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Hens, roosters, chicks, the coop and 19 breeds in one word search, with its answer key.

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HenHEN
RoosterROOSTER
ChickCHICK
CoopCOOP
CombCOMB
FeatherFEATHER
NestNEST
HatchHATCH
EggEGG
BeakBEAK
WingWING
FlockFLOCK
WattleWATTLE
YolkYOLK
PeckPECK
CluckCLUCK

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Answer key: Chicken Word Search

OISSTSTWSUBELYP

DAWNTUFVARULYNO

EWATTLEGGCOHOTS

EYCCLAAIKORALCO

YAROOSTEROITKLT

PWLMNUHDEPFCBUE

BDWBYIEREMCHICK

NRHAFSRNIFLOCKS

EIESVOUEAUMFEMC

SWNRTFOLOHPXWMR

TIFBOLFJTFNSDOX

SNTONPCISTUDDOW

WGHFMEXSOSZEAAD

GWCNNCLDTFLNTTR

MTBEAKHOTTLOTNE

HEN, ROOSTER, CHICK, COOP, COMB, FEATHER, NEST, HATCH, EGG, BEAK, WING, FLOCK, WATTLE, YOLK, PECK, CLUCK

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Hens, Roosters and the Flock 17

Bantam Any small variety of fowl; the word comes from the name of a seaport on the island of Java.
Breed A kind of farm animal with its own size, color and shape; there are hundreds for this bird.
Broiler A bird bred and raised for meat.
Chicken The tame form of the red junglefowl; it is one of the most common farm animals in the world.
Chook The everyday word for this bird in Australia and New Zealand.
Flock A group of birds that live together; a typical one has one male and several females.
Hen An adult female; her cluck calls her young and follows each egg she lays.
Junglefowl The wild red bird of Southeast Asia from which farm hens and roosters descend.
Layer A hen kept for her eggs.
Omnivore An animal that eats both plants and animals; a hen eats seeds, insects and even small lizards.
Pecking order The ranking in a flock that decides who gets first turn at food and nest sites; it was described in hens in 1921.
Pet Some people keep hens as one of these, and name them as they would a cat or a dog.
Poultry Tame birds such as ducks, turkeys and geese that people keep for eggs, meat or feathers.
Pullet A young female less than a year old.
Rooster An adult male, the name used most in North America; he is known for his loud call.
Thailand The earliest probable bones of tame fowl, about 3,250 years old, were dug up in the center of this country.
Yardbird A word used in the southern United States for a hen or a rooster.

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Parts of a Chicken 18

Beak The hard, short bill, used to peck up food and to smooth the feathers.
Beard Extra feathers under the face that some breeds have.
Claw A hen has four on each foot and uses them to scratch the earth for food.
Comb The fleshy crest on top of the head, most often red and larger on males.
Crest A big tuft of feathers on top of the head, as the Polish breed has.
Crop A pouch near the throat where food is stored before it is digested.
Down The layer of soft, fluffy feathers that covers a newly hatched chick.
Earlobe A fleshy patch on the side of the head; on a Silkie it is blue.
Egg tooth A small sharp point on a hatchling's beak, used to break through the shell from inside.
Feather One of the light growths that cover a bird's body and keep it warm and dry.
Gizzard A stomach with thick walls of muscle that grinds food, helped by swallowed grit.
Plumage All of a bird's feathers together.
Skin A Silkie's is black; the gene that makes it yellow in many breeds came from the grey junglefowl.
Spur A sharp growth of bone and horn on the leg, larger and more common on roosters.
Tail The feathers at the back of the body; a bird takes preen oil from a gland at its base.
Toe Most hens have four on each foot; the Silkie and the Faverolles have five.
Wattle One of the two flaps of skin that hang under the beak.
Wing It is short; a farm bird's flight muscles are too heavy to carry it more than a little way.

Chicken Breeds 19

Ancona A breed named after a city in Italy but brought to its present form mostly in Britain.
Araucana A breed from Chile, one of very few that lay eggs with blue shells.
Australorp An Australian breed that comes from the Black Orpington; a good hen lays over 300 eggs in a year.
Cochin A very large breed with feathered legs, bred from birds brought from China in the 1840s and 1850s.
Dominique Thought to be the oldest American breed, with black-and-white barred feathers.
Dorking A British breed named after a town in Surrey, and one of the oldest in Britain.
Faverolles A French breed of the 1860s, named after a village; the final letter of its name is silent in French.
Frizzle A bird whose feathers curl outward; some countries count it as a breed of its own.
Jersey Giant An American breed of the late 1800s, among the heaviest of all.
Leghorn A breed from Tuscany named for an Italian port city; white ones are common layers around the world.
Marans A French breed named after a port town; its eggs are a rich dark brown.
Minorca A Spanish breed from an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Orpington A British breed created in the 1880s in a town of the same name, then in Kent.
Plymouth Rock An American breed first seen in Massachusetts in the 1800s; it lays brown eggs and stands the cold well.
Polish A European breed with a small V-shaped comb and a big crest of feathers on its head.
Rhode Island Red An American breed of the late 1800s that is the official bird of a New England state.
Sebright A British true bantam: a tiny breed that has no large version.
Silkie A Chinese breed with fluffy feathers that feel like fur, black skin and five toes on each foot.
Wyandotte An American breed of the 1870s that lays brown eggs; it was first called the American Sebright.

Eggs and Chicks 14

Broody The word for a hen that stops laying and sits firmly on her eggs.
Brown The color of the eggs laid by the Plymouth Rock, the Wyandotte and the Dominique.
Candling Shining a bright light behind an egg to see what is inside.
Chick A young bird, covered in soft down when it breaks out of the egg.
Egg The best laying hens produce more than 300 of these in a year.
Embryo The unborn young growing inside an egg.
Hatch To break out of the egg, which happens about 21 days after a hen starts to sit.
Imprint What newly hatched young do when they fix on the hen and then follow her everywhere.
Incubator A machine that keeps eggs warm and turns them until the young break out.
Nest Hens in a flock like to lay in one that already holds eggs.
Oven As early as 400 BC the Egyptians warmed eggs in a building of this kind with a fire at the bottom.
Pip To break the first small hole in the shell from the inside.
White The clear liquid in an egg that surrounds and protects the yolk goes by this color's name.
Yolk The yellow part of an egg, which feeds the growing embryo.

The Coop and the Yard 19

Alarm A warning call; a flock has one for danger from the air and another for danger on the ground.
Cluck The sound a hen makes after laying an egg and when calling her young.
Coop A small house where birds are kept safe; it may hold nest boxes and perches.
Crow A rooster's loud, shrill call, a signal to other males that this ground is his.
Dust bath Rolling and wriggling in dry earth, which helps keep the feathers clean and free of pests.
Farm A place where crops are grown and animals such as hens are raised.
Fence A barrier around a yard; even free-range birds often live inside one.
Forage To wander about in search of food.
Fox A wild hunter of hens; a flock is able to mob a young, unskilled one.
Free range A way of farming that lets animals roam outside for some of each day, not shut indoors.
Grain Seeds such as corn and wheat; modern poultry feed is made largely of it.
Grit Small stones a bird swallows; they help the gizzard grind food.
Insects Small six-legged animals that a hen digs up and eats along with seeds.
Peck To strike or pick something up with the beak.
Perch A bar or branch on which a bird rests.
Preen To clean and smooth the feathers with the beak.
Riddle The famous one about a bird that crossed the road is at least as old as 1847.
Roost To settle on a perch to rest or sleep.
Scratch What a hen does to the soil with her feet to uncover seeds and insects.

How this list was compiled: 87 chicken words in five lists, from parts of the bird to 19 breeds. Facts in the clues were checked on October 16, 2026 against English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0), chiefly its Chicken article and one for each breed, and the Smithsonian's National Zoo chicken fact sheet; spellings against English Wiktionary. This site is not affiliated with either. Licence: own work

How it works

This chicken wordsearch opens on 16 words: Hen, Rooster and Chick, their Coop and Nest, Comb, Feather and Wattle from the body, and Hatch, Egg and Yolk. Five lists hold 87 chicken words in all, 19 of them breeds.

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From hen and rooster to the parts of a chicken

Hens, Roosters and the Flock has 17 words, such as Pullet, a young hen, and Junglefowl, the wild bird that chickens descend from. Parts of a Chicken has 18, from Comb and Wattle to Gizzard and Egg tooth. Eggs and Chicks has 14, with Yolk, Broody and Incubator.

Chicken breeds and a day in the coop

Chicken Breeds hides 19 names, from Leghorn and Silkie to Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island Red. The Coop and the Yard has 19 words for what chickens do all day: Peck, Scratch, Roost, Preen and take a Dust bath.

Easy Chicken has 40 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Hen, Egg, Coop, Beak and Cluck.
Start a lesson with the Riddle clue: "The famous one about a bird that crossed the road is at least as old as 1847."

Questions and answers

What is the difference between a hen and a rooster?

A hen is an adult female chicken and a rooster is an adult male. Roosters tend to be larger, with bigger combs and wattles, and they crow. Hens do not crow, but they cluck.

How long does it take a chicken egg to hatch?

About 21 days. The chick breaks out with its egg tooth, a small sharp point on its beak, and for about two days it feeds on the last of the yolk.

How many eggs does a hen lay in a year?

A hen bred for laying can produce more than 300 eggs a year. The highest rate on record is 371 eggs in 364 days.

Where do chickens come from?

From the red junglefowl, a wild bird of Southeast Asia. Genetic studies put the taming at about 8,000 years ago, though the earliest probable chicken bones, from Thailand, are about 3,250 years old. Chickens are now among the most common farm animals in the world.

All 87 words

Hens, Roosters and the Flock 17

Parts of a Chicken 18

Chicken Breeds 19

Eggs and Chicks 14

The Coop and the Yard 19

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