pullets

Example Sentences

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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

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

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