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- "Number of slaughtered poultry (including ostriches)" is the number of carcasses of animals whose meat is deemed fit for human consumption.
"Live weight" is the live weight of slaughtered poultry (including ostriches) before their slaughter, expressed as the empty body weight.
"Carcass weight" is the cold weight after slaughter and dressing of slaughtered poultry (including ostriches) whose meat is deemed fit for human consumption.
"Carcass" of poultry means:
the animal plucked and drawn, without head and feet and without neck, heart, liver and gizzard. (The carcass of poultry known as ‘65 % chicken’, or otherwise presented - included in the definition until 2024).
"Poultry" referes to:
domestic chickens (Gallus gallus L.), turkeys (Meleagris spp.), ducks (Anas spp. and Cairina moschata L.), geese (Anser anser domesticus L.), ostriches (Struthio camelus L.) and other poultry fowl not elsewhere classified, such as quails (Coturnix spp.), pheasants (Phasianus spp.), guineafowl (Numida meleagris domestica L.) and pigeons (Columbinae spp.). Birds raised in confinement for hunting purposes and not for meat/egg production are excluded; meat of these animals is presented as poultrymeat.
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