Sentence examples for brood hen from inspiring English sources

There appeared to be little likelihood that Mr. Eisenhower's plane might clip the tree, the secret service is as overprotective as a brood hen.

Many species immediately abandon the eggs; some remain with the clutch and certainly appear to be protecting them from external danger; and a very few actually assume the role of a brood hen, maintaining a body temperature measurably higher than the surroundings and presumably assisting in incubation.

The pair specialize in brood hens, incubating millions of eggs a year into hatchlings for sale to other farmers who want to produce eggs or broilers.

For this reason, predation is a major cause of loss of eggs, nestlings and the brooding hen, especially for birds that build open-cup nests.

Separate the brooding hen and her eggs from the other chickens.

Some bowls with their lids in the form of brooding hens were Staffordshire & meant to hold candies.

A circle of shaggy sugar pines stood around it, like brooding hens, and gathered in the last of the day's warmth".

The noon cutoff provides additional protection for brooding hens because most do not leave their nests to forage for food until that time.

Raised in rural Wisconsin, my cherished childhood memories are of gardening with my father, climbing into rabbit cages, swimming with baby ducks in a kiddie pool, milking goats and checking for eggs in cool mornings under warm, brooding hens.

I chose my bird from the brood of hens scratching around in the garden.

At Hag's, herds of stags bump sexlessly into screeching broods of hens.