Anatomy of the Cock

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The fighting cock has a vocabulary of its own — a precise, almost technical language in which the bird’s parts are named, counted, and judged. The vocabulary is centuries old, and it is the common property of every poultry culture that has bred the bird seriously: the Persian and the Indian, the English and the Japanese, the American and the Filipino all use essentially the same terms.

Vocabulary on The Gamecock Codex

Anatomy of the Cock