pullet

nuorikko, alle vuoden ikäinen kana

nuori kana A young hen, especially one less than a year old. (defdate)
1646, (w), Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11:

They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.

The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself ... attending the door.

he recommended that the patient ... should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.

The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets ….