barnyard fowl
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The New York Mets — after reliever Frank Francisco called the rival Yankees "chickens" — have brought in a live barnyard fowl as a clubhouse pet, so now it's time to give it a name.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2012
Immediately everybody shuns him because ferrets are believed to massacre barnyard fowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
On dry isolated spots farmers hoed sugar beets, tended their barnyard fowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Are you a barnyard fowl?" he had asked.
From The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot Slumber-Town Tales by Smith, Harry L.
