What is Poultry Farming? 28-02-2019, by , 7 Comments 5 Views What do you mean by Poultry? The name poultry stands for a wide variety of domesticated birds like chicken (domestic fowl), duck, geese, quail, turkey, pigeon, guinea fowl, pheasants, emu, ostrich etc. In India, the term ‘poultry’ is used mainly to mean chicken as they are more commonly found and are of great importance to us for meat and eggs. Information about Poultry Farming? Poultry farming is the large scale rearing of these domesticated birds for the purpose of commercial production for eggs and meat. Chicken as well as ducks are used by Indians for commercial production of meat and eggs while turkey, guinea fowl, geese and others are maintained for meat. Poultry farming is perhaps the fastest growing segment in agricultural sector in India. The production of eggs and meat has been growing at the rate of 8 to 10% per annum. Chicken accounts for more than 90% of poultry farming in India. Poultry Products: The most common poultry products are poultry meat, dressed chicken, chilled and frozen products, chicken cut parts, egg powder, frozen egg yolk, processed food made of chicken meat, sausages etc. Click to know about benefits of poultry farming.