pullet
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Pro tip: It begins with a six-pound kosher pullet, a hen less than a year old.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
The new cases mean that across the nation, farmers have had to kill about 22 million egg-laying chickens, 1.8 million broiler chickens, 1.9 million pullet and other commercial chickens, and 1.9 million turkeys.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Raising antibiotic-free birds ”forces us to go back to the basics and get things right from the start to the finish, from pullet flocks to broilers,” and that almost requires relearning chicken husbandry, Tabler said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
A month later, Cahill’s favorite pullet — Repecca, the one that followed her everywhere and sat on her lap — also began to crow.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2018
“Queenie, from now on if you fry a pullet this small, fry two.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
