poult

Immature game bird

A poult is a young domestic fowl, especially a young turkey or chicken.

The word appears most often in farming and poultry contexts: The farmer ordered fifty turkey poults for the season.

Related to pullet, which specifically means a young hen.

turkey

chick

Young bird, especially poultry

gobbler · snood · caruncle · wattle · strut · roost · clutch · brood · peep · drumming

development

hatchling

Recently emerged young

immature · fledgling · growth · feathering · imprinting · brooding · warmth · dependent · pinfeathers

farming

hatchery

Egg incubation facility

  • brooderHeated shelter for chicks
  • coopPoultry enclosure
  • feedSupply with sustenance

grain · husbandry · incubator · henhouse · livestock · rearing · brooding · flock · free-range · pastured

gamebird

pheasant

Large ornamental game bird

guinea fowl · peafowl · chukar · bobwhite · covey · wildfowl

Opposites
maturity/age

poulthen

Female fowl

tom · cock · breeding stock · rooster · gobbler

Phrases
Family

poultry, poultice, poultices, poults, poulticing, poulticed

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G