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2. Aquaponics - Wikipedia

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   Aquaponics is a food production system that couples aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, crayfish, snails or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) whereby the nutrient-rich aquaculture water is fed to hydroponically grown plants.

3. Poultry litter - Wikipedia

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   In agriculture, poultry litter or broiler litter is a mixture of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and material used as bedding in poultry operations. This term is also used to refer to unused bedding materials. Poultry litter is used in confinement buildings used for raising broilers, turkeys and other birds.

4. Battery cage - Wikipedia

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   Flocks are sometimes force moulted, rather than being slaughtered, to reinvigorate egg-laying. This involves complete withdrawal of food (and sometimes water) for seven to fourteen days [62] or sufficiently long to cause a body weight loss of 25 to 35 percent. [63] This stimulates the hen to lose her feathers, but also reinvigorates egg-production.

5. Foam depopulation - Wikipedia

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   Foam depopulation was developed in 2006 in response to a 2004 outbreak of H7N2. [8] It received conditional approval the same year in the US by the USDA-APHIS. [9]In the 2015 H5N2 outbreak in the US, foaming was the primary method used to kill poultry en masse with it employed at 66% of locations. [10]

6. Poultry farming - Wikipedia

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   Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers. More than 60 billion chickens are killed for consumption annually.

7. Plumping - Wikipedia

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   Plumped chicken commonly contains 15% of its total weight in saltwater, but in some cases can contain as much as 30%. [1] Since the price of chicken is based on weight, opponents of the practice estimate that shoppers could be paying up to an additional $1.70 per package for added saltwater, [1] with the total annual cost to U.S. families estimated to be $2 billion in added weight charges.