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Definition of Molters
1. molter [n] - See also: molter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Molters
Literary usage of Molters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Productive Poultry Husbandry: A Complete Text Dealing with the Principles by Harry Reynolds Lewis (1913)
"The late molters are usually the heavy producers; therefore, in making the last
selection in the fall, birds which are rather ragged at that time will ..."
2. Productive Poultry Husbandry: A Complete Text Dealing with the Principles by Harry Reynolds Lewis (1919)
"... well-balanced ration throughout July and August, and allow them to molt
naturally; it will be found that some specimens are early molters and some late. ..."
3. Documents of the Senate of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1916)
"to lay so early, or produce so many winter eggs a* the late molters. Then why
should we keep the early molters to board through the late summer and fall, ..."
4. Poultry Production by William Adams Lippincott (1921)
"those individuals which molt late in the fall also lay late and usually lay more
eggs during the year than the early molters. It is of course the female ..."
5. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"1), although some late breeders, late molters and late fledglings may still be
encountered and differentiated on the basis of all criteria. ..."
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