barnyard fowls

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You are also instructed to procure for Mr. Merrick's use a good Jersey cow, some pigs and a dozen or so barnyard fowls.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

Now and then, in open spaces in the path, I came upon shallow circular depressions where the bird had been dusting, an operation in which I had often seen our barnyard fowls complacently engaged.

From A Rambler's lease by Torrey, Bradford

Their calls are few in number and have little of that conversational quality which we note in those of our ordinary barnyard fowls.

From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate

There were nine altogether in the brood—eight of them good, honest, barnyard fowls.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Hubbard, Elbert

At once I was struck by the resemblance of these birds to ordinary barnyard fowls, but Master Pope explained that they were woodcock.

From Fibble, D.D. by Sarg, Tony