Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.

American Author

Mary Berry

I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting.

British Chef

Mark Twain

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

American Writer

Coco Chanel

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

French Designer

Margaret Thatcher

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

English Leader

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

French Painter

H. L. Mencken

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Aeschylus

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Greek Poet

Benjamin Franklin

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

American Politician

J. R. R. Tolkien

English Novelist

Use 'hen' for female birds, not for other animals.

Animals Only

'Hen' refers to female birds in general, not just chickens.

Not Always Chickens

'Mother hen' implies caring and protective behavior, often used metaphorically.

Mothering Nature

Calling a woman 'hen' informally can be negative, suggesting she's old or gossipy.

Slightly Derogatory

Be careful using 'hen' for a woman; it's outdated and can offend.

Cautious Use

To 'henpeck' someone is a humorous way of saying a woman dominates her partner.

Henpecked Humor

'Hen party' is a British term for a women-only gathering before marriage.

Women’s Celebrations

In the US, 'hen party' is equivalent to a 'bachelorette party'.

Bachelorette Parallel

The term 'hen party' carries fun and celebratory connotations in the UK.

Cultural Context

 Well, the thing is, I was born loving animals, and the most important thing was, I had a very supportive mother. She didn't get mad when she found earthworms in my bed, she just said they better be in the garden. And she didn't get mad when I disappeared for four hours and she called the police, and I was sitting in a hen house,

Every day you live, you...

 that can be raised by band-tailed pigeon parents, and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years. You can do the same thing, as the costs come down, for the Carolina parakeet, for the great auk, for the heath hen, for the ivory-billed woodpecker,

Stewart Brand: The dawn...

 fosters a healthy ecosystem if the kids are racing out the door first thing in the morning and they've you know I'm not finished all of their food I can take those leftovers out to the hens they're getting a good breakfast there's not a

Urban Gardeners Grow...

 treatment and I had that money in my pocket that day but that money was needed a few days before so I lived in Cartagena for two and a half years 1998 with my husband and my two baby boys Encarta hen I don't know if you've been

Lowering the world’s...

 elephants can smell landmines like rats and dogs that are used to help demine areas then elephants have a very powerful sense of smell so my hunch is and hen and early evidence suggests that elephants can detect landmines

Landmine-Sniffing...

 As a good Brazilian myself, I too have a strong connection to nature. Since my early years, I learned from my parents a deep love, respect, and admiration for all living things. I still miss my pet hen today.

Juliana Machado...

 drongos feeding on insects are the white weight go about feeding on the fruit from the trees any alum call anything that I think could help me of where I am currently would be the guinea hens or the guinea

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 to artificially incubate chicken eggs by placing them in baskets over hot ashes. That freed up hens to continue laying daily, and what had been a royal delicacy or religious offering became a common meal.

History through the eyes...

 humans to tell penguins apart it may be hard for even hen gwin's to tell themselves apart they identify each other by calls however state-of-the-art technology can help researchers out

Penguins Cutely Count...

 vocal cop bowerbirds have been encouraged to create colorful gardens generations of hens have become connoisseurs of art bestowing their