| 单词 | hen |
| 例句 | “There he is,” Cate said, clucking like a proud mother hen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Oh, don’t pay me no never mind. I fuss and peck like a cranky old hen.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I was in the back with a wicker picnic hamper and also a couple of chickens—laying hens—which were legitimately being taken to another farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He headed for the store, nodding at the four men sitting outside on the porch, and side-stepping the white hens that were strolling about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In some ways it had reminded me of a mother hen hovering over her young in a rainstorm. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “This will have to do. Halibut is rare as hen’s teeth today.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Can you imagine your father selling you for a tablecloth, a hen, and a handful of cigarettes? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “Let’s go see if the hen laid more eggs!” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Nest, eggs, and hens were all one package, wrapped in a vivid, slender twine of brilliant green. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t hep it; I said, ‘Love Simpson, you remind me of a crowin’ hen.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Maybe my hands were cold but the hen began to flap when I reached for her egg. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z A hen had scratched out a hollow and carpeted its walls and floor with dry grass. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He spent the whole evening absorbed in thought, ruminating on the story of the fox and the hens, and perhaps that was the night the boy began to become a man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow it brought to mind the time I helped Smiley Snodgrass blow up a hen with a bicycle pump. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In the backyard, the hens clucked and murmured as they scratched for bugs or pecked at the last dirty crumbs of wet cornmeal that Grandpa had put out for them. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z One of the listeners cackled like a hen and was quieted. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Around the barn in the hen house she found Edward, egg basket still empty, kneeling before the chickens. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “One day,” Nhamo said when she had recovered, “a hen belonging to the junior wife wandered into the senior wife’s hut and broke three pots. ‘ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As we passed from the barn, we heard the muffled and frightened moo of the cow, the frantic squealing of pigs, and the rustle and cackle of hens and roosters. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “And some members of Parliament would fuss like wet hens. No, I predict a cold winter will dispatch most of them in a natural way.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day at Sunday dinner, Papa had hardly finished serving the baked hen when my mother said, real pleasant, “I wonder who played the piano for the Methodists today.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z By then I understood how it was with roosters and hens, of course, and cows and dogs and cats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Even the hens and ducks came, and were at pains not to tread on the chalk marks. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Who will take care of my small house that sits like a hen on her nest? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The hen buried her head into her feathers the way a turtle crawls into a shell. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z A coot hen on Mr. Bender’s side disturbs the water every few minutes, diving for something on the bottom. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Papa blushed and said, “Well, uh, let’s see, son. It’s kind of like the way hens lay eggs and then biddies hatch out of the eggs.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Seth moved from the hen cage to a small piano in the corner of the room. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z "Tell me the hen doesn't peck when the rooster crows," said Chucha with heavy sarcasm. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z From then on, I decided, w hen I saw trouble I would just walk to the other side of the street. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia paced the length of the bathroom like an upset hen, her open trench coat flapping behind her like a large wing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “They’re scarce as hen’s teeth. Remember to tie a yellow cloth to the front railing. This coffeehouse is officially closed.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so pretty, so elaborately basket-woven among hen and egg, we did not at first understand what we saw. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sissy brought Francie a present, a corncob pipe that you blew into and a rubber hen popped up and swelled over the pipe bowl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whistling women and crowing hens never come to no good end.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been grown in the hoop house where the laying hens spend the winter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We ran outside, some of us falling as we crowded through the narrow door and gathered around our teachers for safety and comfort, like chicks around a mother hen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As he did every morning, he went into the kitchen for his breakfast and saw a hen pecking crumbs from the floor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Adam was trying to arrange the letter’s information in his mind, and it was as restless as a setting hen scrounging into the nest. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "I would sooner face any number of swords than sit helpless like this, pretending to enjoy the company of this flock of frightened hens." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Mama took a pencil and marked thirteen eggs with X. We kept those in the nest, and when the hens laid fresh ones, we took those for eating. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the children and the hens walked around. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the listeners cackled like a hen and was quieted. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Over in his hen yard, he pointed out three scraggly hens. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z This was just as well, for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z No, he spread the wheat so far and so carefully that the hens couldn’t find some of it at all. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “We were looking at the hen,” I said in a small voice. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The hens paid her no mind, seeing that she came with a crooked stick and no feed. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Big Ma was beating the yolkiness out of the few eggs our hens managed to lay. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “It’s either foxes or a Blood-Suckin’ Bugbear, an’ I need the headmaster’s permission ter put a charm around the hen coop.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He turned to me and said, “Still have about six minutes. Maybe five. Let’s grab all the hens we can. No time for the eggs.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “The hens are a little old. We don’t have any pullets. The weasels got the baby chicks this year.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I just hated w hen I was the one that had to ask. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The sack had a drawstring, which they pulled snugly around the hen’s neck so her head could stick out. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “I like this, patron. In union there is strength, as Father Jose Dulce Maria says. If the hens can overcome the fox, what about human beings?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At Gachet’s, Vincent takes his godson around the yard, introducing him to the eight cats, three dogs, hens, rabbits, ducks, and pigeons. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “But what about the rooster? Don’t he have something to do with it? Bluford says the rooster does something when he lights on a hen. What—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Under such circumstances I would ordinarily feel justified in having one of the older hens for dinner—but how could I clean it? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It was not at all like Market Day, with its sounds of laughter, conversation, and commerce: good-natured bargaining, the squealing of pigs, the motherly cluck of hens with their cheep ing broods. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z W hen you saw' his red hair, it wasn’t hard to figure his name. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Fern did her best to keep the fussiest hens away from the cows, Butter especially. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I would have to get in first and wait until a hen decided to come in and lay her egg. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The nearest switch was the twig Fern used to scratch the message that was supposed to save her hens. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When the stores ran out, and they’d eaten the last of their sheep and goats, they ate even the laying hens. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I was proud he wasn’t lazy like his own daddy, who spent the summer days on his porch swatting flies and even had him a pet hen to peck up the dead ones. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Before the first week was out, all the hens had bloody heads and bare, pimply backs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I ran over to hen She swayed a bit but said, “I’m fine.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The hens spilled out of the doorway and started pecking at the grass with little chortles of glee. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z A brown hen sat on the nest, her wings fluffed around the eggs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Two days later, when the rebel army of tiny soldiers had passed through Kilanga and we could go home again, that is exactly how we found our hens. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two eggs and a laying hen” and “Push, you cow” were the words that occurred to her, but when Beetle spoke them they did not have the same effect as when the midwife did. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Muriel extended both hands over the flustered hen and began softly chanting indecipherable words. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Chickens poisoned by aldrin used on a neighboring farm have passed on the chemical to their eggs; hens experimentally fed DDT laid eggs containing as much as 65 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All they knew was that they were losing meat out of their smokehouses, eggs out of their hens’ nests, and sometimes even whole pans of corn- bread that the womenfolks had set out to cool. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z His pet hen, a White Leghorn, clucked with excitement every time the swatter came down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z After that, Pedro Tercero picked up his guitar, rested it on his knee, shut his eyes, and sang with his velvety voice the song about the foxes and the hens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re only still scraping by with what Mrs. Fowles gave us off their boat, plus some eggs, because thank goodness Mama Mwanza brought us over two laying hens after the ants ate up ours. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I sneaked out of the room, went out on the back porch, and stood watching Granny’s White Leghorn rooster chase the dominecker hens and the Rhode Island Reds. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Laura and Mary helped her weed the garden, and they helped her feed the calves and the hens. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Zola opens the door and, suspicious, peers around the Signora to see if she has brought snakes or slugs with hen Signora Divino says, “I make ravioli. Andiamo, andiamo! Let’s go!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z For five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I cleaned the hen in the barn on my father’s workbench, cut it up into frying-size pieces, and divided it evenly into two piles, one for him, one for me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And then the hen flapped her wings, moving away. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The hen bobbed her head, as if in affirmation. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes I would walk to town and return with a veterinarian who would check the cows and hens and, while he was at it, anybody who was sick. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, they had come back in, and there were three fresh eggs in the hen house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Same squat, square shape and low roof, like a sitting hen ready to lay. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z His godchildren came from many miles on his saint’s day, and brought him kola nuts and black hens. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Finding them was rather like an Easter egg hunt, because many of the hens preferred to lay under bushes, rather than inside the henhouses. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I laid the dead hens in my basket. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was not sure how long she sat there before the hen began to squawk loudly and spread its wings to shield the chicks, but they did not run into the shelter quickly enough. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The hen gives one egg every day and a half. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The black hen left through the backdoor, and scratched abstractedly in the yard, where woodshavings blew about like blond curls. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After the agronomist had left, they also ate the imported cows and all the brood hens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And so it was that one day Esteban Trueba, who was resting on the terrace after lunch, heard the boy sing about a bunch of hens who had organized to defeat a fox. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Loud, plump, red-and-white hens, ripe for the plucking—just like the ones we used to have. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no spiral of lazy blue smoke twisting from the rock chimney, no white leghorn hen chasing a June bug, no horse or cow standing with head down and tail switching. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The hens, said Napoleon, should welcome this sacrifice as their own special contribution towards the building of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I did see what Anatole meant about the snakes and hens too close together in a place like that: you could trace the belly scales of hate, and come up howling. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d seen roosters chase hens, catch up, climb on top of them, and dig sharp beaks into the hen’s head as she cackled and screeched and he flapped his wings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Like the hens, the rabbits spend part of their time in portable rabbit hutches in the pastures. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And the hens were a bother, darting from the periphery into the thick of things, setting up a great hysterical hoo-hah. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z At least Helena had the sense to buy only hens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He went on, “You just don’t know w hen that moment will come so just always be doing the right thing. Don't do no wrong and you will make your father proud.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the house, hens cackled softly, while the flapping of wings above sounded like secret applause. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z On Mr. Bender’s side, some coot hens swim in and out of view between the cattails. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Whatever you want to call it, some of the hens simply can’t take it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z By that time Matt was wringing and twisting like a hen on a hot brick. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Even the hens, fenced in by the wire chicken run, clucked and fussed in our honor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Some of the houses have their doors open to the air and I glimpse hens, a cat, a couple of men, in the inner courtyards. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The little girl is as light as a hen in my arms. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Ma says, coming out to throw some mash to the hens. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to the corral and marked the animals and plants: cow, goat, pig, hen, cassava, caladium, banana. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z While the roosters shrieked, the hens scrambled helter-skelter, commenting shrilly on the action: they clucked hysterically; they cackled obscenely; sometimes their alarmed voices were like machine guns. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We scurried around, like hens in a yard, craning our necks for anything that touched the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He soon mastered his right hand and expanded his use of the two fingers that remained, continuing to compose songs about hens and hunted foxes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The man in the stalled motorboat yanked frantically on the cord to his engine, and the two mud hens sought supper at the bottom of the lake, tails bobbing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the harsh, vibrating cry of a moor hen echoed through the trees, followed by a flapping of wings and a watery scuttering. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Or rather, it’s awkward w hen I see her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “The cyclotron evidently proves to be a sort of hen laying golden eggs,” Segre wrote Lawrence fulsomely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One of the hens broke free in an explosion of feathers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When they grow up they’ll be our new laying hens, some of them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The constable in the village was a kindly man with a waxed mustache whose wife kept hens and delivered fresh eggs on her bicycle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z After the cattle it had been home to several hundred laying hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was something confident about his gait, like a rooster in charge of all the neighborhood hens. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Look what the hens left me,” he said each time. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And what about the poor widow who had only one hen? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Jones used sometimes to mix some of it in our m^sh,” said one of the hens. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Look at all these chickens! At least fourteen hens.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I watch the hens — I see where they go. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Sul Ross came by as I was taking potshots at the hens. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Maybe it was Wayne on his way home from hunting; last week, he’d brought me two sage hens. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The sun was blazing down, the air was sweet, but every leaf that the wind lifted, every rustle of a pheasant hen in a clump of ryegrass, sent needles of fear through their veins. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Spacious, clean, and bright, the long room had a pair of beds, shelves crowded with children’s books, freestanding wardrobes, tidy dressers, a unicorn rocking horse, multiple toy chests, and a hen in a cage. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z You return to find your houses combed spotless of spoiled crumbs, your bedding free of lice, your woodlots cleansed of night soil, your hen coops rid of chicken mites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Or, “Beetle, I am going to feed the hens. Strain the nettle tea and pour it into clean flasks.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He ate on the porch with the hens. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And she made her hens so happy with marigolds and barley that they laid like troupers and hatched out more chicks than any on the Elizabeth Islands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Instead factory farms clip the beaks off their laying hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I ran over and looked at the hens, teetering like plump little ladies on spike heels. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was just the biggest flock of black-and-white-checkered hens here waiting for us when we arrived. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The family hens were attacking the earth, searching for worms and insects, clucking and muttering to one another like proud, fat little abbesses. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “They must be! There’s the brown hen, the white—I’d know that comb anywhere.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z A hen hopped off its roost, and Mandy collected three eggs. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Mother was a blithe chick nuzzling around the large, solid dark hen. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone’s rescued hen fluttered up to the bow of our boat and strutted placidly along the gunwale, its delicate wattles shaking as it plucked up ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to help feed the hens and collect the eggs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He had lifted Campbell Junior up to the window so he could watch a hen leading her baby chicks towards the front yard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Egg-laying hens, dairy cows and draught animals are sometimes allowed to live for many years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Since there was no one in the room but the three of them, it had to have been hen But that couldn’t be. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Falling, falling, and not knowing w hen you will hit. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as the four of them stepped into the high green and gold grasses, a small orange kitten was worrying a big old hen into a frenzy near a rotting stump. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Seth held the hen up to his face. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At a factory egg farm, the laying hen spends her brief life jammed into a wire cage with six other hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When I looked up, the hens were clustered near the door, squawking to get out. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “I traded my girl, my own daughter, for this red tablecloth and for a hen and for a handful of cigarettes. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Once I sneaked into the hen house and took eggs, but the chickens were scared, thinking from my approach at night that I was a weasel or a fox. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Aunt Chipo killed one of her precious hens and forced her daughter to eat all of it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a wonder to watch Miss Whitlaw sail up the block and gather people behind her like a hen collecting her chicks. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wish it every night. That tablecloth was the color of blood. That hen could lay eggs like nobody’s business.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “Radios, maybe one per hundred thousand residents. No telephones. Newspapers as scarce as hen’s teeth, and a literacy rate made to match. They get their evening news by listening to their neighbors’ drums.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, fields of alfalfa are dusted with DDT; meal is later prepared from the alfalfa and fed to hens; the hens lay eggs which contain DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Angel and Jose, the Puerto Rican boys, cackled like hens when the medicine ball knocked him over like a tenpin. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no wastage whatever; the hens and ducks with their sharp eyes had gathered up the very last stalk. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Brother Khoi is mad at Mother for taking his hen’s eggs. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And there was a very big enclosure for the hens, with five henhouses in it, like the one in which I hid. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Better the fox to guard the hens and the wolves to guard the sheep,” the badchan said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My “old hen” neighbor—her own label for herself—is sought after like a debutante at a grand ball for her horse-training skills. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The hen watched us, cackling nervously, and when we walked around the bush, her beady eyes followed us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Experience had taught them that in the end the fox always eats the hens, despite the subversive ballads that were traveling from mouth to mouth preaching just the opposite. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Nurmi was out in the yard by an old wood stove which she still used for boiling the vegetable dyes for her weaving, or peelings and scraps for the hens. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I got furious if I saw the children circling the kitchen to steal bread, if the hens were noisy in the courtyard, if sparrows invaded the cornfields. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Another small problem: a brood hen had hatched out six more chicks. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Toward the end, the hens stopped laying. It got harder to milk the cows, too. I pray for the sisters and the girls who stayed on. I think we have it easier.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The tests showed that Polyface hens have a much lower bacteria count than supermarket chickens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Respect the ladies,” she told Ess, as the little girl stared up at a hen roosting in the low branch of a tree. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Constance resembled a wet hen—same shape, same dour crankiness, and only slightly larger—but Kate smiled when he came in, and the sight of her sunny face gave Reynie a pinprick of hope. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She looked down the fence and saw that it was no hen at all, but a young crow, flapping in the grass, acting most odd. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z When he returned indoors, the black hen followed him, determined to be wherever the boat wasn’t. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she went outside and sat on the backyard steps and watched a hen near the lemon tree, guarding six chicks, nudging them toward crumbs on the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Back then, while World War II was going on, whenever one of our hens would lay a bad egg we’d mark it with an “H”—for Hitler. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “Not like last time. And a chicken, tell them, not a hen. Tell them who it’s for and then they won’t mess around.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Mamita would take a warm, fresh egg from beneath one of our hens, then break off a bunch of small branches from the chilca tree. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z First, somewhere out behind the chicken yard one of the hens cackled. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “No wonder everybody be scarce as hen’s teeth today.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z As he struts off to hand over his quarter, someone clucks like a hen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Hangover tending isn’t part of his job description, but he’s a mother hen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Sam jumped up so fast he frightened a hen. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We keep three hens, and I take one of the two eggs that was in a nest and carry it out behind the bushes. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the hens were also awake, scratching, clucking, laying eggs. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The hens hadn’t been laying the same since the tornado, but today was the first day we collected nearly a dozen. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “They sound like a bunch of old hens,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It took ages to get to the landing field—getting dark when we arrived, minus hens, which had been dropped off at their final destination. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Being a rather old hen it would have been better roasted, but I could not help that; he would find it edible if a bit tough. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Everybody has their time, and it ain’t up to me w hen that will be. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m thinking of the hens I saw at Polyface Farm, fanning out over the cow pasture on a June morning, pecking at the cowpats and the grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z W hen I got home I showed Derek the camera and he busted out a smile that was something else. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Sibongile was a powerhouse, a strong woman in every sense, big-chested, the mother hen. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I allow myself these tears sparingly, only ever w hen Tom’s not here, just a few moments to let it all out. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The only picture was an over-enlarged photograph, apparently a hen sitting on a blurred rock. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z There were eggs in plenty not far off, in the hen house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “The sound of a farm without any hens.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Fern was beat down enough after seeing that hen’s neck snapped clean while its body did a dying funky-chicken dance. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Like her, he had come down from the highlands, and she asked him to station a guard in the backyard because she had the impression that hens were being stolen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Eventually I have to go outside and stare at my plump, checkered hens in the yard, trying to decide which one to kill for supper. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Their fussing and squawking went on for as long as it took one hen to spot something tasty on the ground and the others to join in the scuffle to get a piece of it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When Will Hamilton raised chickens and his hens began to lay, the price of eggs went up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My blood began to simmer like sage hen stew. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Every night the hens climb the little ramp into the safety of the coop and Joel latches the door behind them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z His mares would bear triplets, his hens laid twice a day, and his hogs fattened with such speed that no one could explain such disorderly fecundity except through the use of black magic. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “That gives the larvae a chance to fatten up nicely, the way the hens like them, but not quite long enough to hatch into flies.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Adele wrote that the hen with the feathers on her feet was sitting on seven eggs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The hens decided they had had enough of the fox’s abuse. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother cared for them like a mother hen cares for her chicks, even though the hawk of war has flown away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t have, though, because the hen was running around in circles, squawking, raising clouds of dust. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The hen turned her head all the way around, as if her neck were not attached to her body. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There’s a market down in Irishtown where the farmers come on Saturdays with their vegetables, hens, eggs, butter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “But I paid for her fair and square with a good laying hen and a handful of cigarettes and a blood-red tablecloth. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z So I gave him all of the milk; two of the eggs I left in the hen house, thinking I would pick them up when I left and carry them back in my hand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Undeterred by his weight she fed the hens, gathered eggs, fetched water, then sat at the table stringing dried mushrooms. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Kendra reached for the hen, but the flustered bird dodged her grasp. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But if we let some of the hens brood, to increase our flock, we might get away with frying a rooster once a month or so. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She returned with a freshly killed hen and a basket full of beet greens. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I listen to the sounds, so different from home: snuffles and rustling of small animals, the odd cluck from the woman’s hens. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Sixteen hens were a lot of chickens to account for. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z And nearly drowning Rose trying to get her to be a good hen. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There were big white eggs, not at all like the small round ones our hens gave us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Nothing, this time, was going to stop it from being run. hen news of the deal broke to an ecstatic public on October 5, horsemen were amazed that Howard had accepted the walk-up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The hen’s reproachful eyes followed us as we ran around the bush, her body aflutter, her head whirling on her body until it seemed that she would screw herself into the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Sorry to bother you, but I really need to know about Great-Uncle Jim’s Buff Orpington hen. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Ess wasn’t near the swink bushes, or taking cover from the rain in the trees where the hens liked to sleep. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The hen shrieked, flapped her wings, and ran off. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The hen had not performed a single grandmotherly action all morning. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Possessive of her eggs, the hen kept her eyes fixed on us, no matter how fast we moved. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Didn’t I eat hens’ eggs and river trout and venison? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I took two more breaths and started thinking about the little hen that baked the bread. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z For the rest of his life, Terman watched over his charges like a mother hen. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was not the bottle which Mrs Compson wanted, however, and clutching it by the neck like a dead hen Dilsey went to the foot of the stairs and looked upward. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It’ll take those cackling hens about five minutes to figure this out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was always a relief v/hen Math class started. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Glass broke in three windows and a tile slid off the roof, and then a maidservant ran out, terrified, her clucking hen of a daemon flapping after her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z All day he lay there listening to the silence of huddled trees with only a domineering black hen for company. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And some men eased themselves like setting hens into the nest of death. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, I don’t want to sit with all the mother hens inside. You’ll be fine if I stay out here and smoke a few, right?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The man in the stalled motorboat was gone; the mud hens were gone. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On the morning of the picnic she had to start in at the very crack of dawn, to get all those hens killed and fried up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “They were the eggs of the hen your mind was inhabiting.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Something—a sage hen?—was trapped in its talons. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I remember thinking as I watched a hen going into one of the henhouses, “Ah, now I’ll follow her and see what happens.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He turned to see the five hens and the rooster beating their wings. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Without feathers, he looks malnourished and slight, like those little meatless game hens you get at the supermarket. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He had got some hay in the basket and was hunting eggs under the hen roost. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Six months after he had buried the hen, Aureliano Segundo woke up at midnight with an attack of coughing and the feeling that he was being strangled within by the claws of a crab. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She has told me both, as it is awkward her father shouting her real name just below my louvered window when she’s supposed to come feed the hens—it is a poultry farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The farm machinery had fallen silent, and I could hear the sounds of songbirds in the trees, and also the low clucking of hens. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He kicked at a white hen and sat down on the top step, wiping the blood with his handkerchief. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I gathered my sisters and brothers, like a hen her chicks, and stood by the side of the road as someone pulled the bicycle apart and took Raymond’s foot out. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The woman fills our water keg with fresh water, serves us hard-boiled eggs from her hens, and gives Dayah a loaf of her bread, wrapped in a clean cloth, for the road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And it might embarrass Charlie to have his sister clucking over him like an old biddy hen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Papa?” said Mig, when her father was walking away from her with the hen in his arms, a cigarette in his mouth, and the red tablecloth draped across his shoulders like a cape. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “There’s hens all over the grounds,” Hamish told her as she sat down with the boys. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Even the ducks and hens toiled to and fro all day in the sun, carrying tiny wisps of hay in their beaks. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She thought at first it was a hen, strayed from the chickenyard—caught by a fox? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Run outdoors, both of you! And don’t bother the hens!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z As soon as they were in it, dogs were barking and an old woman was running toward them flapping her hands at them, as though they were hens she could shoo away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I cringed, but it just shifted back and forth like a hen settling into a nest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If these were once eggs, it had been a long time since they’d been inside a hen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Seth crossed the floor to the flustered hen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The hens didn’t even stir when he took their eggs. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The happy hens scrabbled in the dirt for bugs and worms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The scratching of the hens turns the chips and the rabbits’ nitrogen-rich urine into valuable compost. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Soon he had the hens hobbled inside their coop. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z W hen I saw that water ripple with a huge tail, I just left my pole with the fish still on it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the robe was tied on and the hen's legs came through the bottom, she rippled her body back and forth, as if to see how much she could still move. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A few more kids clustered around him like chicks to a hen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Eating swedes: and your feet smell of farmyard—hens’ droppings and bran. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result the hens do things no normal chicken would do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mourning the split trees, hens starving on rooftops. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Sophie peered into the jar and there, sure enough, she saw the faint translucent outline of something about the size of a hen’s egg. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Joe Mondragon felt really nervous, he charged into his chicken shed and started madly catching the English sparrows that fed on the hen scratch Joe kept in a long aluminum hopper in there. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how ihany of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z It’s far-fetched to compare that to Miss Love blowing up Cold Sassy, but I’m saying it’s one thing to embarrass a hen and another thing entirely to embarrass a family and a whole town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The pods had swelled until they were the size of hen’s eggs and ready for harvest. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The winged centipede struck at the flustered hen but missed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Liyana had had a hard time sewing the thing so the hen's legs could poke out where they needed to. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z W hen the old house had closed its bleary eyes and settled into sleep, Ammu, wearing one of Chacko’s old shirts over a long white petticoat, walked out onto the front verandah. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They turn paler in the winter, when the hens are not in the pasture. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She bent down with her twig in hand and began to write in the dirt, all the while shooing her hens away. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I had to wait in my hiding place for nearly an hour while the hen transaction was completed, but they saved a sandwich and a drop of cognac for me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “I packed five salted game hens and three tins of foie gras with cornichons,” Horace said bitterly, “and this is what survives our shipwreck.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He will give us food if we bring him what he wants: a grindstone, a rooster and a hen, copper, beads, fifty swords, several muskets, and workmen to build him an English-style house. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I watch as Mr. Redfern introduces Katherine and the Misses Duncan and Anderson to a group of women clustered together like a group of chattering hens, their broad chests puffed out in self-importance. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Erom the size of the jar you can tell how old it was w hen it foundered, inside her, flowed to its death. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It splashes into the middle of the pond, and the coot hen is startled into the reeds. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Buffy is a Buff Orpington. And these three are Speckled Sussex. I’m not sure what their names are yet. They are all laying hens.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z The coot hens are only mildly disturbed at the brief intrusion and circle back to the cattails to resume their breakfast. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Kendra experienced the sense of vertigo that had overwhelmed her when they were changing Grandma back from being a hen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “That was my hold over him for weeks— anybody who couldn’t get to Barker’s Eddy without falling out of the car was a big wet hen.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z All he ever did was sit on the porch and swat flies, and like I said, even had him a pet hen to peck them up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon’s wishes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Nelson raised his long pole and shoved hard, hitting the wall above the nest so dust rained down on the dark, quiet hens. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks to Gott you survived. But you are so thin, liebchen. You look just like your mother, she works so hard. Here, two fat hens for you and your family. And have some eggs.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rocky’s a rooster, not a hen. I raised him from a chick.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z On the wall, I tacked the poster of the red hen which my mother had given me for my fifth birthday, and the drawing of the bam she had given me for my last birthday. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Passing me, she swooped up the hen in her arms and proceeded to cradle it as she apologized to me again. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Looked at from a distance however the hen resolved itself into a bonnet and the countenance of a stout old lady beamed down into the room. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I leapt over the remains of a sentry fire, bumped into a gray- bearded soldier wearing a homespun shirt, and startled a man carrying two live hens by the feet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z "My mother told me I was to take the goat to the market," he said, "and to sell him for a hen, and some corn, and some turnips, and to bring her home the change." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or telling a hen not to cackle. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all the hens chasing after him,” the old man finished. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever, Ms. Gifted-in-Everything. I’m going to check it out. Are you coming with, or are you going back to cower with the rest of the broody hens?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The hens picked at the grasses but mainly they were all over the cowpats. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He's got a sly look to him, like a fox promising to be good around the hens. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She fusses over me like a old hen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Right there he took the opportunity to lecture me about why the hens shouldn’t wander away from the safety of the barnyard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “What did the chickens say when the hen laid an orange?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They have a garden and some laying hens but don’t grow most of their own food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He said they were bad hens trying to steal their babies from us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rafik interrupted her reverie by screaming, “It's leaving! One of the hens has flown away!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z W hen I got to the gate, I nodded at him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The mom is fidgety like a hen hatching eggs.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z His head was a tumult of smells—phlox in bloom, ashes, cow dung, dog, cat, hens, stagnant water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z From what I remember, none of the women in my village looked like that—they waddled like round hens and thought they were pretty. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Between us we had the last of the hens, and we went down into the cellar. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The hens and dibby ducks clucked with annoyance as I gathered their smooth, warm eggs. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z But when he glanced up, he saw Ygritte watching with eyes as wide and white as hen's eggs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “What I do happen to know,” I said, being maybe a tiny bit coy, “is that a civet cat got all of the Nguzas’ hens last Sunday. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Like my aunt Mavis used to say, a whistling girl and a cackling hen had better know when to call it quits. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A hen clucked proudly, and Tree-ear grinned—Min would have an egg for his supper. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Like an angular, arthritic hen settling stiffly on her clutch of eggs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That meant there were now fourteen babies coming on—and two more hens were setting. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And off the midwife would go, although Beetle knew the last hen had made soup weeks before and the hen house lay empty except for an occasional hopeful hungry dog. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At this the roach rushed up like a hen, burst into tears, and began stammering its message. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Every morning this kid came to school and was greeted by anything from three hens to twelve drummers drumming. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I peered through the opening without entering, although I knew that wiry scarecrow form, stooped over the row of hens squatting in small dresser drawer-like boxes. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Can you imagine Jesse James without a gun, or a hen that didn’t cackle? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a mother hen, he gathered up his chicks, sometimes nudging, sometimes snapping, and shooed them out the door. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Lucas started grabbing hens and almost threw them down the cellar. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The hen had moved close enough for Seth to stroke her feathers with one finger. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Somebody’s grandmother said her hens always started a laying of double yolks right after Suicide Day. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Milkman stepped off the porch, scattering the hens, and walked down the road toward a clump of trees near a building that looked like a church or clubhouse of some sort. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z One woman told him she had set several hens after the surrounding land had been covered with poison, “and for reasons she did not understand very few young were hatched or survived.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The hens were so fat, Liyana felt astonished they could fly. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The two women’s devotion to Olivia and her legacy is also at the root of their decision to steal — no, “remove,” or “rescue” — a million layer hens from Happy Green Family Farm. In ‘Barn 8,’ a Plot to Steal a Million Chickens 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Fortunately, spring hen was on the menu, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Scene City: A Dizzying Display at the Dining By Design Benefit 2012-03-28T16:41:12Z The foliage offered the hens some cooling shade. Reclaim space in a smaller garden with trellis pumpkins 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z It calls Rock Cornish hens “celebratory and a bit decadent” and contains a recipe with an orange. When I make my mother’s chicken, I bring her back to the table 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Brighton is a place where people come for holidays, for hen dos and high jinks. 'I lie to my health visitor. I lie to myself': the truth about postnatal depression 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z In addition to hens, Rutkowski also keeps a “bachelor flock” of roosters. Her pet chickens were a source of emotional support during the pandemic. Then, the predators came. 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z McGrain’s subjects have included, among others, the passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Labrador duck, the heath hen, and the Carolina parakeet. The Forest Elephants of the Central African Republic Are in Peril 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The hardest part of the recipe is keeping the hens from cooling. When I make my mother’s chicken, I bring her back to the table 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z These free range chickens covered a large area and at night they were smart enough to get into the hen house because foxes were around. A Chicken That Grows Slower and Tastes Better 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Even eggs still warm from the hen’s body peeled just as easily as the most grizzled specimen. How to Boil the Perfect Egg 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The farm has its modest amusements, visual and verbal, including a pen crammed with ferocious prehistoric hens that alive look halfway plucked. Review: ‘The Good Dinosaur,’ Pixar Human and Apatosaurus 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The hens appear as animal housewives in flower-patterned dresses with inflated red rubber gloves atop their heads. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z Don’t accept guidance from anyone who fits the description of “office mother hen.” Carolyn Hax: Disapproving of wife’s alcohol addiction, but unwilling to walk away I chose my bird from the brood of hens scratching around in the garden. The foodie traveller ... cold beer and dead chickens in Vietnam 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z It includes some extinct creatures such as the passenger pigeon and a heath hen, a common bird in North America until it was hunted to extinction in 1932. Taxidermy kittens centerpiece of New York exhibit 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It took months for them to find their birdsong and to bond with the other hens. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Two of my mother’s specialties were her turkey matzo ball soup and her Rock Cornish hens a l’orange. When I make my mother’s chicken, I bring her back to the table 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z At another hen do I attended, my friend Holly Murray composed a quiz in which every answer incorporated all or part of the bride’s name, Orla Thomas. Field Notes: In England, Bachelorette Parties of a Different Stripe 2012-11-30T10:00:18Z I roasted Cornish hens and basted them with Calvados, pear and guava glaze. Perspective | Cooking through tears helped me feed my dying father. It sustained me, too. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z There is a lovely poetry in its arrival just about a week after the death of Ms. Stewart, the founder of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club and longtime mother hen of Off Off Broadway theater. | 'The Walk Across America for Mother Earth': Protesters Armed With Wigs and Sequins 2011-01-21T03:01:21Z There’s a fish I like to do with tomato and saffron, Cornish game hens, roasted with jam and port wine. Laurence Fishburne Cools Down With Classic Jazz and Cashmere Blankets 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z A tom sporting a long red snood draws the attention of hens like flies to honey — although, to their credit, the hens manage to be coy about it. How Wild Turkeys Find Love 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z If Smith puts that fear on the page, perhaps a future book might feature a horrible hen or a most fiendish fowl. ‘Hoodoo’ is a haunting tale from the Alabama woods 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z That night, hen parties were everywhere — Kilkenny is listed as one of the top-10 cities in Ireland to hold bachelorette parties. Medieval meets modern in charming Kilkenny, Ireland 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The land of lost loves, no hens left, stretched before me as well. Was She Just Another Nicely Packaged Pain Delivery System? 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Each extra egg leeches vital nutrients from a hen's body that are not easily replaced and contribute to her unnaturally shortened life replete with reproductive health issues, avian cancer and broken bones from osteoporosis. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z The Tyneside it portrays isn't one of hen parties in Bigg Market, but of poverty that grinds Newcastle and its inhabitants into an inescapable and unendurable greyness. Get Carter: No 7 2010-10-17T10:49:00Z Place the hens in a large, prepared cast-iron skillet and set aside. Want to make a fresh and festive Thanksgiving dinner for $40? Here's your menu 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Duck eggs, larger than hen eggs and containing bigger, deep golden yolks and a larger proportion of protein-rich whites, are sold at some farmers’ markets. A Larger Canvas for Your Easter Egg 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z "If this hen doesn't get the rose tonight," declares one woman, "there's gonna be a lot of hellraising in this hen house." Here for the right reasons: Why "The Golden Bachelor" is already our favorite edition 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z It's rhyming and is about a mother hen protecting her chicks from the big bad fox. Six Little Chicks by Jez Alborough - review 2012-10-03T11:00:00Z Instead of a reduction of the original, Odyr’s imagined barnyard world adds to the depth of the characters: His pigs, horses, sheep and hens have expressive faces and postures, revealing both sweetness and malevolence. The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More. 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z "Oftentimes, people turn to backyard hen keeping because they've heard about the cruelties of egg production and they don't want to be part of that," she says. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z And, in the spirit of defying gender binaries, I also got a chance to indulge my more feminine side as my colleagues threw me a work hen breakfast. Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Pretty noisy, I realised, with a sinking feeling, as we sat in our empty house the first evening after collecting the keys, listening to an unmistakable hen party soundscape of cackling and Beyoncé. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z This follows them as they plan the wedding, from the reception at an 80s music festival to a raucous stag and hen night in Brighton. Series: Watch this TV highlights 14/08/2012 2012-08-14T13:57:25Z A black hen parades up and down the low mud wall. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Even in Las Vegas, where selective memory is a civic virtue, memorable meals have been the focus of stag and hen parties. Food Is the Attraction at Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties 2010-06-23T04:31:00Z The air is thick with the smell of roasting hen and the sound of music. Marcus Samuelsson: the restaurant king of Harlem 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z One is sweet but a tad slow mentally, even for a hen. 'Birdology': The life and times of birds and their devoted watchers 2010-05-05T22:07:00Z And pasture-raised hens are kept outdoors for most of the year and brought indoors at night for protection. Do you know your egg terminology? 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z They frame the hens like a picture from my childhood. When I make my mother’s chicken, I bring her back to the table 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z For shkmeruli, Cornish game hen is fried until the skin crisps, then traditionally submerged in milk heavy with garlic. Georgian Rarities, Served Without Fanfare, at Chama Mama 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Understanding a bit about how each laying hen was raised will help us understand cost as we break it down. Grocery supply chains: Understanding why eggs cost what they cost 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Eggs are obviously difficult to transport, but this is only true if you are transporting chicken eggs from a hen house. Some commonly accepted "truths" about the origins of Italian food may actually be myths 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Single female non-celebrities were turned away from the lounge of the New Yorker hotel, even if they were paying guests, and “hen parties” attracted horrified disdain from the guardians of glamour. Ted Peckham's 'Gentlemen For Rent' 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z People who compare “The View” to a chattering hen yard haven’t watched it closely enough to see that its core value is rooted in listening to one another, even in moments of utter cacophony. Barbara Walters retires: So long to one of America’s last great listeners on TV SAT Learn how you can integrate hens successfully with your family and garden, 1 p.m. Community calendar 2012-05-09T22:07:04Z Should it be this hard to determine what the life of a laying hen was? Do cage-free eggs mean the chickens were outside? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The fox supervises the hen house, but this fox hurts people. 'Universities and Fraternities Must Tell the Whole Truth' About Sexual Violence 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The hens, with the Vixen in the background, in the current Glyndebourne production. The Cunning Little Vixen - a musical guide 2012-06-04T12:25:00Z After placing the hens in the refrigerator to thaw overnight, I began the stuffing-making process. Want to make a fresh and festive Thanksgiving dinner for $40? Here's your menu 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Despite Chaucer's masculine pronoun, it's well-known that, in the bird kingdom as well as elsewhere, the hens usually make such important decisions, and their judgement, with good evolutionary reason, is based on looks. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z While hens don't go through "henopause" until closer to six or seven, they do tend to slow down as they get older. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z I'm on at 5pm, which is lucky in one way: it means I don't tend to get stag or hen nights. Isy Suttie: My Edinburgh 2011-08-14T21:45:01Z I scratched my head, fondled an fresh free-range egg laid that morning by a spunky, young hen named Clover, and deconstructed it, sunny side-up. Why "Top Chef" gets me cooking 2010-06-16T15:46:00Z Taking a few important steps before you bring chickens home — whether as full grown hens or chicks — can save you time, heartache and trouble down the line. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z “There weren’t any eggs,” Boyce explained, as there were no commercial hen farms. Gold rush opportunists, hippie goat ladies: California entrepreneurs dream of cheese 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z And keep those Cornish game hens away from the sink. Six common mistakes you make when operating your garbage disposal 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In the egg industry, a hen that's a year and a half to two years old is considered "spent" and killed to make room for younger, more reliable layers. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Initially, Danovich started raising hens for the same reasons that many other people do, to source eggs outside of the poultry industry and enjoy the companionship of feathered backyard pets. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Some might feel that the book teeters on a romanticized view of the relationship between humans and backyard hens, but in conversation, Danovich is pragmatic about the role of her work. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z That really annoyed me," Deller says with another smile, "so I thought I would do something with a giant hen harrier taking revenge on man, not Prince Harry necessarily, but man in general. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z Once a hen stops paying the rent, she becomes one of two things: pet or coq au vin. Perspective | 7 tips for raising backyard chickens, from picking a breed to having an exit strategy 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Wampler Sr. proved that turkeys could be hatched artificially, without hens to keep the eggs warm. After 100 years, giving thanks for a life where almost every day was turkey day 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Or was that like asking the fox to guard the hen house? Might as well face it, you’re addicted to screens. ... 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z In it, she described the "miserable and debilitated" life of battery hens. How free-range eggs became the norm in supermarkets — and sold customers a lie 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z After the first death among her hens, she is surprised to feel the pangs of grief and to learn that her chickens mourn their lost companions, too. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z From 100 feet away, walking up the promenade to the British pavilion, the first thing you see is a mural of a hen harrier picking up a Range Rover in its talons. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z In Dough, women are squished alone into tiny compartments like boxed jewels or battery farm hens. Artist of the week 191: Mika Rottenberg 2012-05-24T11:40:15Z The hens were flustered by their new resident and stopped laying eggs in protest. Welcome to Estonia’s Isle of Women 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The evening feels more like a hen do, except that most of us are meeting for the first time and the colourful silicone objects scattered across the room are not sex toys. 'We're having a menstrual liberation': how periods got woke 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z “When Animal Place heard about an Iowa egg farm gassing most of its 140,000 hens, we felt compelled to help,” the organization wrote in a press release. Animal sanctuary arranges to have private planes rescue 1,000 chickens that farm was planning to euthanize 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Up on the roof, three hens are braving the noisy Dalston traffic. Design: Making Food Seriously Local 2011-09-18T14:01:26Z Signing up Michael Cox helped alleviate the supply problem, and not only because it doubled the number of hens producing for Vital Farms. How one company is trying to make ‘pasture-raised’ the new egg standard 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z And if I need to put a wayward hen into her house for the night, I wait until she’s asleep and will let me pick her up without squawking. Perspective | Waiting too long to weed can turn a relaxing task into a trial 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Ready-ground white pepper is key here, as I love its mild, musty flavor against the soft Cornish game hen. A garlicky, gingery chicken soup for the solo soul 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Before the Sea Monster, live music was “scarcer than hen’s teeth around here,” says the man Turner affectionately calls “Uncle Al.” Sea Monster Lounge and 700 Funk keep piece of old Seattle alive 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z While some people end up seeing their flock of backyard hens as pets, most people embark on their chicken keeping journey for one reason: eggs. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z SAT Meal featuring crab, chicken or game hen, music, no-host bar, silent auction, dessert auction, proceeds benefit Sons of Norway scholarships and educational programs, 6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Some vegans choose to eat these eggs, believing that doing so actively helps the hens. Can you be a vegan and eat eggs? 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Youngsoon, who lives with a roommate in a rural area, tells Gamhee about a neighbor’s rooster, who harasses the hens, jumping on their backs and pecking at their necks. ‘The Woman Who Ran’ Review: Conversations With Friends 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z To ensure that these claims are verifiable, that someone is literally watching the hen house, look for products with third-party certifications such as “Certified Humane” or “Animal Welfare Approved.” Do you know your egg terminology? 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The mac and cheese is nothing special, while the bowl of chicken and two huge, fluffy dumplings is oddly bland, despite the menu touting its “hen broth.” At Rock Creek Kitchen, the Southern food lacks some kick 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In fact, free-range flocks can reach up to 16,000 hens a shed, with daytime access to the outside provided by holes in the perimeter. How free-range eggs became the norm in supermarkets — and sold customers a lie 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Many major corporations, from Burger King to Unilever, are getting rid of cages — and Whole Foods hasn’t sold eggs from caged hens in years. Brad Pitt: Costco must free battery hens 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z But Cornish hens are in less demand now than 20 or 30 years ago, so when sell-by dates close in, they often are priced to fly off the shelf. A new gig for Cornish hens: Learning tool 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z “It’s time to cull the flock!” he announced loudly, turning his glare on one particularly lean, rust-colored malefactor who had just set upon an unsuspecting hen. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z The only way to narrow down the choices is to think about your goals for raising hens and where you live. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The roosters were causing havoc, competitively mounting his Japanese Black Tailed White and miniature Sebright hens, crowing like a demon chorus before sunup. Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z Garlic and coriander in the hen’s brine impart uncommon succulence. Review | Hanumanh serves Laotian dishes and drinks so exciting they make a critic long to be a regular 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Presiding over the mayhem, Mr. Charles is both shade-throwing taskmaster and gentle mother hen, guiding his contestants toward sequined self-actualization even as he rates them on the show’s trademark criteria: charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent. For RuPaul, A Second Act with ‘Drag Race’ 2014-02-21T22:38:50Z The U.K. and some other countries have wonderful programs where they rehome former battery farm hens to household flocks. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z It was a male hen harrier, quartering over the moor. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z I had a little hen circle around my seat as I expounded on the genius that is Woody Allen. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Free-range hens get an average of two square feet of outdoor space. How one company is trying to make ‘pasture-raised’ the new egg standard 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Does that mean the hens are fed by vegetarians, or are they fed vegetarians instead? Style Invitational Week 1085: Eww-venirs Is it simply because the hen's housemates never help out with the chores? Paul Galdone's charming illustrations refresh fairy tales 2011-03-18T17:14:30Z Fingers work fine for crisp, deep-fried pork ribs and for a dainty little game hen, both imbued to the bone with sweet-hot marinades: herbs, spices, honey — and in the case of the ribs, rice whiskey. Pestle Rock in Ballard offers unique Thai food 2013-04-18T21:57:29Z To make my mother’s Cornish hens, I follow her instructions: Rinse, take out the inside schmutz and dry. When I make my mother’s chicken, I bring her back to the table 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Many consumers, maybe even you, make the assumption that if those hens lived their lives "cage-free," they must have been outdoors, and are surprised to find out that isn't true. Do cage-free eggs mean the chickens were outside? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z "I'm just gonna dance all night," she howls with the drunken determination of a thousand hen parties. Our best track of 2010: Robyn - Dancing On My Own 2010-12-20T14:01:53Z If you invite me to your wedding or hen party, you’ll handle me in one of three ways. What I’m really thinking: the twentysomething divorcee 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Next we meet Cleveland, an idealistic, if disillusioned, auditor for the Iowa layer hen industry for whom Janey’s mother babysat, as a teenager, 21 years ago. In ‘Barn 8,’ a Plot to Steal a Million Chickens 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Rose’s cooking depends on the delicious integrity of these core ingredients; he is averse to frills and adornments that may interfere with one’s communion with the essence of hen or oyster. Daniel Rose, an American in Paris, Comes Home to Cook 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z We talk to livestock policy whizzes, a grocery store logistics expert and a backyard hen enthusiast to find out the details of laying hens' lives: were they outside? Do cage-free eggs mean the chickens were outside? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The pasture-raised organic brand does not yet have economies of scale and may be growing its own feed or contracting with a local mill for a specific grain blend tailored to outdoor hens. Grocery supply chains: Understanding why eggs cost what they cost 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z They stayed at Mar Vista Farm + Cottages, where they cooked meals using vegetables grown on the property and eggs from its brood of hens. Step by Step, Embracing a Future With Each Other 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z If you want eggs from hens who have lived a good life, raising them yourself may be a better option than deciphering egg labels at the store. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z United Egg Producers, a trade association whose members own 95 percent of our country’s egg-laying hens, has announced an agreement to end the culling of male chicks by 2020. Animal happiness matters. But how do we know what that is? 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Fountain succeeds in making Luxor seem seedily enticing, though there's a coarseness to the humour that you might expect from the ultimate hen party destination. Queen of the Nile – review 2013-04-22T17:08:30Z And the local post office could call at any minute to report that four rare and eye-catching Swedish flower hens were ready for pickup, having been shipped overnight from Florida. At Home on the Farm and in E-Books 2011-05-18T22:06:11Z But a Cornish game hen is the best "cut" of poultry for a solo portion of soup. A garlicky, gingery chicken soup for the solo soul 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Doting on his backyard laying hens, he often referred to himself as a “chicken mama.” Seeking a Father for My Child (Relationship Optional) 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Learn how to raise a flock of hens in the city, 10 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-02-21T01:58:56Z To be screened in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAMkids Movie Matinee series, this G-rated feature focuses on the hens’ escape plans when a rooster, Rocky, offers to help them fly the coop. Spare Times for Children Listings for Nov. 11-17 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z But hens are living animals that require our care to stay healthy. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Each hen has her own egg song that she belts out with gusto when a fresh egg is laid. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Is he a fox in the hen house - as one might think given the history of mutual disdain between England and France? New guardian of French tongue is (gasp!) British 2013-04-04T13:50:15Z The game hen, stuffed with lemongrass, comes with a ruffle of roti, pliable and laminated, flaky at the edges, ideal for cleaning out the sauce at the bottom of the dish. At Nari, a Thai Chef Revitalizes Fine Dining 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z So I’d like to see her as a mother hen in a prison. Alia Shawkat on Going From 'Sassy Teen' to the Lead in Search Party 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Uncle Clifford is a taskmistress, but she minds her dancers less in the way of a madam than a mother hen. All hail Uncle Clifford on "P-Valley," a vision of Black queerness not seen anywhere else on TV 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Satellite dishes cling to houses “like barnacles”; a scammer in a cafe “keeps at his typing with the single-mindedness of a hen picking a yard clean.” Books of The Times: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole 2014-03-25T20:21:54Z Following her escape, Kampusch likened the experience to being "a poor chicken in a hen house". Natascha Kampusch film director eyes Kate Winslet as lead 2010-06-17T11:35:00Z One woman catches Ben’s eye even though her “bare knees look like frozen game hens.” Books of The Times: ‘The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving’ by Jonathan Evison 2012-08-27T21:49:53Z Sidney A. Beard and Jill Brown have six cats, three hens, two dogs, two rabbits and a Belgian draft horse, all rescues. A Promise to ‘Always Say Yes to the Animals’ 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z He also had to manage a large and unpredictable cast, some of whom liked to torture the ultra-prepared Michael Conrad, who played the intimidating mother hen of the precinct, Sgt. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z Cauliflower The cauliflower is, in theory, a simpler proposition, although the lady behind my favourite veg stall informs me it’s currently rarer than hen’s teeth thanks to the winter floods. How to cook the perfect aloo gobi 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Today it is home to vegetable plots, laying hens and a retired cow, Narcissa. Restaurant Review: Narcissa in the Standard East Village 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The Super Bowl hates females so much, even hens and baby girls aren't safe from scorn. 2010-02-08T13:08:00Z One autumn day in 1842, a gift of five hens and two roosters arrived at Windsor Castle for the young Queen Victoria. The bird that flipped the world: Secret histories of the modern chicken 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z As for the Big Rock Candy Mountain, it may well exist nowhere other than in the mind of Harry McClintock's hobo, though the thought of hens that lay soft-boiled eggs does appeal. Readers recommend fantasy songs: the results 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z That’s why it’s sometimes called sea urchin roe, and why chefs serve it with other types of eggs: caviar, quail egg, hen egg. This trendy ingredient has become the foie gras of the sea 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Cornish game hens were the original entree, but guests balked at how bony they were. Medieval Times Goes Modern, Replacing Its Kings With Queens 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Among so many peacocks, I was a mud hen. When did we stop getting dressed up for the theatre? 2011-03-31T14:46:41Z It’s like a group email about a hen do saying the chief bridesmaid would “love if everyone paid their deposit this week!!” Rogue colons, endless ellipses: the worst grammar crimes in film titles 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Revelers from hen and stag parties, draped in matching feather boas and worse, stagger between the bars. Saucy and scandalous? It's so Brighton 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The hens and roosters in this documentary are pampered royalty, and their caretakers find fulfillment in the pursuit of perfection. Review: ‘Chicken People,’ Pampering Royalty That Clucks 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “When people think of chickens, they think of decorative little hens in the pretty little houses that you see on Instagram,” she writes. Three New Memoirs Bring the Farm to the Page 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z How to tend a flock of hens in a city yard, 10 a.m. Community calendar 2012-08-22T22:22:03Z Supermarkets offer an abundance of free-range products and there is no great difference in price compared with eggs from caged hens. How free-range eggs became the norm in supermarkets — and sold customers a lie 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z In these experiments, I might have absorbed some technique, apprehended a writer’s rhythm, imprinting in a sense upon his labored aesthetic like a baby chick upon a mother hen. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z Back in Bolinas, succulents glistened on the roof of the chicken coop; within, the hens vaulted from nests that were festooned with blue and white paisley curtains stitched by Ms. Creed. The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Alan: Drag queens in the UK, they survive it all – there’s a hen party, a stag party, people throwing beer bottles. ‘I love drag. It's dangerous’: Graham Norton and Alan Carr on desire, camp and ‘cancel culture’ 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z All week, children who have spent much of the last year raising a goat or lamb or hen or pig or calf bring their animal to the fair to be evaluated. Frugal Traveler: From Fashion to Crashing at County Fairs 2013-08-27T19:12:05Z In our village girls were not allowed to climb trees, if they did, they would have to pay a fine of Rs 500 or a hen. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z It takes about 30 minutes to roast eight Cornish hen pieces in a 425-degree oven, pictured on a quarter-baking sheet above, dressed with olive oil, fresh herbs, salt and pepper. A new gig for Cornish hens: Learning tool 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z There are pet turkeys and hens in the back to visit, too. Take a day trip to Bainbridge Island that goes beyond the usual tourist stops 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z During the moonlight journey to their new home, Cress is startled to see a fox with “busy” jaws and “a mouthful of hen,” and asks, “Did a fox get Papa?” New Middle Grade Fiction From the Authors of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Knights vs. Dinosaurs’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z I didn’t build the chicken coop, but I designed it, and I care for the hens in it and maintain it. “I don’t like it when people say God never gives you more than you can handle”: Small-town obit writer Heather Lende knows better 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z If they were little red hens, I was the chicken, silently clucking Not I. “Who’s got a comedy song?” The Princess and the Poconos 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z For the morning’s lineup of tour guests, he used 150 eggs laid by the 80 free-range Rhode Island Red hens he oversees on the farm. Lopez Island in the fall: Hikes, farm stands and fine dining 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z How to raise hens in the city, 10 a.m. Community calendar 2012-05-16T23:11:04Z “The theatre grew quieter than a hens’ roost at sunset as the audience settled back, confident that now the curtain would rise and reveal what it had paid its rubles to see—‘Porgy and Bess.’ Sunday Reading: A Night at the Theatre 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z SAT Fun, informative session with local urban farmer to meet her friendly hen and chicks, 10 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-04-16T21:32:01Z And top-shelf eggs come from farms with much lower hen density, thanks to the required 108 square feet of outdoor space. Grocery supply chains: Understanding why eggs cost what they cost 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Pitt becomes the latest well-known US figure to criticise the use of battery hens at Costco, the third largest retailer in the country. Brad Pitt: Costco must free battery hens 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z In 2005, I performed at the Pleasance Courtyard attended by a lot of stag and hen parties. Edinburgh festival 2011: 'The day I set fire to my venue' 2011-07-17T20:45:01Z Eggs brought me on my own backyard chicken journey four years ago but the hens have become much more than that since. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z More will follow as the huge collection is catalogued, and supplemented by newcomers such as the Highgrove hens. Stoke pottery gets boost from Prince's Regeneration Trust 2013-01-14T22:35:41Z There are countless books written on the care and keeping of chickens that talk about everything from coop building to chicken husbandry to protecting your garden from your potentially destructive hens. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z These labels pertain to the way the egg-laying hens are treated. Do you know your egg terminology? 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z First detected in February 2022, over 57 million birds across 47 different states have been affected by avian flu, and more than 44 million egg-laying hens have died. Eggs are expensive right now — will this last forever? 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z But we did have Cornish game hens — and had them often. A garlicky, gingery chicken soup for the solo soul 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z “Dinner is served,” he says to himself, stripping the hen with his fingers. The bluegrass is now being served 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Cornish hen steamed in a banana leaf is pretty much the shade of white you expect. Review | Hanumanh serves Laotian dishes and drinks so exciting they make a critic long to be a regular 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Best are the three perplexed hens, in skirts and heeled shoes, never doing the same staccato movements of head and shoulders at the same time. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z An animal sanctuary in California has rescued 1,000 hens from an Iowa egg farm that was planning to euthanize the birds — transporting them back to their new home via two chartered, private planes. Animal sanctuary arranges to have private planes rescue 1,000 chickens that farm was planning to euthanize 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the wholesale price for a hen, the bird most people eat for Thanksgiving, was $1.85 a pound, about 40 cents higher than a year ago. Turkeys Will Be Scarcer and Pricier Than Ever This Thanksgiving 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z A surprisingly engaging selection of books, including a guide to kitchen gardens and manuals on pig, bee and hen keeping, sat on a deep windowsill. In Somerset, a Hotel With Fitting Name Focuses on Food 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Isabella Rossellini was scolding her spotted mutt, hoping to keep him from mauling a hen that had strayed from her coop. Down on the Farm With Isabella Rossellini 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Nothing about the appearance of the Cornish game hen at Blue Smoke screams, “I am the best thing you will eat today!” Brined, Smoked, Fried and Then Some: A Cornish Hen Gets the Full Treatment 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z When the hens are done, transfer them to a platter and tent loosely with aluminum foil to keep warm while you make the sauce. When I make my mother’s chicken, I bring her back to the table 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z We learn, for example, in a passage about the Vesuvius eruption, that the Renaissance scholar Francis Bacon died not long after stuffing a disemboweled hen with snow. They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z We have two hens, two ducks and eight goats. Vows: Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle - Vows 2011-11-18T22:07:48Z Soon, hogs and dairy goats will join the farm's 13 resident hens. Envisioning indigenous food sovereignty as "a whole ecosystem" 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Channelling a primal theatricality, their chattering and hollering is the sound of a Greek chorus on a hen night. This week's new tracks 2012-12-08T00:05:38Z You can check your local animal shelter, resale groups, or those chicken groups you've already joined on social media to find wonderful hens who just need a new home. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z And what about all of the foxes in all of the hen houses? ArtsBeat: 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: Role Models Unite 2011-04-24T22:26:55Z True acts of televisual subversion or spontaneity by underground bands are rarer than hen's teeth. Will the Manics' appearance on Strictly Come Dancing be subversive or just submissive? 2010-12-01T12:25:00Z At breakfast feast on local ham, sausages and eggs from the hens, smoked salmon and cream cheese as well as homemade bread and jams in the garden room. 10 of the best British B&Bs 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Or explaining the precise map co-ordinates of where you found your hen's eggs. Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed 2011-04-01T23:06:00Z I like hens and baby chicks, and they are in this book. Children's summer reading 2012-07-13T11:00:00Z Julia made conversation with the family matriarch, Doña Felicita – trailed by her grandchildren – who told us about raising chickens, including how she dates her hens’ eggs the day they are laid with a magic marker. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Paraguay’s Capital, Small-Scale Charms 2013-04-17T14:21:28Z Please, will you set a reasonable timeframe to stop selling eggs from caged hens? Brad Pitt: Costco must free battery hens 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z She drops Easter eggs like a benevolent mother hen, arranges elaborate meet-and-greets, and once invited some fans over to her house to listen to her new album while munching on cookies she’d baked for them. Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’ and the Weaponization of Memory 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z She also keeps a couple of donkeys, three cats and six hens who overlook the sculptures and ancient rose bushes in the five gardens, separate cottage and ponds. 10 of the best foodie retreats in rural France 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z In television, heroes are as rare as hens' teeth. My TV hero: Stephanie Cole on Innes Lloyd 2011-08-08T20:00:09Z Or: “The hen steps on her chicks not to hurt them, but to correct their behavior.” Review | ‘Black Panther’ meets history, and things get complicated 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z "Cage-free" hens are better off than those that spend their lives in small battery cages but are still raised in warehouses without ever setting foot outside. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z “The hens have been laying blue eggs lately,” said a server, setting down a froth-filled egg in a nest of lacy, dried leaves. California’s Luxury Dining Circuit: Delicious and Dull 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Melinda pulls out a black Sharpie and grabs the index card with the young hen’s information on the front and the judge’s comments on the back. Parlor rollers, pouters and mookees: Welcome to the world of fancy pigeons 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Along the way we encountered cob and hen swans, flushes of mallards and parliaments of magpies. After tackling Stage 4 cancer, he took on a new challenge — Hadrian’s Wall 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “Going broody” is what a hen does when it’s time to hatch some eggs. Perspective | 7 tips for raising backyard chickens, from picking a breed to having an exit strategy 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z They also have the added bonus that, unlike store bought eggs, you know exactly how the hens laying them have been raised. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z There are three bedrooms overlooking the kitchen garden, a cosy lounge and generous breakfasts include homemade sausages and eggs from his own hens. 10 of the best cooking classes with stays in the UK 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z We learn more about Mrs. Milligan, a stoic hen beloved of the British gunners in Kut, than about David Lloyd George, or the Ottoman sultan. Breaking Out of Prison With a Ouija Board and Some Clever Tricks 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z This was another hen harrier, a female, obviously protecting its nearby chicks. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A duck and other dogs, gesturing with fake paws to actual audio footage of Supreme Court arguments, are cast as lawyers, while a hen pecks away at a court stenographer's keyboard. Millions view talking dogs online spoof of U.S. Supreme Court 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In one entertaining chapter, she recounts the barnstorming stop in Omaha, home to 1927’s other great record breaker: a hen who had laid an egg on 171 consecutive days. Babe Ruth, the First Modern Celebrity 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “We source our produce locally; grow our herbs; raise pigs, hens and sheep; feed our community.” How the Berkshires Became an Epicenter of Great Food 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Annelle bought four hens and a rooster a week ago. America Stress-Bought All the Baby Chickens 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z These bands of brothers cooperated to court females, or hens, and chase off competing males. How Wild Turkeys Find Love 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z In other words, folks, the fox is running the hen house. Review: ‘The Price We Pay’ Maps a Web of Offshore Tax Havens 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z However, I'm not a Thanksgiving purist, and when pricing poultry options, I was delighted to find a pair of frozen Cornish game hens for $9.22. Want to make a fresh and festive Thanksgiving dinner for $40? Here's your menu 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z It was market day in Saint-Sauveur and the cluster of stone houses, with their terra cotta roof tiles, held vendors touting white asparagus, the first cherries and live laying hens. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z While they are a responsibility, hen keeping is also joyful and these books reflect that and can help get family members of all ages excited about chickens. Things to keep in mind if you want to get backyard hens for eggs 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The costs of the eggs from hens raised on these grains are externalized onto our public health system and the degradation of our environment, essentially subsidized by taxpayers and Mother Nature. Grocery supply chains: Understanding why eggs cost what they cost 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z If the argument really is over appropriate images, mid-wedding selling slots would be unlikely to contain anything in worse taste than the stag and hen nights of the participants. TV matters: An ad-free royal wedding 2011-04-07T07:00:02Z Maguire’s menagerie includes a narcissistic skunk, a ditsy hen and a mouse with a borscht belt sense of humor who “used to do impressions on the circuit.” New Middle Grade Fiction From the Authors of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Knights vs. Dinosaurs’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z My friend is worse than a mother hen. My BFF’s family is nuts! 2012-11-08T01:00:00Z We’re already seeing corporations negotiating to get rid of battery cages for hens, and the Humane Society has done an amazing job of pushing that agenda. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z One essay from 2012 celebrates the European Union’s ban on the use of battery cages for hens, a ban he and others helped to bring about through protests beginning in the 1970s. How to live well 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z She loves playing mother hen to messy, needy chicks. "Real Housewives of NYC" finale: Goodbye, wackadoos! 2010-06-04T13:30:00Z And, at 51, he still justifies Fry's gag about the TV audience being "as welcome as George Clooney at a hen night". Baftas 2013: 10 key talking points 2013-02-11T00:06:44Z Tablemates and I couldn’t decide which was more dispiriting: the hen that surrendered all its moisture to the grill, or the sauce with none of the complexity one expects of a proper mole. Review | Urbano 116 looks like the real deal, but its food is a faint echo of Mexico 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z As the Cornish game hen bubbles away on one burner, the little shallot rings crisp up on another. A garlicky, gingery chicken soup for the solo soul 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z The dairy cow competition was nearing its end; the rabbits, hens and pigs had already had their days of judgment — no udders required — and were unwinding one building down. Frugal Traveler: What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland 2013-08-28T21:32:04Z It’s hard to argue with a friendly welcome, fresh eggs for breakfast from the hens in the garden, a nice garden and a porch. Oakland city guide: what to see plus the best bars, hotels and restaurants 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z With comical and heartbreaking anecdotes, Danovich points to how hen keeping has shifted her perspective and altered her behavior. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z The centerpiece of nearly every hen do is a game called “Mister and Missus.” Field Notes: In England, Bachelorette Parties of a Different Stripe 2012-11-30T10:00:18Z Goodness, Topaz is actually putting on eggs to boil! No one told me the hens had yielded to prayer. Katherine Rundell's top 10 descriptions of food in fiction 2013-07-23T14:23:39Z Slowly, the hens regained their innate chicken-ness the egg industry deprived them of. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z I stopped eating meat at the age of eight, after seeing my grandmother killing a hen in the ritual Muslim way. Why being a vegetarian traveller is often so hard to swallow 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The gender ratio is that of a rooster and his hens, and in this setup, Mr. Siddi’s recessive mediocrity is all the more glaring. Review: Juan Siddi, With His Own Troupe, Makes a Return 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The strippers were The Dreamboys, the naked, waxed, tanned, oiled, ripped sine qua non of hen parties everywhere. The Iraq War; Mothers, Murders and Mistresses; Confessions of a Male Stripper: First Cut – TV review 2013-05-30T06:00:17Z Some are prop jokesters, like the woman who tells Gerry she grew up on a chicken farm "and my eggs are still very fresh" before starting to cluck like a hen. Here for the right reasons: Why "The Golden Bachelor" is already our favorite edition 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Speaking of the fox guarding the hen house, if one tries to file a report for harassment expect the police to ask 'do you want to ruin his life?'. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z When I woke up, I'd died and been sent by mistake to hen heaven. TV review: Madagascar; Romancing the Stone; A History of Ancient Britain 2011-02-10T08:00:01Z However, few people bring hens into their households solely as companion animals. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z In an email interview, Ivy defended industry practices, saying more than 80 percent of U.S. eggs are produced under audited guidelines that ensure the welfare of laying hens. Can a California company do better than the egg? 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Recommended Dishes Fluke and brown butter; leeks vinaigrette; scallop, turnip, apple and green juice; monkfish, shellfish, hen of the woods and sea beans; chicken, potato, sorrel and lemon preserve; Comté cheese. Restaurant Review: Rebelle in NoLIta 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The property includes an improvised chicken coop with several hens that provide fresh eggs, and Mr. Swing is building a new sugar shack for making maple syrup. Newly Minted Work by a Change Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z One study suggests that pastured hens deposit more lutein and zeaxanthin into their egg yolks. Lutein supplements are everywhere. Here’s what you need to know about this nutrient. 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The recipe encourages cooks to find a stewing hen but neglects to instruct us to skim off the fat before adding the rice. ‘Deep Run Roots,’ reviewed: A Southern chef and TV star brings on the charm 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The current retail price for fresh hens, which is the bird most people like to serve, is $1.51 per pound, 68 cents more than frozen. An economist talks turkey: 5 facts about Thanksgiving pricing 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Some people might instead look for the words "free-range," hoping that means the hens were outside at least part of the time, or "pasture-raised," assuming that means the hens were outdoors all the time. Do cage-free eggs mean the chickens were outside? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Though Ms. Annelle cited food security as one of the reasons she wanted to have chickens, she realized that it would be at least five months before her hens are old enough to lay eggs. America Stress-Bought All the Baby Chickens 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z With only 100 hens, demand far outstrips the sanctuary’s variable supply. Can you be a vegan and eat eggs? 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z A laying hen in her prime will lay a dozen eggs in about two weeks. Perspective | 7 tips for raising backyard chickens, from picking a breed to having an exit strategy 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z You can enjoy a classic example at Payne’s Bar-B-Que, housed in a former service station, or Cozy Corner, where barbecue Cornish hen and bologna get equal billing. These Are America’s Best Cities for Barbecue 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z We will be left with only groups of stag and hen parties throwing up their fish and chips onto the empty pavements. Can you imagine Blackpool without swimming in the sea? I couldn't bear it 2013-03-20T17:44:20Z Coat the Cornish hens inside and out generously with the oil, then the salt and garlic powder. When I make my mother’s chicken, I bring her back to the table 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Morenstein and his kitchen team, after all, are the culinary bros who created "Turbaconepic," a few years back, stuffing quail, Cornish hen, chicken, duck and turkey into a pig, adding copious amounts of bacon throughout. Holiday TV programming is a feast for adventurous foodies 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z A Vital Farms laying hen spends most of her day outdoors, weather permitting, and is allotted 108 square feet of outdoor space, a standard that translates to 10 acres for 4,000 birds. How one company is trying to make ‘pasture-raised’ the new egg standard 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z He can tune pianos, understands sawmills, river-barge engines, vehicles, dancing, fights, washing dishes, feeding hens, tractors, welding and human hearts. Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South by Tim Gautreaux | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z Watching it is like being stuck on the last train home with the world's most intimidatingly drunk hen party. Take Me Out: worth a second date? 2010-12-20T13:57:50Z The letters are appearing a year after the publication of Orwell’s diaries, which focused on the concrete and often mundane details of his daily life, including the number of eggs laid by his hens. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z Ada, the mother hen of the group, has arranged it so that Marcus and Denise will be largely confined to the group’s overseas offices, while the others will be more actively proselytizing, or “witnessing.” Review: In ‘The Harvest,’ a Crisis of Feeling for Young Evangelicals 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “Rescuing battery hens is a wonderful, compassionate practice that the Vegan Society absolutely endorses,” says spokesperson Jimmy Pierce. Can you be a vegan and eat eggs? 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Prospective chicken owners nationwide were running into a similar problem as demand for chicks, especially those that would grow up to be egg-laying hens, skyrocketed at the beginning of the pandemic. Her pet chickens were a source of emotional support during the pandemic. Then, the predators came. 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Like many vintage trends, the Cornish game hen — beloved by the restaurant industry due to its elfinness and ultra-tender flesh — seems to have all but gone out of fashion. A garlicky, gingery chicken soup for the solo soul 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Some of the film’s funniest moments occur when customers, fresh from Middle America, gawk at the sights, clucking their disapproval like annoyed hens. Review: The Lobster Scene in ‘Multiple Maniacs’? It Still Startles 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z "Paintings with cows and hens collect dust," it declares, "while bulls and roosters sell." An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z In the corner, a hen watched us warily. Behind the scenes at a B&B: The joys — and challenges — of being an innkeeper 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The mass market organic hens were raised similarly, but fed organic grain and provided with "access to the outdoors," which might mean an open door or porch at one end of the barn. Grocery supply chains: Understanding why eggs cost what they cost 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z So too was the procession of women, no doubt feeling the effects of the previous night's hen do, grimly lining up to avoid catching the bouquet. EastEnders: it's a Walford crime wave 2013-04-27T05:00:00Z With a lemon slice tucked under its bronzed wing and a rosemary sprig pinned to its taut, golden bosom, half an applewood-smoked hen looks equally dashing, and tastes exquisite. Brass Tacks: Solid gastropub tosses in some yummy surprises 2013-05-16T19:42:32Z Even Danovich admits that early on in her planning, she doubted that she would keep her hens once their egg laying decreased. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z A Cornish game hen fits snugly in its saucepan with garlic and ginger. A garlicky, gingery chicken soup for the solo soul 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Beginning Tuesday, the company presents Frederick Ashton’s cheerful, farm fresh “La Fille Mal Gardée,” complete with clogs, maypoles and dancing hens. Dance Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “I’m like the mama hen waiting on all the chicks to check in,” Heckman says. Eyes on the skies, minds on their phones: The fireworks lobby hopes for a quiet Fourth SAT Learn the benefits and the basics of having your own flock of hens, 10:30 a.m., Community calendar 2012-03-14T22:30:06Z While Prop 12 does address some other animal welfare concerns, like adjusting space requirements for egg-laying hens, the most contentious point is the pork industry's use of gestation crates. With Proposition 12, the Supreme Court could be ruling on more than factory farms 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z I took in four hens to start with, and they changed my life. Experience: my chickens saved my life 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The implant halts ovulation and gives hens' reproductive system a break. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Putin doesn’t give anything away but looks, says Stone, “like a fox who just got out of the hen house”. Oliver Stone on Vladimir Putin: ‘The Russian people have never been better off’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Both a brick of pork belly and a baked Cornish hen arrived dry. Review | La Limena Grill doubles your Peruvian pleasure 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Ingredients shift, but on my visit included leeks, corn, hen of the wood mushrooms, squash blossoms and dried cherry tomatoes. 8 Portland, Ore., Meals for $8 or Under 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Earlier attempts by California to eliminate unnecessary confinement for sows and hens had been somewhat successful in improving animal welfare on farms, but left significant loopholes. With Proposition 12, the Supreme Court could be ruling on more than factory farms 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The kitchen crew led by Mark Ladner, the executive chef, concocts the elixir through a process that involves no fewer than 90 hens. Del Posto Doubles Down on Luxury 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z "I spend most of my time undressing in motorway service station toilets off the M3 on my way to a hen party in Basingstoke." Trailer trash 2012-07-14T23:06:26Z In the U.K., hens are vaccinated to prevent salmonella transmission, and the cuticle is left on as a natural barrier. How to tell if your eggs are *still* edible 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z “I tried it with the hens,” he says. “Babe”: Pig at the Philharmonic 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z It was a film that largely set the tone for the 10 days that followed, as lightning flashed, arthouse curios sprouted and big American titles proved to be as rare as hen's teeth. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Battery farming sees hens packed into cages to control their environment and increase the number of eggs they lay. How free-range eggs became the norm in supermarkets — and sold customers a lie 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Each part is added separately, according to its own cooking time, and, at some point, a stewing hen or capon is usually added to the caldron, too. A Feast as Thrilling to Make as It Is to Eat 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The cage-free hens were raised in large barns, with thousands of birds packed together. Grocery supply chains: Understanding why eggs cost what they cost 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z In their colourful Stockholm flat, they all used the Swedish gender neutral pronoun hen, avoided gender stereotypes and dated whoever they wanted. What my queer journey taught me about love 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z |
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