pullets
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Cal-Maine Foods culled about 1.6 million laying hens and another 337,000 pullets, or young hens, after the detection.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
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.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
The farm owner again offered her two pullets in exchange, but Cahill couldn’t part with the bird.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
He joined the suit after buying pullets, or young chickens, from Diemand Farm, the only chicken farm in Massachusetts that still uses battery cages.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2016
Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon’s wishes.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
