Good verbal communication is contingent upon a fluent command of the native language. Nowhere is this more crucial than when speaking about a subject in which you claim to have expertise.
For those who plan to become involved with raising chickens I now continue with my glossary of "fowl" words:
• Crossbred - The offspring of a cock and hen of two different breeds.
• Crow - The characteristic call of a male chicken as an assertion of dominance.
• Dewlap - A surplus of loose skin extending from beneath the back of a chicken's beak to partway down the throat. It is characteristic of Brahma hens but undesirable in other breeds.
• Drench - to give liquid medication by mouth.
• Dual Purpose Breed - A breed raised for the production of both eggs and meat.
• Dub - to surgically trim the comb of a cockerel.
• Egg Binding/ Egg Bound - A condition in which an egg gets stuck just inside the vent, usually because the egg is too large, the pullet is fat or unhealthy, or the pullet's body isn't fully mature when she starts laying.
• Eviscerate - To remove the internal organs of a chicken being butchered for meat.
• Fecund - Capable of laying a large quantity of eggs, trait that varies from breed to breed and from strain to strain within a given breed.
• Feed Conversion - The pounds of feed needed to produce a dozen eggs or increase a broiler's weight by one pound.
• Flighty - Easily excited.
• Flock - A group of chickens living together.
• Fluff - The portion of a feather at the lower end of the shaft, which has no hooks to form a smooth web and is therefore soft and downy.
• Free choice - Available to chickens at all times so individuals can take as much as they need. (e.g. food and water).
• Free range - technically means chickens are not confined but in practical terms means chickens are allowed to roam at will within a fenced outdoor area.
• Gizzard - A chicken's mechanical stomach, lying between the true stomach and the small intestine. The gizzard consists of strong muscles surrounding a tough pouch where gritty materials such as coarse sand and small pebbles accumulate for grinding up fibrous feedstuff and whole grain passing through. Over time the grit gets ground down and must be replaced every so often.
• Go Broody - When a hen develops the urge to set on a nest and hatch and raise (brood) chicks.
• Keel - The ridge running down the outer center of a chicken's breastbone, resembling the keel of a boat. Chickens and other birds are the only vertebrates having a keel, which serves as an attachment for wing muscles.
Hopefully the included terms serve you well in your poultry endeavors. If you want to be taken seriously on any subject you need to be able to "talk the talk"!