0 a young chicken for eating, or the meat from a young chicken: --
I think I look pretty good, considering I'm no spring chicken.
Thus, the main sources of poultry meat a hundred years ago (spring chickens and stewing hens) have both been entirely supplanted by meat-type broiler chickens.
Thus, the main sources of poultry meat 100 years ago (spring chickens and stewing hens) have both been entirely supplanted by meat-type broiler chickens.
But it is something like living upon day-old chicks when one might be waiting for spring chickens.
Amongst the varieties of poultry recently purchased are single poussin, double poussin, spring chickens, roasting chickens and capons.
It is sometimes also called spring chicken, although the term spring chicken usually refers to chickens weighing 750 850.
