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That is not the case with egg-laying hens, which have been bred to put all their energy toward laying.

In chickens, the hen controls whether the resulting chick is male or female.

All the eggs produced by hens sexed with this technology are sold under the Respeggt brand, free from chick culling.

File this under, “Sure, I’ll watch your hens,” said the fox.

You can look at the number of hens laying eggs in this country.

He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.

“[W]hen the going got tough, his economic team picked Wall Street,” Warren said.

He eventually brings his wife and children over, and later he manages a hen and rabbit farm.

He described her then as “a mother hen who took care of everyone.”

“[W]hen a novelist finds an audience, even a small one … the relation is based on recognition, not misunderstanding,” he writes.

Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.

What can be prettier than a brood of chickens with a good motherly hen, like the one in this picture!

“Well, Hen knows how to kill snakes, but maybe she is a poor judge of character,” laughed Amy.

The storm hath passed;I hear the birds rejoice; the hen,Returned into the road again,Her cheerful notes repeats.

Their manner of talking has been compared to the clucking of a hen, and by the Dutch to the "gobbling of a turkeycock."