pullicide

Noun

1. The killing of a chicken.
   • Verily, I put myself in mind of Gay's sick fox, who, after preaching to his young kin against pullicide, cries, […] A chicken, too, might do me good. - 1866, Horace Walpole, “1338. To Sir Horace Mann”, in Peter...
   • […] was also given to "gallicide," "pullicide," and every kind of 'cide, and a good deal of Warre's correspondence is full of apologies for the misdeeds of both dogs. - 1922, Charles Robert Leslie FLetcher, Edmond...
   • In one of the more broadly comic touches, for example, Cicero illustrates the Stoic claim that all crimes are equal by equating parricide with untimely pullicide: "And the man who strangles a poultry-cock when it is not...