Chicks

Chicks refers to the babies of birds. Alone, it usually means either chicken chicks or as a homonym derived from the word that denotes young women/teenage girls. Chicks as a chicken are stereotyped to be yellow, however they can come in black and mottled and other colors. In some places they are dyed different bright colors and sold. As baby birds they refer to fledglings and younger. Its mostly applicable as a parental term (the chick of a parent bird) or as younger birds still in the nest. For example, a mother bird feeds her chicks. Chicks are important to American children because they are often featured in young child books. This includes both chicken chicks and bird chicks.
Category:Animals important to American children