chooks

Eggs from them

Chooks is Australian and New Zealand slang for chickens, especially domestic hens kept for eggs.

The word is informal and affectionate: I need to feed the chooks before dark.

A chook raffle is a common pub fundraiser where the prize is a chicken.

housing

coop

Poultry enclosure

nesting box · waterer · feeder · bedding · perch · free-range · backyard

types

hen

Female fowl

layer · cockerel · Rhode Island Red

behavior

peck

Dry measure or quick kiss

brood · nest · dustbath · perch · molt · preen · flock

feathers

plumage

Bird's complete feather coat

  • downToward lower ground
  • quillsHollow defensive animal spikes
  • fluffySoft and light-textured

molting · preen · hackles · tail feathers · wing clipping

sounds

cluck

Hen's throaty call

peep · gabble · chatter · warble · coo · gobble

eggs

laying

Putting down horizontally

  • clutchMechanism linking engine to gearbox
  • yolkEgg's nutrient core
  • albumenClear protein in eggs

shell · hatch · incubation · broody · nesting · eggbound

Opposites
domestication status

chookswild birds

game birds · wildfowl · wild turkeys · pheasants · grouse

predator-prey relationship

chooksfoxes

Small wild canines

chicken hawks · hawks · dingoes · snakes · dogs

Family

chook

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Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G