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

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 • 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

It looked to Johnny as if the dog fox had eaten a couple of fat pullets, and had a third in his mouth.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes