The hen cackles, in particular to call its chickens.
The hen is the female of the cock. Baby chickens are called chicks.
The chicken is a hen or cock not yet adult. A small male chicken is a cockerel, a chicken female a pullet.
A young cock castrated to reach more tenderness is a capon, a pullet to which one removed the ovaries for the same reason a poulard.
Scientific Name: Galus galus
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Gallus
European Synonyms: poule, kip, chicken, Huhn
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