barnyard fowl

Today, the feathers that float down fashion’s runways come from domesticated birds and less vivid barnyard fowl — bred not for style but food, with feathers as a byproduct — or are clipped from live ostriches, who grow new ones.

“So they kept you on litter like a barnyard fowl. Tell me, boy, did you learn to cackle?”

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.

A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

It is as domestic and tame as a barnyard fowl, which, wandering in the wildest woodland, could never be mistaken as game.