GEOSSARY OFS@GOMMON POULTRY 
TERMS 
Brassy — White plumage with yellowish tinge. 
Breed — Groups of fowls with distinct characteristics. 
Brood — Number of young chicks being raised together. 
Broody — Showing a desire to incubate. 
Carriage — Characteristic attitude of a bird when at rest and 
in motion, 
Class — Divisions in which various breeds are associated. 
There are fourteen in the American Standard of Perfection, 
Cock — Male bird at least a year old. 
Cockerel — Male bird under a year. 
Condition — The state of a bird’s health, plumage and clean- 
liness. 
Crest — Tuft of feathers on the head. 
Crop — Receptacle which receives and softens the food before 
it passes into a bird’s crop. 
Cushion — Feathers at the rear of the back of a fowl. 
Disqualification — A defect which renders a bird unworthy to 
compete for a prize. Disqualifications are named in the 
Standard of Perfection. 
Down — The fine hairy covering of chicks. 
Drake — The male of the duck family. 
Duckling — Young of the duck family. 
Ear-lobes — The skin just below the ears. It varies in color 
with the breed. 
Flights — Long feathers of the wings used in flying, but cae- 
cealed when the bird is at rest. 
Fluff — Soft downy feathers on a fowl’s posterior. 
Gills — Another name for wattles. 
Gosling — The young of geese. 
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