cockerel

Pure-breed gamecocks do not show white feathers and so its presence indicates that the cockerel is an inferior cross-breed.

Coq means rooster (US or cock/cockerel in the UK) and is a symbol of France maybe this has something to do w/ it.

No one needs a cockerel to wake you up, when alarm clocks have been invented.

You do not need a cockerel but do expect hens to crow after laying.

That might be a regional difference: I've heard cock or cockerel plenty of times in British English.

Suckling pig, also Cornish game hen, which is not a game bird and is equally likely to be a cockerel as a pullet.

My favorite flock composition was a base of all female birds, add in a cockerel and see how he and the hens interact.

But hens reared in the presence of a cockerel may well be fertilised, and thus viable, and thus not acceptable for very strict ovo-lacto-vegetarians.

If you find a good match leave him there and then as new male chickens are born watch how they interact with the current cockerel.

A farmer friend named their cockerel after my grandad Austin.

As a symbol of cowardice, the white feather supposedly[1] comes from cockfighting and the belief that a cockerel sporting a white feather in its tail is likely to be a poor fighter.

Too early in the summer and you're asking for fox trouble, and also the neighbours used to complain the cockerel would crow when it opened too early (sunrise can be before 4am in midsummer).

Also, the use of "rooster" in the US instead of "cock" or "cockerel" which is still common in UK/Commonwealth English.