chicken

[Ju]

1. What are the differences among rooster, chick and chicken?
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Am I right ?

2. Plural of chick is chicks
3. Plural of chicken is chickens
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• Mother chicken is hen
• baby chicken is chicken or chick

4. Then how about father chicken?
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5. I heard someone described herself is a kind of person scared of cold weather saying as I am a chicken. Is it right?
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ju

 

[Rover_KE]

Chicken is only used for the domestic fowl.

The young of wild birds are always called chicks.

Rover

 

[Ju]

A chick is a baby chicken. A young hen (under one year of age) in the US is called a pullet. A male chicken in the US is called a rooster.

To conclude:

Mother chicken is a hen
Father chicken is a rooster or cock
baby chicken is a chick
chicken is the overall name for hen, rooster and chick
a young hen (under one year of age) is a pullet

It seems the name of pullet is not a common one among the others, am I right?


ju

 

[Route21]

And a young cock/rooster is a cockerel (again usually less than one year old):
cockerel - definition of cockerel by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Regards
R21

PS In BrE I've heard of and used the term "pullet", but normally only in farming communities - where there is a need for differentiation between male/female/young/old. If I were eating the meat (chicken) I wouldn't care what age or sex it had been, providing it's tasty and tender!

 

[Raymott]

1. What are the differences [STRIKE]among[/STRIKE] between rooster, chick and chicken?

 

[Ju]

1. What are the differences [STRIKE]among[/STRIKE] between rooster, chick and chicken?

Thank you for your reply.

May I clarify as I was told :

1. between is used if it's talking about 2 objects

2. among is used if it's talking about more than 2 objects


ju

 

[5jj]

Thank you for your reply.

May I clarify as I was told :

1. between is used if it's talking about 2 objects

2. among is used if it's talking about more than 2 objects

Usually yes, but not with 'difference'; we always use 'between'.

 

[Ouisch]

To conclude:

Mother chicken is a hen
Father chicken is a rooster or cock
baby chicken is a chick
chicken is the overall name for hen, rooster and chick
a young hen (under one year of age) is a pullet

It seems the name of pullet is not a common one among the others, am I right?


ju

"Pullet" is one of those technical words that usually only chicken farmers or folks in the poultry industry are familiar with.

For your amusement, here is an industrial film about chicken farming and the future of the industry that was made back in 1948 (and in this case is being mocked by the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000):
Part One
Part Two

I must admit, though, that they did correctly predict that our roast chickens of the 21st century weren't nearly as scrawny and anemic as that 1948 specimen. ;-)

 

[5jj]

For your amusement, here is an industrial film about chicken farming and the future of the industry that was made back in 1948 (and in this case is being mocked by the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000):
Part One
Part Two

Thank you for that. :lol:

 

[Ju]

Usually yes, but not with 'difference'; we always use 'between'.

Do you mean between is the preposition of difference always regardless what it is talking about?


ju

 

[5jj]

We speak of the difference beteween two or more things. We never use 'among' with 'difference'

 

[Ju]

To conclude:

Mother chicken is a hen
Father chicken is a rooster or cock
baby chicken is a chick
chicken is the overall name for hen, rooster and chick
a young hen (under one year of age) is a pullet

It seems the name of pullet is not a common one among the others, am I right?


ju

Can I ask one more time :

To conclude:

Mother chicken is a hen
Father chicken is a rooster or cock
baby chicken is a chick
chicken is the overall name for hen, rooster and chick
a young hen (under one year of age) is a pullet


ju

 

[Route21]

and ........

Have you read post 5?

And a young cock/rooster is a cockerel (again usually less than one year old):
cockerel - definition of cockerel by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

Regards
R21

 

[emsr2d2]

I visited my dad and stepmum the other day and I was proudly presented with six pullet's eggs.

They are not poultry farmers, they had simply bought those eggs at a local market where they were very clearly marked as "pullet's eggs" and were sold separately from the usual chicken's eggs.

However, it's not a word we hear very much.

 

[Ouisch]

Can I ask one more time :

To conclude:

Mother chicken is a hen
Father chicken is a rooster or cock
baby chicken is a chick
chicken is the overall name for hen, rooster and chick
a young hen (under one year of age) is a pullet


ju

Yes, the poultry terms you listed are correct. And now for some reason I'm craving some Kentucky Fried Chicken..... :-D

 

[Raymott]

Yes, and the thread's getting a bit long for such a poultry amount of information anyway.
(OK, I'm off-topic. Is that a technical fowl?)

 

[SanMar]

Yes, if you call someone a chicken you are calling them, in a mild manner, a coward.
Sometimes it is even followed with a little chicken dance or flapping of your arms while saying "bock bock bock".

Not a teacher.