All chickens are chickens!!They all hatch out as chicks.
Young males are cockerels, and become roosters, or cocks, at 1 year of age.
Young females are pullets. At 1 year of age they're called hens.
| Alektorophobia | The Fear of chickens. |
| Bantams | Miniature breed of chicken |
| Broody | A hen who has laid a clutch of eggs and is now sitting on them full time |
| Candle | To examine the contents of an intact egg with a strong light source. |
| Capon | A castrated male chicken used for meat. |
| Chick | A newly hatched chicken. |
| Chook (rhymes with "book") | Australian term for a hen, also applied to all chickens, as in "I've a flock of chooks." |
| Cockerel | A male chicken less than a year old. |
| Comb | The fleshy red protuberance on the top of a chicken's head |
| Egg | If you don't know, please don't buy any chickens! |
| Gizzard | An organ that contains grit for grinding up the grain and plant fiber a chicken eats. |
| Grit | Sand and small pebbles eaten by chickens and used by its gizzard to grind up grain and plant fiber. |
| Hen | A female chicken more than a year old. These are the ones that lay the eggs. |
| Hybrid | The offspring of a hen and rooster of different breeds, each of which might themselves be crossbred. |
| Incubation period | The time it takes for the egg to hatch, normally about 21 days, but also the time from exposure to a disease-causing agent until the first symptom appears. |
| Pecking order | The social rank of chickens. |
| Pullet | A female chicken less than a year old. |
| Purebred | The offspring of a hen and rooster of the same breed. |
| Rooster | A male chicken more than a year old. |
| Sex feather | A hackle, saddle, or tail feather that is rounded in a hen but usually pointed in a rooster (except in hen feathered breeds) |
| Wattles | The fleshy red things hanging under a chicken's beak |
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