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Post by ladywell on Mar 13, 2012 16:04:52 GMT
Why do people insist on calling hens 'chickens'!! ? A chicken is a baby hen (or something you put in the oven!)  |
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Post by Kmj on Mar 13, 2012 16:30:55 GMT
Ooo I'm guilty of this! Although ours girls are ex bats so they have been nicknamed the chavs!!!!
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Post by brindlerainbow on Mar 13, 2012 16:33:07 GMT
I always call mine chickens...............
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Post by proudwilliam on Mar 13, 2012 16:55:59 GMT
We call them the 'girls'!
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Post by network on Mar 13, 2012 17:02:01 GMT
Chickens are chickens  |
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Post by starsandstripes on Mar 13, 2012 17:19:27 GMT
Yes we say chickens, or 'The Girls' .
Above there shed/house they have a sign which I got made at the New Forest Show which says 'Chicks Pad' ;D
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Post by brindlerainbow on Mar 13, 2012 17:26:07 GMT
I do sometimes call mine the chick sticks although I have no idea why!!!!!!! I think it's personal choice what people call them. I certainly wouldn't call a chick a chicken because it's not it's a chick!!! |
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Post by Kmj on Mar 13, 2012 18:27:50 GMT
Anyway someone correct me if I'm wrong but isnt a hen the word for a female chicken like a mare is a female horse?
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Post by brindlerainbow on Mar 13, 2012 18:52:32 GMT
KMJ yes you are right a hen is a female chicken and obviously a c0ckeral is a male so a mixed group of both sexes I would called chickens as opposed to hens & c0cks  |
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Post by ticktock on Mar 13, 2012 19:56:44 GMT
A chicken is the name of the animal (like horse), a chick is the name of the baby animal (like foal), a hen is a female chicken (like mare is a female horse) and cockerel is a male chicken (like stallion is a male horse). I call mine chickens because there are hens and a cockerel.
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Post by fanfarefan on Mar 13, 2012 20:05:23 GMT
im sorry but does it really matter if they are called Hens , or Chickens,  ?? |
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Post by brindlerainbow on Mar 13, 2012 20:11:36 GMT
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Post by ilovenatives on Mar 13, 2012 20:12:26 GMT
Have to agree , what a pointless thread |
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Post by ladywell on Mar 13, 2012 21:11:32 GMT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- im sorry but does it really matter if they are called Hens , or Chickens, ?? No it doesn't (did you not the see the smiley face on my post?) Just thought it might be an interesting until someone decided to be be offensive!! |
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Post by network on Mar 14, 2012 15:15:03 GMT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- im sorry but does it really matter if they are called Hens , or Chickens, ?? No it doesn't (did you not the see the smiley face on my post?) Just thought it might be an interesting until someone decided to be be offensive!! But you put it in the moaners area, therefore people have assumed your moaning ;D |
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Post by Sasha on Mar 14, 2012 15:25:37 GMT
I won't be calling mine either now as mr fox broke in and took them last night!
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Post by brindlerainbow on Mar 14, 2012 16:36:58 GMT
Ah thats sad news Caroline  |
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Post by fanfarefan on Mar 14, 2012 17:29:58 GMT
ahhh what a shame , so sorry for you ,----b-----d
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Post by watchbank on Mar 14, 2012 18:09:05 GMT
OMG i agree on the tele today a presenter called them CHICKENS i think it was hugh fearnly whittingstall - i expected better from him, they are HENS unless dead or babies... why is it so hard.....
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Post by ladywell on Mar 14, 2012 19:07:04 GMT
I started this as a bit of fun for debate! So sorry Caroline that you have lost yours - blooming foxes!! Never meant it to be anything other than a bit of light bantam (banter) |
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Post by Kmj on Mar 14, 2012 20:47:00 GMT
So could some just explain to little simple me the difference between a chick a chicken and a hen because I'm confused!!!!!!!!
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Post by brindlerainbow on Mar 14, 2012 20:50:00 GMT
A chicken is the species, a chick is a baby, a hen is a female and a c0ckeral is a male. As a collective group they are chickens |
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Post by Kmj on Mar 14, 2012 21:03:10 GMT
Well that's what I thought! So my girls are still chickens then coz for a minute there I thought someone was going to tell me I have ducks!!
So if a hen is a chicken why does it bug you? ;D (just a question am not being an a*se!)
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Post by nia2311 on Mar 14, 2012 21:30:10 GMT
Ours are called dinosaurs. They look like tiddy velociraptors legging it up the garden to try and foist food of us!
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Post by chalky284 on Mar 16, 2012 6:30:00 GMT
Mine are "the chicken lickens" or the birds. The ducks are "the duck ducks" and collectively all are the birds. Don't know why it's just the way it is in our house!!
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Post by andreab71 on Mar 16, 2012 7:55:23 GMT
So if chicken is the species but you should call them hens, does that mean instead of calling Pablo a horse, I must call him a gelding? And my dog Tessa, must I always refer to her as a b*tch?
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Post by watchbank on Mar 16, 2012 10:58:44 GMT
Mine are just simply hens and the males are cockrels... ive never called them chickens ever! a chicken is on my plate
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Post by nia2311 on Mar 16, 2012 12:15:05 GMT
Source: Wikipedia
In the UK, Ireland and Australia adult male chickens over the age of 12 months are primarily known as cocks, whereas in America and Canada they are more commonly called roosters. Males under a year old are cockerels.[5] Castrated roosters are called capons (surgical and chemical castration are now illegal in some parts of the world). Females over a year old are known as hens, and younger females are pullets.[6] In Australia and New Zealand (also sometimes in Britain), there is a generic term chook ( /ˈtʃʊk/) to describe all ages and both sexes.[7] Babies are called chicks, and the meat is called chicken.
"Chicken" originally referred to chicks, not the species itself. The species as a whole was then called domestic fowl, or just fowl. This use of "chicken" survives in the phrase "Hen and Chickens", sometimes used as a British public house or theatre name, and to name groups of one large and many small rocks or islands in the sea (see for example Hen and Chicken Islands).
In the Deep South of the United States chickens are also referred to by the slang term yardbird.[8]
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Post by fanfarefan on Mar 16, 2012 18:37:26 GMT
nice one nia !!!!! well im off tomorrow to buy two new birds !!!!!!
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Post by nia2311 on Mar 17, 2012 23:19:52 GMT
Hope the new domestic fowl (notice the term I use?!) are ok and settling in fanfarefan!
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