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 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
Sherri McGarry, an official, said salmonella was found in feed given to young birds, known as pullets, that were raised by a DeCoster facility for use at both its own farms and at Hillandale Farms.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2010
So when Grandpa built his brick store in 1892 he put a great big chickenhouse in back, and every Friday Cudn Hope shipped hens, roosters, and frying-size pullets to Athens or Atlanta on the train.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
