that are still in the shell.

Powdered eggs

Eggs that have had the moisture removed and ground into a powder.

Cracked eggs

Eggs that may have some imperfection and are used in further processing of egg products.

Roaster

Roaster chicken - A young chicken (usually 3- 5 months of age) of either sex, that is tender-meated with soft, pliable, smooth-textured skin and breast-bone cartilage that is somewhat less flexible than that of a broiler or fryer.

Scalding

The process of dripping a hog or chicken in hor water to loosen the hair or feathers respectively.

Picking

The process of removing feather from poultry during slaughter.

Singeing

The process of removing hair on a hog carcass by burning it off.

Fleshing

The thickness of the muscling covering over the back, breast, drumstick, and thigh of a chicken carcass. Considered in poultry grading