What is the difference between fowl and poultry?
They are generally the same, being nouns for birds that are used for their flesh and/or eggs. Chickens, turkeys and wild ducks are fowl; eagles and hummingbirds are not. Fowl derives from Old English ‘fugol’, from Germanic. Poultry is Middle English from the Old French ‘ pouletrie.’ Fowl can encompass both wild (game) and domesticated birds, while poultry is used almost exclusively to describe the domesticated birds. — If you need a source, the Oxford Dictionary, Concise, 9th edition. If you cannot look it up for yourself or need a quick link in every answer so that you don’t have to do any research for yourself, you deserve every wrong answer you put your faith in. Just because something is on the Internet doesn’t mean it is true.
