However, there is a small nuance to the definition of waterfowl that should be noted. Not all ducks and geese are domesticated.
And as poultry deals with domesticated birds, the class of waterfowl does not lie completely within the poultry definition. The penguin is a swimming bird that lives in an aquatic environment. If I kept penguins for their eggs, would they be considered waterfowl and poultry?
Hence, penguins should not be considered a waterfowl. With regards to poultry, while there are no penguin-for-food farms that I am aware off, should there actually be one, then the penguin would fall into the category of poultry as it is a domesticated bird that is being kept for consumption. What Is Landfowl? The name landfowl is a little more tricky as it is not really an accurate term. By this definition, even the tiny hummingbird would be up for grabs as it lives on land and not the water.
The correct term for what we refer to as landfowl is galliformes. Yet we already know that the ostrich is not considered a landfowl. Because it comes from a different family of fowl — the Struthionidae. An easier way to think of it is like this. The Struthionidae are a class of flightless birds. Prior to being kept for a food source, chickens were used for cockfighting and often seen in special ceremonies. It was during the Hellenistic period that they became a farm animal and started being raised for meat and eggs.
At this point, the birds are practically everywhere, both in the wild and being domestically raised for farming purposes.
Now that we have further discussed the differences and definitions of fowl and chickens, another commonly confused set of terms is poultry and game. These two terms can be seen together in some cases, but they are two different things. Essentially, some poultry can be considered game, but game encompasses more than just poultry alone. For example, poultry includes all domestic birds that are usually kept for food or farming purposes.
These birds can commonly be kept as pets and include all of your traditional farm birds. Some common examples of poultry are chickens, fowl, turkey, geese, ducks, and more. On the other hand, game includes birds and animals that are used for food purposes. However, these are not domestic animals and are usually hunted in field and forest.
These are all legally hunted animals including species like quail, deer, wild duck, partridges, wild turkeys, etc. Poultry and fowl are two terms that go hand in hand and pretty much mean the same thing.
However, most poultry are domesticated birds that are kept by humans for their eggs, meat, feathers, etc. They are usually members of the superorder Galloanserae or fowl, as mentioned. Poultry can include other birds that are killed for their meat but are not necessarily domesticated.
These, for example, are pigeons or squabs. However, the term poultry does not include other wild birds that are hunted for sport or for eating , which is considered game we will further define the term game further next.
The actual term poultry comes from a French and Norman word that is poule, which is derived from the Latin word pullus. These terms mean small animal, which is fitting for the small birds that the term represents. The domestication of poultry and chickens was a very similar process and took place several thousand years ago. As mentioned, many domesticated chickens were first used for cockfighting. However, another common poultry, quail, were originally kept for their songs.
Both are generally chickens, but the names indicate their gender and that they are adults. But what about the chicken terms for boys and girls? Here, we must get help from the English dictionary. This states that a young male chicken is called a cockerel , while the name for a young female chicken is a pullet.
So far so good. But when does a chicken go from being a young female chicken to becoming an adult hen? At that point there is a little more disagreement. Some say that a chicken can be called a hen when it has laid its first egg.
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