feral chicken
Wild domestic fowl
A feral chicken is a domestic chicken that has returned to living wild, without human care.
Found in places like Hawaii and Key West, feral chickens roam freely, roosting in trees and foraging in urban areas: The feral chickens woke us at dawn.
Unlike wild jungle fowl, they descend from escaped or abandoned farm birds.
- wildNot domesticated or controlled
- gone wildBecome chaotic, unrestrained
- roosterMale domestic fowl
- henFemale fowl
- free-rangeNot confined to enclosure
free roaming · stray · untamed · pecking · pecking order · feathers · coop · backyard flock · barnyard · crowing · scratching · brood · flock · gamecock · foraging · clucking · escaped · domesticated
- stray animalsstray cat, stray dog, stray kitten, street cat, street dog
- junglefowl species
domestication status
feral chickenbattery hen
Egg bird in confinement
laying hen · broiler chicken · free-range chicken · poultry · organic chicken
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