Roosters are best suited to stews and slow cookers, where they can gently tenderize over hours. A fantastic slow-cooked option is coq au vin, a French dish whose name means "rooster in wine." To get the most from the whole animal, try making chicken stock from rooster meat and bones. You can even eat a rooster's comb.

Hen: an adult female chicken. Pullet: a young female chicken less than a year old. In the poultry industry, a pullet is a sexually immature chicken less than 22 weeks of age. Rooster: a fertile adult male chicken, especially in North America.

A chicken and waffles restaurant is set to hatch a new location in Enfield. Roosters Chicken & Waffles will open its seventh Connecticut location at 169 Elm St. in Enfield, restaurant management wrote on Facebook.