Chicken nicknames?

[thoth1990]

How many different descriptive words for chickens do you know? Words like chickies, pullets, fowl, etc.
I've heard/read people calling them chooks but I have no clue how/where that may have originated, do you?

 

[Isabella7Storm5]

Chickens are called "dee dees" in my family thanks to my younger brother

 

[Sussex19]

I think chook is an Australian name, or at least thats what everyone calls them here.