Chicken Quotes from Chicken Little
Sussex Rooster - This is a grown male chicken
Sussex Rooster
A rooster, also known as a cockerel, or a cock is a male chicken (Gallus gallus) with the female being called a hen. Immature male chickens of less than a year’s age are called cockerels. The oldest term is “cock,” from Old English coc. The term “rooster” originates from the United States, while in the United Kingdom and Ireland the older term “cockerel” is more widely used.
“Cock” is in general use as the name for a male of other species of bird, for example “Cock sparrow.” “Roosting” is the action of perching aloft to sleep at night, and is done by both sexes.
The rooster is often portrayed as crowing at the break of dawn and will almost always start crowing before 4 months of age. He can often be seen sitting on fence posts or other objects, where he crows to proclaim his territory. However, this idea is more romantic than real, as a rooster can and will crow at any time of the day.
Roosters will occasionally make a patterned series of clucks to attract hens to a source of food, the same way a mother hen does for her chicks.
A capon is a castrated rooster. In the caponization procedure, the bird’s testes are completely removed; a surgical procedure is required for this as the rooster’s sexual organs are internal. Caponization also affects the disposition of the bird. Removal of the bird’s testes eliminates the male sex hormones, lessening the male sex instincts and changing their behaviour: the birds become more docile and less active and tend not to fight.
Definition
chick·en
[chik-uhn]
–noun
1.
a domestic fowl, Gallus domesticus, descended from various jungle fowl of southeastern Asia and developed in a number of breeds for its flesh, eggs, and feathers.
2.
the young of this bird, esp. when less than a year old.
3.
the flesh of the chicken, esp. of the young bird, used as food.
World English Dictionary
chicken
— n
1. a domestic fowl bred for its flesh or eggs, esp a young one
2. the flesh of such a bird used for food
3. any of various similar birds, such as a prairie chicken
Chicken Quotes
|||||||
A crane standing amidst a flock of chickens
– Chinese Proverb
|||||||
All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
– Shannen Doherty
|||||||
An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.
– Thomas Merton
|||||||
An overcrowded chicken farm produce fewer eggs.
– Chinese Proverb
|||||||
Are we to have a church in which everyone’s judgment is equal to everyone else’s? That’s not a church, it’s chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.
– Author unknown
|||||||
Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
|||||||
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets
– Henry Ford
|||||||
Chicken one day, feathers the next
– Author unknown
|||||||
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
– Ian Hacking
|||||||
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!
– Anne Tyler
|||||||
Fail to steal the chicken while it ate up your bait grain.
– Chinese Proverb
|||||||
HAM AND EGGS – A day’s work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig.
– Author unknown
|||||||
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
|||||||
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday
– Author unknown
|||||||
If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he’s gotta get greasy.
– Author unknown
|||||||
If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens. – William Lyon Phelps
If I hadn’t started painting, I would have raised chickens. – Author unknown
|||||||
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we’ll all be plucking chickens for a living.
– H Ross Perot
|||||||
If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it [but] people would be better off buyin’ chickens.
– Anna Mary Robertson Moses
|||||||
In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders.
– Author unknown
|||||||
Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says ‘Chicken by the Sea.
– Jessica Simpson
|||||||
Click here for more Chicken Quotes
Like Chickens? Click here for Keeping Chickens
Related Quotes
Click here for Tweety Bird Quotes
Click here for Pelican Quotes
Click here for Parrot Quotes
- Chicken little | Interesting and Beautiful pictures
- Dumb clucks « Marisacat
- Jay Sparrow – In Our Time « buying shots for bands
- Considering Keeping Hens? – Preparing Beforehand Is A Must
- The return of the rooster’s crow | Small Farm Life
- Disney’s Chicken Little: Ace in Action | Game Patch
- The Cockerel | Capel Manor College
