§ 27002 Poultry Definition For Food

• •Poultry means birds that people raise to eat.
• •Chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese are all poultry.
• •Only birds that are farmed for food count as poultry.

You raise chickens in your backyard for eggs and meat.

Those chickens are considered poultry because they are domesticated birds used for human food.