1.   Another company whose acquisition shows promise, Davidson said, is Tyson Foods, the poultry company based in Springdale, Ark.

2.   Advanced Cell Technology, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avian Farms, a Maine poultry genetics company, is also working on cloning pigs, Stice said.

3.   Advanced Cell Technology is a subsidiary of Waterville, Maine-based Avian Farms Inc., a closely held poultry genetics company.

4.   Even then, some U.S. poultry companies were skeptical that the trade in chicken would really take off, Spivak recalled.

5.   Last January, the Labor Department accused Tyson and other poultry companies of cheating workers out of thousands of hours of wages.

6.   Most poultry companies can expect at least one quarter -- and maybe two -- of lower earnings.

7.   Poultry companies are seeing booming demand from overseas, as Russia, China and other fast-growing countries improve their standards of living.

8.   Poultry companies benefitted from the barrage of bad publicity for the beef industry.

9.   Sinitsyn supports his ostrich ranch with a large poultry company, and it will take a year and a half before the ostriches are profitable.

10.   The financial benefits are significant for ACT, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avian Farms, a Maine poultry company.