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Vocabulary: poultry and game birds...

There are several sorts and sizes of ways of raising fowl. Poultry raising exists on a small scale, in  farms, in chicken houses or more extensively, fowl can be raised either in batteries (battery-cages and growout houses) which are beginning to be seriously regulated, or in what is called free-range farming. The birds are free to roam in the daytime and confined at night or in bad weather. 

Organic poultry (for eggs and meat) is now often required by consumers. The fowl can be raised freely (free-range poultry) and be protected at night in closed shelters, sheds or barns.

A rooster (a cockerel)	A hen (a pullet)
A young chicken	Eggs and chicks.
Battery cages	Free-range raising

A duck and drake	Ducklings
A turkey	Geese (sing.= a goose)
A peacock	The peacock dance display

Other species of fowl are less common. They can grow in a farm, or in  the wilderness, living a happier life, if they do not meet the hunters... They are game birds or wild fowls. 

A pheasant	A partridge
A quail	A guinea fowl

Well well! Now, you know quite a lot about fowl ... enough not to sound ignorant in a restaurant or in a farm ... You're obviously ready for the test ...

This lesson wouldn't be complete without mentioning swans (2 of them for more splendour!) 

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1. Every morning, the roosterhengoosedrakeI don't know crows around six, as soon as the sun rises.
2. November is a very bad month for turkeyspartridgesquailschicksI don't know in the USA. Lots of them are killed and eaten for Thanksgiving.
3. When I saw the roosterpheasantpeacockdrakeI don't know do his display in the park, I was very impressed ! It's beautiful!
4.Pheasants and quailsDucks and ducklingsHens and chicksI don't know are swimming in the pond near the farm.
5. As they are such little birds, you need at least six quailsroosterspeacockschickensI don't know to make a middle-sized pâté .
6. When walking across the field, near the lake, the hunters could shoot several swanschickshenspheasantsI don't know which were walking in a row.
7. Visiting the farm, the kid was interested in a group of hensgoosesgeeseducklingsI don't know honking noisily, but when he went to them, they chased him... Very aggressive birds!
8. I don't want you to buy pheasantsbatteryduckgeeseI don't know eggs because the animals are ill-treated.
9. Look at all the pheasantsduckschicksroostersI don't know following their mother partridgedrakequailroosterhenI don't know. How cute they are!
10. You should buy cagedshedbatteryfree-rangeI don't know chickens; they taste really better, even if they are a little more expensive.

     

  A quail pie A guinea fowl pâté A recipe to cook guinea fowl.