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CONT: When the young had grown to fryer size, the cockerels (young roosters) might be put in the fattening coop for future meals, saving a few of the most promising for breeding stock. Selected pullets (young hens) were saved for laying hens.
CONT: Of several large gobblers, already fat, which had been put up in the large fattening coop to be flavored by the peanuts so abundant, one was missed.