hen-family

Updated: May 22, 2025

You may often see the Turkeys, Pheasants, Peacocks, and other birds of this Hen-family, scratching up the gravel; and you know, I daresay, that grain-eating birds have a little mill inside them called a gizzard, which grinds their food for them. Birds of prey have no gizzards, because their food does not need to be ground before they can digest it.

Caroline Pridham - Twilight and Dawn: Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation