POULTRY TERMS

• Capon- a caponized male, readily distinguished by undeveloped comb and wattles

  Chick - young chicken while in the down stage

  Chicken - one of the more common poultry species different from turkey, goose, etc.

  Cockerel - a male fowl less than one year old

  Drake- a male duck

  Duck - a female duck

  Duckling -young duck in the down stage
• Poult - the young of the domestic turkey, properly applied until sex can be distinguished

  Poultry - collective term for all domestic birds rendering economic service to man; also refer to dressed fowl carcass

  Plumage - the feathers of a fowl

  Pullet - a female fowl less than one year