Questions meanings and differences of chicken words

[DobieLover]

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@featherhead007

Another question. Until what age do you say chick, and when do you start to say pullet or cockerel?
E.g. should I say young pullets with 2.5 months? Or can I still name them chicks til they lay eggs.

I'm not sure if it's correct but I stop calling them chicks when they're off the heat and fully feathered. They are then pullets and cockerels until one year of age.

 

[featherhead007]

My birds became pullets, after being fully feathered and hopping out of the brooder.
They became hens, when they laid their first eggs.

 

[featherhead007]

Another language question:
My soil is a mix of two types of clay ground. In Dutch we have two names for the two types of clay:
One clay is a river clay you can use for making pottery (when clean) and making bricks in a oven. The other clay you can use for clay stucco and clay paint.
I have been thinking that adobe might be a good word for the clay stucco soil. But google translate doesn't translate this word.

All this talk about clay, dirt, soil, I don't like talking dirty.