2007-02-19 03:43:26 · 12 answers · asked by Cherie L 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
A chicken can refer to either sex (or to the complete dinner on your table!). Females are referred to as pullets or hens, males are referred to as roosters or cockerels. Same with many other livestock - there are different names for them referring to the same thing. for instance pigs referrs to all swine but females can also be called sows or gilts. It just depends on the terminology you prefer.
2007-02-19 03:51:01 · answer #1 · answered by SC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken is usually applied to the birds meat as a food and can be used for both sexes.
Hen means female.
Rooster and Cockerel are the same thing.
2007-02-20 18:15:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi!!!!!
Not that I live on a farm or anything but as I have hens I thought I could help. I know that a chicken is just basically all of them, (just like we're all people). Hens are the females, only they lay eggs, but I'm not sure about Roosters and Cockerels. I should because 1 of my hens thinks she's male, crows every morning and has stopped laying. We don't call her Mabel anymore, we call her Moses!
2007-02-19 14:58:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A chicken is the species -- male or female.
A hen is a female. A young female is called a pullet.
A Rooster is a male. A cockerel is a young male under one year old. A c-o-c-k is an older male.
2007-02-20 07:31:04 · answer #4 · answered by not_mn_nice 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A chicken becomes a hen after its first moult. A cockerel is a young male bird in its first year when it becomes a c ock. Rooster is a generic farmyard term for a male of the species.
2007-02-20 10:24:16 · answer #5 · answered by des c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chickens- the ones you eat ( male or female )
hens- the chikens that lay eggs ( may be eaten later \ female )
rooster- male chicken
cockerel- the stud chicken that you put with the hens \ or the male chickens that you fight ( refered to as " cocks" )
note that a cockerel is just more specific than rooster
2007-02-19 13:18:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicken is male or female when killed,plucked and ready to cook-a cockerel or rooster is a male chicken.
2007-02-21 11:26:00 · answer #7 · answered by mother 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there alll the same thing its just that there all different names for chicken
2007-02-19 12:53:42 · answer #8 · answered by sarah_see_123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
roosters don't lay eggs
2007-02-19 11:51:03 · answer #9 · answered by katie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are spelt differently. Other than that, nothing.
2007-02-19 11:47:41 · answer #10 · answered by FC 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋