What is the difference between fowl and poultry?
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They are the same in my book. Poultry is fowl.
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They are generally the same, being nouns for birds that are used for their flesh and/or eggs. Chickens, turkeys and wild ducks are fowl; eagles and hummingbirds are not. Fowl derives from Old English 'fugol', from Germanic. Poultry is Middle English from the Old French ' pouletrie.' Fowl can encompass both wild (game) and domesticated birds, while poultry is used almost exclusively to describe the domesticated birds. --- If you need a source, the Oxford Dictionary, Concise, 9th edition. If you cannot look it up for yourself or need a quick link in every answer so that you don't have to do any research for yourself, you deserve every wrong answer you put your faith in. Just because something is on the Internet doesn't mean it is true.
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well though correct in alot of what the other person is saying ive notice one big difference in the 2 and thats body type after the birds been plucked ((you can find immages and such on the web)) the structure is verry different for starter poultry ((chickens turkey)) you can clearly see the thigh seperated from the breast and legg however on the body of a fowl (duck/goose) there breast thigh and legg sorta looks like it is 1 full unity with no seperation also fowl tend to be waterbird the exception is the peacock to my knowldge there not waterbirds but could be wrong also 1 other difference ive never seen a fowl that had a great portion of white meat most fowls are 80-100% all dark meat i hope that helps some
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