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.

From Washington Post

Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize "for the pullets."

From New York Times

It was a pullet egg, that is, an egg from a young hen that had only just started laying.

From Washington Post

The breed classes included pullets, which are six months old or less, laying hens and exhibition birds.

From Washington Times

The number of broilers, hens and pullets raised in the valley represents more than 65 percent of those in the state, and more than 90 percent of the state’s turkeys are there.

From Washington Post