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Chicken & Hen....
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What's the difference? - I'm thinking chicken is general whilst hen and cockeril denote gender..?
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They are Chickens before they start laying eggs. After that they are Hens.
As in Chick Hen.
As in Chick Hen.
08:57 Thu 11th Feb 2010
All female birds are hens but not all hens are female. In the days when fowls were kept purely for eggs domestically there was no roosters so the name hens popularly stuck to chooks in general.
btw. A cockerel is generally thought of as a young rooster before it is able to breed.
Yes, it is confusing.
btw. A cockerel is generally thought of as a young rooster before it is able to breed.
Yes, it is confusing.