Broad Breasted White

The Broad Breasted White is a domestic turkey variety selected for rapid growth, a large breast, and white plumage. It is widely raised for meat production.

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Domestic turkey: A domesticated form of the wild turkey, bred in several varieties for meat and other uses. The Broad Breasted White is one variety of domestic turkey.
Growth rate: The speed at which an organism gains body mass or increases in size. Rapid growth is a defining result of selection in this variety.
Intensive animal farming: Livestock production that keeps many animals in concentrated facilities with managed feeding and housing. Commercial flocks commonly use controlled housing and feeding to produce meat at scale.
Broad Breasted Bronze: A broad-breasted domestic turkey variety with bronze-colored plumage, developed for meat production. It shares a broad-breasted build but has dark plumage rather than white.
Turkey: A large bird in the genus Meleagris, native to North America. The domestic bird belongs to the turkey lineage.
Breast meat: The edible pectoral muscles of a bird, commonly sold as a meat cut. Its unusually large breast supplies much of its commercial value.
Poultry farming: The raising of domesticated birds for meat, eggs, or other products. It is the production system in which this turkey variety is chiefly used.
Heritage turkey: A traditional domestic turkey type that retains slower growth and the ability to reproduce naturally. Heritage types contrast with the specialized growth and breeding traits of this variety.
Selective breeding: The practice of breeding organisms with chosen traits to increase those traits in later generations. Selection produced its rapid growth, large breast, and white feathers.
Poultry genetics: The study and application of heredity in domesticated birds raised for production. Genetic selection shapes the variety’s growth and body conformation.