Question on word from Western Virginia

[Barnhart]

self at TOWSE.COM,Net writes:

>A "biddy" is a "young bird especially of domestic fowl" [ref:
><http://www.hyperdic.net/dic/b/biddy.shtml#n01466271>] although
>some other references say a biddy == hen.

>Could you be hearing "biddy"?

DARE offers:

biddy=a young or newly hatched chicken.  The evidence reported is from
eastern Alabama, eastern Georgia, eastern South Carolina, Texas,
eastern Kentucky and North Carolina.

Also in DARE are entries for biddy-hen and biddy pen.  There is also
biddy-peck defined as hen-peck.

Regards,
David