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)
Ras
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