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pullet

noun as in chicken

noun as in poultry

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Pro tip: It begins with a six-pound kosher pullet, a hen less than a year old.

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The fenced pastures for the bulls were now overrun with thousands of young stags and pullets, pecking at the trail of food he threw out from the golf cart.

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Raising antibiotic-free birds ”forces us to go back to the basics and get things right from the start to the finish, from pullet flocks to broilers,” and that almost requires relearning chicken husbandry, Tabler said.

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I squeal, I can’t help it, and run outside to the courtyard to taste him in private like a cat with a stolen pullet.

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Critics say that backyard flock owners’ demand for day-old pullets, or female chicks, leads to more cockerels, or male chicks, being culled or slipping through to eventually wind up in need of homes or dumped.

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