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

Cahill was legally allowed to have roosters but did not want them, so she called the chicken farm where she’d bought her birds, and the owner gave her two pullets in exchange for the rooster.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2018

Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize "for the pullets."

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 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

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