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Cockerel: a young male chicken [8] Hen: an adult female chicken [9] Pullet: a young female chicken less than a year old. [10] In the poultry industry, a pullet is a sexually immature chicken less than 22 weeks of age. [11] Rooster: a fertile adult male chicken, especially in North America.
Vent sexing in Wenchang, Hainan, China (2014). Vent sexing, also known simply as venting, involves squeezing the feces out of the chick, which opens up the chick's anal vent (called a cloaca) slightly, allowing the chicken sexer to see if the chick has a small "bump", which would indicate that the chick is a male.
Skin of adult chickens carrying Hf has increased levels of estrogens. When skin grafts taken from females carrying Hf gene, are put on normal males, the skin of the grafts develop female (shorter and rounded tip) feathers. If the hosts of the grafts are subsequently castrated, all the feathers, including that of the skin graft turned into the ...
Egg producers prize female layer chickens, and many kill the males. The new headquarters of Targan on Six Forks Roads just inside the Beltline. This week, Turpin gave The News & Observer a tour of ...
Hen commonly refers to a female animal: a female chicken, other gallinaceous bird, any type of bird in general, or a lobster. It is also a slang term for a woman . Hen , HEN or Hens may also refer to:
Illustration of thirty-nine varieties of chicken (and one Guinea Fowl) . There are hundreds of chicken breeds in existence. [1] Domesticated for thousands of years, distinguishable breeds of chicken have been present since the combined factors of geographical isolation and selection for desired characteristics created regional types with distinct physical and behavioral traits passed on to ...
The Bielefelder Kennhuhn (German pronunciation: [ˈbiːləfɛldɐ ˈkɛnˌhuːn]) or Bielefelder is a German breed of domestic chicken.It was developed in the area of Bielefeld in the 1970s by Gerd Roth, who cross-bred birds of Malines and Welsumer stock with American Barred Rocks to create the breed.
In French, poussin is a newly hatched chick (either sex), poulet is a young chick (either sex), poulette is a young female chicken (one form of a poulet, and corresponding to the male coquelet), poularde is a poulette deliberately fattened for eating (often spayed, and the equivalent of the castrated male chapon or capon), and a poule is an egg ...