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

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

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