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fowl: see poultry poultry, domesticated fowl kept primarily for meat and eggs; including birds of the order Galliformes, e.g., the chicken, turkey, guinea fowl, pheasant, quail, and peacock; and natatorial (swimming) birds, e.g., the duck and goose.
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fowl
2. any other bird, esp any gallinaceous bird, that is used as food or hunted as game
3. an archaic word for any bird

fowl [fau̇l]
(agriculture)
A domestic cock or hen, especially an adult hen, such as among chickens or several other gallinaceous birds.


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Exposure to air kills many microbes, especially the anaerobic bacterium that causes botulism and the pathogen that causes fowl cholera, two diseases that periodically take a huge toll on waterfowl.
Applicability of molecular methods for the detection and differentiation of Pasteurella multocida strains involved in 2 separate fowl cholera outbreaks in a single poultry farm was investigated.
Some of the most common diseases that are spread as a result of bird droppings are Tuberculosis, Encephalitis, Meningitis, Chlamydiosis, Salmonellosis, Fowl Typhoid, Fowl Cholera, Newcastle Disease, Pullorum Disease, Spirochetosis, Streptococosis, and Q Fever.
 
 
 
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