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
Crystal Cahill of Great Meadows, N.J., twice took advantage of that sort of deal after buying what she was told were four 7-week-old pullets in November.
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
Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon’s wishes.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
