Leicester_H Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 http://www.scicultchickens.org/ Who'd have thought it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Ah yes, I've been following this for a while Out of the blue, OH who knows nothing about this project, was musing about how chickens came to be in this country and whether in medieval times chooks were allowed to scratch about in the 'traditional farmyard scene' because surely they were very valuable We'd started off by saying that most of us refer to 'buying a chicken' when buying meat, but actually a lot of them are cockerals, and a lot of us talk about 'our chickens' when we mean hens, so chicken is often used as a gender-neutral word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Chicken is indeed the gender-neutral term, just as a sheep could be a ram or a ewe. But the project sounds interesting! Looking forward to seeing the outcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbug Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Interesting - will have a good look at this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beantree Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 In 1900 a 'geek' was a circus performer specialising in biting the heads off chickens and rats I read on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Thank you for the link. . It had a Twitter link which I have followed which led to a couple of other interesting accounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
