ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rooster: A male chicken; also called a cock.

Detailed explanation-2: -"Poultry” can be defined as domestic fowls, including chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks, raised for the production of meat or eggs and the word is also used for the flesh of these birds used as food. The Encyclopaedia Britannica lists the same bird groups but also includes guinea fowl and squabs (young pigeons).

Detailed explanation-3: -noun, plural fowls, (especially collectively) fowl. the domestic or barnyard hen or rooster; chicken. Compare domestic fowl. any of several other, usually gallinaceous, birds that are barnyard, domesticated, or wild, as the duck, turkey, or pheasant.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cockerel = immature male chicken. Hen = adult female chicken. Cock/Rooster = adult male chicken.

Detailed explanation-5: -An adult male chicken is called a “rooster” and an adult female is called a “hen.” Roosters are larger, usually more brightly colored, and have larger combs on top of their heads compared to hens.