pullet
Example Sentences
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Pro tip: It begins with a six-pound kosher pullet, a hen less than a year old.
From Washington Post
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
“My dear pullets,” replied Orddu, “you still don’t understand, do you? Evil? Why, bless your little thumping hearts, we aren’t evil.”
From Literature
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.
From Washington Times
“Queenie, from now on if you fry a pullet this small, fry two.”
From Literature
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