How To Use Pullet In A Sentence
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The two yaller pullets have slipped you; the abigail mizzled to the funeral with your niece, and t'other dell must have smelt us, and hopped the twig.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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They are wonderful eggs, gloriously random, massive great things alongside tiny pullets' eggs, round ones, tall thin ones, brown, white, speckled.
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This lifting of the ban does not apply to point of lay pullets yet, said Norval.
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This historic chick, warm golden brown, with a short bill not yet black but pinkish orange, resembles a large downy pullet with no tail.
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Vell, I dudder peen a success as a coward und kept avay from dot pullet.
Frank Merriwell's Chums
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For those of you who don't know, a pullet is a young hen, not even a year old.
Archive 2007-08-01
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Even the furloughed convicts who boil down pine trees into turpentine in my vast forest have been receiving an extra pullet or two in their monthly rations.
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There are two main ways to acquire laying hens: as day-old chicks or as started pullets.
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Till they are four months old, the term chicken is applied to the young female; after that age they are called pullets, till they begin to lay, when they are called hens.
The Book of Household Management
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The previous month, you have picked a free electric refrigerator, day before admitted an egg, second days hatched six pullets .
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Next up for fans of beautiful creatures today, we have Dorcas the Silver Dorking pullet (a pullet is the term used for a young hen not yet in lay).
British Blogs
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The pullets had come with us in the ship from Tilbury and Tilly had fed them every day and let them out on the deck for exercise.
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At night, after I had eaten a cold pullet, I walked by brave moonshine, with three or four armed men to guard me, to Redriffe, it being a joy to my heart to think of the condition that I am now in, that people should of themselves provide this for me, unspoke to.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
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There was one unofficial poll taken by the Staley Milling Company in -- in Kansas, which had these things called pullet adams, which were a feed for -- for livestock.
The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
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They buy their chickens as (non-organic) pullets, almost ready to start laying.
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As well as individual success for the Ancona, Mr Addison's birds also won a string of prizes at the Staffordshire show in classes for Old English Game bantams, pullets and Weaten hens.
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At first, they lay what are called pullet eggs, which are very small.
Signs of the Times
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After about 10 weeks you can start feeding pullets (young hens) about 10 percent scratch grain (a mix of small grain and cracked corn) and 90 percent mash to lower the total protein a bit.
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“Charawk, chawk, chawk, chawk, chawk, chawk!” shrieked the hindmost hen, hit smartly by the watering-can Mr. Skelmersdale had thrown, and fluttered wildly over Mrs. Glue’s cottage and so into the doctor’s field, while the rest of those Gargantuan birds pursued the pullet, in possession of the child across the vicarage lawn.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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Arrived at the henroost (your neighbor's, not your own), you light a match and hold it under first one and then another pullet's nose until they are willing to go into that bag without making any trouble about it.
Sketches New And Old
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Some translations are trickier, like describing pullet, which is a hen less than a year old but appears on some menus as Sexually Inexperienced Chicken.
Archive 2007-04-01
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In fact the eggs are so local they're usually still warm from the rare breed pullets in the yard where I buy them
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Mick Greenwood took the award for the best hen class while the prize for the best stag went to Jake Walford and the pullet class winner was Dewi Jones.
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After a breakfast of Portsoy kippers, free-range poached pullet eggs - both typical of the quality produce served at the Mountview - we met up with Kevin.
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It is he that makes the sinner see all the deformity and filthiness that is within; it is he that pulleth off all the sinner's rags, and makes him see his naked and wretched condition; it is he that shows us the blindness of the mind, the stubbornness of the will, the disorderedness of the affections, the searedness of the conscience, the plague of our hearts, and the sin of our natures, and therein the desperateness of our state.
The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
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In the Poultry section there were classes for a pair of pullets White Wyandotte hatched the previous year, cock and hen any breed and goose or gander any breed.
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The curious white ale, or lober agolwhich, within the memory of man, used to exist in Devonshire and Cornwall, but which, even half a century ago, I have vainly sought therewas, I believe, drunk quite new; but then it was not pure malt and not hopped at all, but had eggs (pulletsperm in the brewage) and other foreign bodies in it.
Beer and Cider
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Fresh pullet eggs (White Leghorn Strain) were incubated to obtain the primitive streak stage of development.
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Indifference to long nail-sharp spikes did not of course guarantee that one returned with a pullet.
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It does not mean by this that a scrawny pullet is of more importance than family honor; it simply means that the man who steals a pullet is a cowardly thief, while the one who ignores the advances of a pretty woman is an incorrigible idiot.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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If I had been better organised and focussed, I would have bought some pullets.
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Potential difficulties were solved when he caused to be constructed for himself a fine, plump, hollow pullet out of papier mâché, the breast being composed of two lids.
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As well as individual success for the Ancona, Mr Addison's birds also won a string of prizes at the Staffordshire show in classes for Old English Game bantams, pullets and Weaten hens.
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Although some references explain its etymology as being from old French hutaudeau, meaning a pullet (a young hen), the derivation was in fact hétoudeau or hétourdeau which was a capon (a fattened cock fowl).
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They could provide forlorn pullets, certainly from the same farmyard with the lean kine of Egypt, and to these they could add, what was much better left unadded, a villainous species of unleavened bread, a sort of hoecake, not at all improved -- precisely like the run of travelers -- by leaving home and wandering in the Orient.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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Why Clay, I thought you knew a pullet is a bullet that has been pulled and can be reused.
Stupid Moves
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That's as rancid a set of entrails as was ever extracted from a Roman pullet.
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Mick Greenwood took the award for the best hen class while the prize for the best stag went to Jake Walford and the pullet class winner was Dewi Jones.
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Although some references explain its etymology as being from old French hutaudeau, meaning a pullet (a young hen), the derivation was in fact hétoudeau or hétourdeau which was a capon (a fattened cock fowl).
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It is therefore inappropriate of the authors to suggest that chickens store calcium as medullary bone ‘weeks, or months prior to the breeding season’ unless they are specifically referring to pullets.
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Congress has appropriated money to pay the farmers for their pullets and old hens.