barnyard fowl
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The New York Mets — after reliever Frank Francisco called the rival Yankees "chickens" — have brought in a live barnyard fowl as a clubhouse pet, so now it's time to give it a name.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2012
Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl."
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediately everybody shuns him because ferrets are believed to massacre barnyard fowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
On dry isolated spots farmers hoed sugar beets, tended their barnyard fowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
The longer I study the cock, whether Black Spanish, White Leghorn, Dorking, or the common barnyard fowl, the more intimately I am acquainted with him, the less I am impressed with his character.
From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Claude A. Shepperson
