What is the difference between roosters chickens and hens? How do they mate?
Chicken is the name of the species. A hen is a female chicken, and a rooster or cockerel is a male chicken.
Answered by Jennifer P. -Galleries
About Chicken
A chicken is a type of domesticated fowl, and one of the oldest domesticated species. There are more chickens on Earth than any other type of bird. Humans keep chickens mainly as a source of food. We eat their eggs and use them for meat.
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