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Definition of Cockerels
1. cockerel [n] - See also: cockerel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cockerels
Literary usage of Cockerels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poultry Culture: How to Raise, Manage, Mate and Judge Thoroughbred Fowls by Isaac Kimbal Felch (1902)
"Young cockerels are often attacked by older birds and their plumage marred, in
which case the feathers so injured grow slim and longer than the others. ..."
2. Impotence and Sterility: With Aberrations of the Sexual Function and Sex by George Frank Lydston (1917)
"In a number of experiments in "exchange" transplantations in both unrelated and
related young cockerels, we apparently have met with but one success in ..."
3. The Practical Poultry Keeper by Lewis Wright (1904)
"These dark Brahmas will also illustrate for us the further question we must
consider, of breeding for cockerels or pullets distinctively. ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1877)
"In cockerels we considered tbo fi'St-prize one deserving of Lis honours; he ia
good in every point Second was an inexplicable award; the bird is long-lentil ..."
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