Sentence examples for that a hen from inspiring English sources

This is the idea that a hen is merely an egg's way of making another egg.

More rivals mean it is more likely that a hen has mated already.

Hen-day egg number was calculated as the total number of eggs laid in the cage divided by the total number of days that a hen was present in the cage (days are summed for all hens that were placed in the cage), and then multiplied by the maximum number of days the production period lasted.

Be aware that a hen will become broody on its own, usually in spring or summer.

The Century Magazine reported on it in 1898, explaining that a "hen-man" lost all interest in life except for his chickens: he "may have been an ardent admirer of Shakespeare... but now he reads to himself 'Farm Poultry' or 'The Care of Hens.' " Eventually, crooks and swindlers and even P. T. Barnum infiltrated the trade.

Why reduce that opportunity to a hen party?

"We haven't tried not trying to escape; that might work," a hen suggests.

Heshowe a henny-cock, the only breed of a fighting cock that looks like a hen, and the only bird of its kind in this country.

A fisherman might be buried in a coffin shaped like a crab, a canoe or a lobster, someone powerful in a coffin resembling a leopard and a mother in one that looks like a hen.

Egg location can be used to determine the nests that hens prefer, but it does not indicate whether the design of that nest satisfies a hen's nesting motivation.

One might assume that if a hen is moved from 68 square inches to 144 square inches she will feel like she's gained something.