poultryman
Americannoun
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poultrymen
plural
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a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
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a poultry dealer, especially one who sells chickens at retail for cooking.
noun
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Also called: chicken farmer. a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
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a dealer in poultry, esp one who sells the dressed carcasses
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Then a Jersey poultryman brought a sick chicken to the poultry pathologist at Rutgers for a diagnosis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Six years ago a short, swart poultryman named Paul Onorato decided to do something about a fowl-killing device which would instantly stun and immobilize the victim.
From Time Magazine Archive
A hulking, ruddy-faced Michigander with a gift for promotion, Hannah was born in Grand Rapids, the son of a Unitarian poultryman and an Irish Catholic schoolmarm.
From Time Magazine Archive
This experiment can be varied by placing hens in individual coops and setting before each weighed portions of every food in the poultryman supply man's catalogue.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
The study of these diseases is good for the poultryman, it gives his mind exercise.
From The Dollar Hen by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
Only about 475,000 chicks came directly off the four Wallace farms last year; the others were raised by breeders on a royalty basis or hatched from eggs sold to poultrymen at fancy prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
They belong by family and tradition in the rolling Delaware Valley country, and as poultrymen, dairymen, sheepmen and general farmers they are pursuing the only profession they know.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearly a million Eastern dairymen and poultrymen anxiously peered into their feed bins.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the West Coast and in Hawaii there was a shortage of Japanese chicken-sex-determiners, who used to help U.S. poultrymen by deciding which chick was a pullet and which a cockerel.
From Time Magazine Archive
The following schedule is followed by many successful poultrymen as a means of distributing their time to the best advantage during the day.
From A Living from the Land by William B. Duryee
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