What's the difference between pullet and young?

Pullet


Definition:

  • (n.) A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pullets were housed in battery brooder pens with raised wire floors.
  • (2) At necropsy of an 8-week-old pullet a 0.75 X 5.0 cm.
  • (3) Two experiments were conducted to compare beak treatment effects on pullets of three genetic stocks.
  • (4) Many of the hens dying from the disease are younger and no pullets had been planned to replace them yet, Elam said.
  • (5) Mortality from cannibalism was absent among pullets kept in experimental floor pens.
  • (6) Performance criteria were averaged over all trials and used to determine per cage returns ($) above feed and pullet rearing costs (irrespective of fixed costs) and per cage profits (gross returns minus total costs) for the four treatment combinations.
  • (7) Pullets were full-fed for the first 8 wk of life, then placed on a skip-a-day program with breeder-recommended feed allocations.
  • (8) Vaccinated commercial pullets were protected against morbidity, death, and egg-production decline at either peak of lay (25 wks old) or at 55 wks old.
  • (9) This was found to be the method of choice in coccidiosis control in replacement pullets in the semi-arid subtropical climate of Rhodesia.
  • (10) Six hundred pullets (18-wk-old) were equally and randomly allocated to the LP and NP treatments.
  • (11) The infusion of corticosterone significantly increased the plasma concentrations of this steroid over that observed in the control pullets and was not related to the dose of PMSG.
  • (12) Urolithiasis was induced in an experimental group of Single Comb White Leghorn pullets by feeding them layer ration and exposing them to nephrotrophic Gray strain infectious bronchitis virus (IBV).
  • (13) Endogenous pituitary glands of broiler pullets that received high density capsules (1.2 X 10(6) cells) were observed 30 days after fiber implantation at 2 weeks of age.
  • (14) Two experiments were conducted with laying pullets between 32 and 47 weeks of age.
  • (15) Broiler breeder pullets were vaccinated at 20 to 24 weeks of age with an inactivated, oil emulsion vaccine containing the CO8 strain of avian reovirus.
  • (16) Data from 30 published experiments have been analysed to examine the relationships between environmental temperature and the long-term, adapted responses of laying pullets, measured as metabolisable energy intake, egg output and body weight change.
  • (17) Agonistic behaviors were not different between BT and IN pullets.
  • (18) Replacement pullets which had been found infected with Salmonella were treated with antibiotics for 12 days, moved to a clean house by the 11th day and given 2 treatments with a competitive exclusion (CE) preparation on the 13th and 15th day.
  • (19) The production of double-yolked eggs and the duration of the rapid growth phase of yolks were measured in parental lines of White Plymouth Rock pullets and their crosses over 30 d, commencing with the day of first egg.
  • (20) This is the first report of cryptosporidiosis in rearing pullets in the Netherlands and also the first time that the combination of this infection with Marek's disease is mentioned.

Young


Definition:

  • (superl.) Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
  • (superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
  • (superl.) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
  • (n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (2) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
  • (3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
  • (4) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
  • (5) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
  • (6) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
  • (7) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
  • (8) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
  • (9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (10) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
  • (11) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
  • (12) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
  • (13) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
  • (14) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
  • (15) The mean value of peak Vcf showed no significant difference among young and elderly groups except for the group in the 30's which showed significant (p less than 0.05) difference between other groups.
  • (16) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
  • (17) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
  • (18) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
  • (19) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
  • (20) The effect of dietary fluoride (F) on nephrocalcinosis was studied in young, female rats.