SC - Chicken names

LrdRas at aol.com LrdRas at aol.com
Fri Sep 15 22:06:44 PDT 2000


In a message dated 9/14/00 10:32:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, harper at idt.net 
writes:

<< Is there a specific term for a young male chicken?  The male equivalent 
 of "pullet"?
  >>

Yes.

cock*er*el (noun)
[Middle English cokerelle, from Middle French dialect kokerel, diminutive of 
Old French coc]
First appeared 15th Century
 : a young male of the domestic fowl (Gallus gallus)

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