This wasn't said to me, but I over heard a couple of young boys (ages 7 or 8) talking at the farm show:
Boy #1: It's a chicken!!! It's a chicken!!!!!'
Boy #2 (feeling smart): It's not a chicken. It's a rooster!
I also had a pen that had either a cockerel or a rooster on it. I forget why, but for some reason I was stating my chicken obsession by showing one of my friends the pen saying, "See, I have a pen with a chicken on it!" Her reply, "It's not a chicken. It's a rooster."
I can't say I blame them, I made that mistake once... I asked someone if they only had chickens. She replied asking if I meant turkeys or geese. I was like, "No, do you have any roosters?" Of course I DID know that hens were the females, it's just not something I was fresh on. For example, since I am not into cattle I thought that a steer was a breed not too long ago...![]()
Some people don't realize the difference between a Heifer (female cow and a Herford (breed of cow like angus/Jersey).