SC - Chicken names
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Thu Sep 14 19:59:31 PDT 2000
Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
>
> Is there a specific term for a young male chicken? The male equivalent
> of "pullet"?
Cockerel in English, I believe, for male chickens less than a year old.
In French (or so sez Larousse) the term "poularde" is sometimes applied
to male or female chickens of less than a certain age and weight (a year
and 1.8 kilos? I forget), but strictly speaking a poularde is female.
Adamantius
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