What does poultry mean? Poultry collectively describes raising domesticated birds.
Poultry birds can be categorized under meat, egg laying and game birds husbandry.
The most popular type of poultry is chicken production.
The poultry industry is wide and feeds the largest part of the country's population.
Chicken meat producers use the chicken breed called broilers.
Broilers are purposely designed to produce more meat in the shortest time.
There is also a large market population focused on egg production.
Egg producers rely on chicken layers. These birds are designed to produce eggs in large quantity.
We also have the dual purpose birds, mostly kept at home as pets.
The Orpington is a British breed of chicken.