turkey hen
She gobbles back
A turkey hen is a female turkey, distinguished from the male (tom or gobbler) by smaller size and less colorful plumage.
The term appears most often in hunting and farming contexts: The turkey hen led her poults across the field.
- fowlBirds for the table
- motherFemale parent
- poultryBirds raised for food
- feathersBird's lightweight covering
- femaleOffspring-bearing sex
bird · brood · mature · tail · wattles · domesticated · free range · chicks · egg laying · nest · game bird · nesting habits · breeding stock · mating season · incubation · ground nesting · scratch · dust bath
- Turkey Farminggobbler, wattle, snood, caruncle, pasture raised