Word Finder - chickens

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A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.

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The meat from this bird eaten as food.

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The young of any bird; a chick.

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A coward.

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A young or inexperienced person.

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A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

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The game of dare.

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A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

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To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

The chickens need to be fed and watered.

The chickens liked their new run, which was purposely left full of weeds.

Incorporating them into chickens may well produce demented as well as poisonous chickens.

Little birds and chickens come out of eggs.

Coupon Sense manager Jen Schaupp lives in Colorado with her husband, three small children, and four chickens.

Common fauna includes birds, chickens, monkeys, horses, snakes, dogs and goats.

Children and adults alike can enjoy seeing chickens, sheep, horses and farm animals in their natural environment.

Strict discipline was maintained, soldiers being hanged for stealing chickens; faith was always kept; and short, sharp action was more merciful in the long run than a milder but less effective policy.

Chicken interferon gamma has been proposed as a vaccine adjuvant and growth promoter for chickens [5] .

When used in chickens where maternal antibody still exists, the way in which this vaccine is administered is critical.

Other pets are often curious at first but soon befriend the chickens.

Despite the almost deafening roar of chickens coming home to roost in the numbers, Gordon Brown did not say sorry.

At one site, the only access to water was from rows of ' nipple drinkers ', originally developed for chickens.

If they are now to be criticized for not running sufficiently expansionary fiscal policies, they will be running around like headless chickens.

D Devonshire Traditional Breed Center Chickens - wide range of pure bred large and bantam fowl for beginner and experienced keeper.

Visitors can also see the rare breeds of chickens, cows, pigs and pygmy goats stocked.

Catching in this way leads to dislocated hips in some meat chickens.

Its most important effect is to cause a severe, prolonged immunosuppression of chickens infected at an early age.

Penhalt is a working farm with a few chickens and we have nesting house martins and swallows.

Children of all ages delight in meeting our farm animals - a growing menagerie of donkeys, ponies and chickens.

Three others quickly follow me down, with a large posse of chickens turning around at the top.

In any event the possible adverse effect on humans from eating such chickens seems somewhat remote.

He once boasted he had shot a white rook and later found it was one of his own chickens.

Animals used have mainly been cats and monkeys, but chickens and tree shrews also have been used.

Can Danger Mouse and his bumbling sidekick Penfold keep us safe from deadly sound guns, giant chickens, pyramids and robot ghosts?

Uses For active immunization of chickens to reduce mortality and infection caused by Salmonella gallinarum (fowl typhoid) and Salmonella enteritidis.

We lost clothes, money which had been hidden in the house for dowry, cooking utensils, even chickens.

I buy my eggs from a farmer whose chickens roam free.

At a farmers' market I recently visited, one vendor boasted that all his chickens "retained their dignity throughout their life."

Mrs. Thompson's chickens killed Leila's chickens.

Mildred does feed little chickens with crumbs.

She is much interested in some little chickens that are pecking their way into the world this morning.

Besides the chickens, we have several other additions to the family--two calves, a colt, and a penful of funny little pigs.

The chickens, which had also taken shelter here from the rain, stalked about the room like members of the family, too humanized, methought, to roast well.

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens.

These were my hens and chickens.

One of his last nets was hanging in the garden where he now rears chickens.

It 's great fun with all the mice and chickens, secret recipes and more.

Here we have an 8½ acre smallholding with sheep, chickens and honey bees.

We left the trussed, squawking chickens tied to a tree near the mound.

Judging from repeated remarks in the visitation records, it seems that his senses may first have been assailed by chickens.

Scientists at a famous UK aircraft manufacturer built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets.

The most common animal choices are cows, pigs, and chickens, but other animals such as goats and horses can also be suitable depending on what animals or livestock are most meaningful to the farmer.

Raise their own livestock - This may not be possible for most, but some people aiming for self sufficiency raise their own chickens and cattle.

With a precarious economy and concerns about food-borne diseases and the runoff from factory farms on the rise, everything old is new again and this includes raising backyard chickens.

While it's absolutely worth it, a family that consumes a lot of eggs but needs to cut some corners might consider raising a few chickens themselves.

Chicken droppings are good for your compost and the chickens themselves are excellent for insect control.

When chickens scratch for bugs, it improves the soil.

You should do a lot of research and planning if you are considering raising backyard chickens.

If it is, consider how many chickens you would like to have - the average hen will lay an egg approximately every 25 hours, except for the shortest days of the year.