Farm Animals for Hangman 🐄

Clues for every answer

A one-line clue for every answer, easy to hard. They're the same clues the game's 💡 Hint shows, so you can read them out when you run your own game.

Cow

Adult female of cattle, especially one that has had a calf; cattle are commonly raised for dairy.

Pig

Hoofed farm mammal, also called swine, that digs for food with its snout and cools off by wallowing in mud.

Hen

Female chicken kept for her eggs; one bred for laying can produce over 300 eggs a year.

Duck

Waterbird with a usually broad bill, farmed for its eggs, meat and soft down feathers.

Goat

Close relative of the sheep and one of the first animals tamed; its milk is often made into cheese.

Sheep

Farm animal whose wool is the most widely used animal fibre, usually harvested by shearing.

Horse

One-toed hoofed farm mammal that can sleep both standing up and lying down.

Lamb

A young sheep, especially one that is less than nine months old.

Calf

A young domestic cow or bull; it usually stands up within a few minutes of being born.

Foal

A young horse or donkey up to one year old; a male is a colt and a female is a filly.

Barn

Farm building whose name comes from Old English words meaning a storage place for barley.

Hay

Grass or other plants that are cut, dried and stored to feed animals such as cattle and horses.

Ram

A male sheep, occasionally called a tup; in horned breeds, horn size helps decide rank in the flock.

Ewe

An adult female sheep; its name is pronounced just like the word "you".

Turkey

Large farm fowl whose main varieties descend from birds raised in central Mexico; its chicks are poults.

Mare

An adult female horse, usually over three years old; she carries her foal for about 11 months.

Bull

Adult male of cattle; in horned breeds its horns tend to be thicker and shorter than a cow's.

Sow

A female pig; spelled the same as the word for planting seeds, but said differently.

Hog

Another name for a pig, especially an adult; also means a greedy person who will not share.

Drake

A male duck; in old poems, a word spelled the same way meant a dragon.

Donkey

Working animal descended from the African wild ass; an adult female is called a jenny.

Chicken

Farm bird descended from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia, kept mostly for its eggs and meat.

Rooster

Adult male chicken, especially in North America; it makes a loud call known as crowing.

Piglet

Young swine not yet fully grown; a mother sow grunts to signal each stage of feeding to her litter.

Stable

Building where working animals, especially horses, are kept, usually divided into stalls.

Gosling

A young goose; the word can also describe a silly, inexperienced young person.

Cattle

Large tamed hoofed animals kept as livestock, divided into over 1,000 recognised breeds.

Paddock

Small enclosure for horses, often near the stables; also an area beside a motor racing track.

Trough

Long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals; also the low point of a wave.

Pigsty

Small outdoor enclosure, often bare dirt and mud, for raising swine; also an informal word for a very untidy place.

Farmer

Person who works in agriculture, raising crops or livestock for food or raw materials.

Fleece

The hair or wool of a sheep; also the name for a warm, woolly jacket.

Cockerel

A young male chicken; a nursery rhyme published in 1765 imitates its call in its chorus.

Pony

Small horse type, often with a thick coat, mane and tail; its name comes from old French for 'little foal'.

Alpaca

South American camelid bred mainly for its wool, often confused with its relative the llama.

Heifer

A young female of cattle, especially one over a year old that has not yet had a calf.

Stallion

Adult male horse that has not been gelded; it may have a thicker, 'cresty' neck than a mare.

Nanny Goat

Name, first used in the 18th century, for an adult female of the farm animal closely related to sheep; also called a doe.

Billy Goat

Name, first used in the 19th century, for an adult male of the farm animal closely related to sheep; also called a buck.

Mule

Offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; hardier and longer-lived than a horse.

Shepherd

Person who tends, feeds or guards a flock of ewes, rams and lambs, one of the world's oldest jobs.

Livestock

Farm animals such as cattle, sheep and goats, raised for labour and for products like eggs, milk and wool.

Farmhouse

Main home building in a rural or agricultural setting, sometimes joined on to one or more barns.

Scarecrow

Figure often shaped like a person, dressed in old clothes and put in fields to keep birds off crops.

Agriculture

Planting and harvesting crops and raising livestock; its food surpluses let people live in cities.

Harvester

A machine that gathers in the crop; the 'combine' kind does reaping, threshing and gathering in one go.

Pasture

Grassy land used for grazing, typically grazed through the summer by horses, cattle or sheep.

Poultry

Domesticated birds such as chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese, kept for eggs, feathers or meat.

Silage

Animal fodder made from green crops preserved by fermentation, then fed to cattle and sheep.

Veterinary

Describes the medical or surgical treatment of animals, especially domestic and farm animals.

Smallholding

A little farm, usually supporting a single family with a mix of cash crops and home-grown food.

Threshing

Loosening the edible grain from the straw it is attached to: the step that comes after reaping.

Hayloft

The upper storey of a barn, used for storing dried grass to feed animals.

Milking Parlour

Dairy farm building that cows are brought into, often a row at a time; in Australia it is called the cowshed.

Cattle Grid

Metal bars over a dip in a road that animals are reluctant to walk on, but vehicles can easily cross.

Shire Horse

English draught breed that has held world records for the largest and tallest; it once towed canal barges.

Highland Cow

Hardy Scottish cattle breed with long horns and a long shaggy coat, able to withstand harsh weather.

Aberdeen Angus

Scottish breed of small cattle, naturally without horns and solid black or red in colour.

Gloucester Old Spot

Gentle English pig breed, mostly white with black markings, also nicknamed the Orchard Pig.

Shetland Pony

Small, hardy breed with a dense coat, once used to carry peat and seaweed and now ridden by children.