cockerels

OK…you know how the boy chickens are called cockerels or cocks?

Chickens and eggs..... Chickenlady 2007

OK…you know how the boy chickens are called cockerels or cocks?

Archive 2007-01-01 Chickenlady 2007

Scotty and I flared and raged like young cockerels, until the harpooner poured another round of drinks to enable us to forgive and make up.

Chapter 6 2010

This sturdy breed of poultry was then popular for meat production on local farms, and it was rumoured that cockerels were used by some for cockfighting.

Country diary: St Mellion, Tamar Valley 2011

They talked some more of Firdaws, of the doomed beauty of the cockerels, strutting around the orchard like little emperors.

Polly Samson | The Man Who Fell 2011

By afternoon the sun is full out – lighting the distant china clay landscape to the east and sparkling on the barley twist poles, mirrors, brightly painted horses and cockerels of the steam gallopers.

Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall 2011

"What ever happened to all those cockerels, eagles, goats ... and other assorted domesticated beasts that once were led around the touchline before a game?" wondered one commenter, who insisted on the right for your club to have a real live mascot, as well as "to have post-match interviews conducted with fans in the background gurning and v-signing rather than sponsors' logos".

Readers are so right: football fans need a bill of rights | Marina Hyde 2011

It finds politics in pictures where none is apparent – still lifes of crockery, jubilant cockerels.

Picasso: Peace and Freedom 2010

For the principal meat dish, being watched as it warmed by their affronted maid, Connie had sacrificed two of their older hens and three cockerels for a mess of chicken fricassee in the French style.

The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

Factions pecked at one another like young cockerels in a never-ending and foolish roundabout of posturing for place and recognition.

In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010