Birds
BROILER=Young meat-type chicken between 5 and 12 weeks of age
CAPON=Castrated Male chicken
COCK=Male chicken over one year of age
COCKEREL=Male chicken less than one year of age
PULLET=Young female chicken
CANDLING=Shining a light through an egg to see its features
GIZZARD=Muscular organ inside a bird that grinds food
FLEDGING=A young bird that has left the nest, but can not feed on its own
GAGGLE=A group of geese
GANDER=Mature male goose
GOSLING=Baby goose of either sex
DOWN=Soft feathery covering on young poultry
DRAKE=Mature male duck
DUCKLING=Young duck that has not grown feathers
PEACOCK=Male peafowl
PEAHEN=A female peafowl
POULT=Young turkey not grown to the point where its sex is readily identifiable
MOLTING=Process of poultry shedding and renewing feathers
RATITE=A group of large, flightless birds, sucha s orstrich or emus
TOM=Male turkey