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Old 02-13-2020, 09:31 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Please allow me to help your crack research team with the terminology question.

The males are called roosters. Also cocks, but that's not a common term except among 5th grade boys.

Females are called hens. (Young hens less than a year old are sometimes called pullets.)

Collectively, they are chickens.
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