Terminology

Didactic model of a chicken.

An adult male is a called a 'cock' or 'rooster' (in the United States) and an adult female is called a
'hen'.[11][12]
Other terms are:

 'Biddy:' a newly hatched chicken[13][14]

 'Capon:' a castrated or neutered male chicken[a]
 'Chick:' a young chicken[15]
 'Chook' /tʃʊk/: a chicken (Australia, informal) [16]
 'Cockerel:' a young male chicken less than a year old[17]
 'Pullet:' a young female chicken less than a year old. [18] In the poultry industry, a pullet is
a sexually immature chicken less than 22 weeks of age. [19]
 'Yardbird:' a chicken (southern United States, dialectal) [20]
"Chicken" was originally a term only for an immature, or at least young, bird. [when?] However, thanks to
its usage on restaurant menus, it has now become the most common term for the subspecies in
general, especially in American English. In older sources, 'chicken' as a species were typically
referred to as 'common fowl' or 'domestic fowl'.[21]
'Chicken' may also mean a 'chick' (see for example Hen and Chicken Islands).[2