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Sentence Examples These hens may not be caged over a manure pit, but they are walking around in it. In a daring attempt to escape the chop, four battery hens and a cockerel fled from the back of a lorry taking them to an abattoir. She lived on the top floor while all her hens and chickens clucked happily on the ground level. However, the animals sacrificed in these rites have been chickens and hens. I couldn't work out whether he thought I was trying to steal his hens or whether he wanted to add me to his harem. Joel carefully weighs two metal washtubs full of stewing hens, then rinses his hands. She had four hens of her own but last April a fox paid a visit to her henhouse in Broad Town and helped himself to half her flock. While hens usually travel together, toms roam either in separate flocks or alone. There were no hens pecking about, no friendly lop-sided roofs or straggly flowers popping their heads above the earth. Children will also delight in the baby piglets, kittens, ducks, and hens that roam free. Free-range hens huddled in their doorways because their field was a bit windy. The 5 bantam hens and one California white hen provide excellent grasshopper and slug control. Breeding hens and young chicks eat a greater proportion of animal matter than the rest of the population. My mother kept chickens until all four hens and the three cockerels were stolen just over two weeks ago by the local kids. Male and female birds are very similar, with the hens distinguished only by their brighter, pinkish-red irides. Male hens which are hatched are usually killed the instant they are born as they are of no use whatsoever to the battery farm industry. Now the European Union is in the process of overhauling many practices involving farm animals like hens, calves and pigs. He hid near nests of black woodpeckers, kingfishers, northern hazel hens and Eurasian sparrow hawks. Incubating common eider hens were caught on the nest with hand-nets on selected islands in the study area. Some of them complained that my dad had pilfered eggs from their hencoops, and had stolen hens and chickens as well. Show More Sentences Coops used for rearing young hens should be organised pretty much along the same lines as the laying hencoops. They were poor, having no stock save a cow and a few hens, and often had to beg for food around the parish. Instead, hens north of the Border will carry on living out their miserable lives crammed into dark, tiny boxes to boost farmers' profit margins. This consisted of picking off the mature caterpillars and feeding them to the hens, and a liberal application of derris powder. Viewers can see sheep making use of nature's larder for feeding and medicinal purposes, calves playing tag and hens soaking up the sunshine. The females and their broods can all associate with each other, so there may be multiple hens with poults in a group. Their livestock consists of Hereford and Aberdeen Angus cattle and free-range hens. A few hens, questing for food under a rick, stole away under a gate at her approach. My source of free-range eggs dried up last month when Mr Fox made off with our neighbour's hens. Besides a house and a tool shed, the other building on their small acreage was a chicken coop where the egg-laying hens roosted. Papa couldn't butcher their milk cow and he had to keep the surviving roosters and hens to build a new flock in the new year. My only training was in how to hold off the rooster when I was scattering the wheat grains to the hens. Egg-laying hens loiter near their hen house and sometimes into the flowerbed. Mr Davenport has lived on the farm, which has an assortment of hens, sheep and geese, for 40 years. The very ruddiness of the ruddy drakes has vanished, and the males are hard to distinguish from the hens. On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens. Free-range hens, for instance, have greater freedom to move about, but are more susceptible to feather pecking and disease. I have a rooster who is a Plymouth Rock and the hens are the Araucana breed. Still, I get a kick out of watching our hens roam around the yard, digging and scratching, or taking dust baths. Keith runs an organic smallholding and keeps free range hens and these Aylesbury duck. Show More Sentences Some of my favorite duck hens were getting older though, so I had to reconsider artificial incubation for any fertile eggs they laid. If their sow pigged or their hens breed chickens, they cannot afford to eat them but must sell them to make their rent. The hopeful buds of roses scorch before their time is come while disconsolate hens settle for a dry dust bath. The only things living were a sow, her piglets, and some hens scratching in the dirt. Throwing scratch grain around will get the hens scratching, which will fluff up the bedding and keep it well mixed. The hens scratch away in their corner, recycling all the household scraps into lovely fresh googies. Place the hens on the serving platter or individual plates and drizzle the sauce over them. Congress has appropriated money to pay the farmers for their pullets and old hens. Here in Australia, approximately 10-million battery hens are caged for life. It is calling on politicians to support legislation to ban battery cages, which it says cause great suffering to hens. To teach our young people in a school like that, to be reared like battery hens, would be folly. Vegetarian, vegan, and animal-rights movements have prompted Sweden to become the first E.U. member to outlaw battery cages for hens. Many of today's farming techniques are not natural, regarding GM crops, battery hens and such, but many of us do not think of these as wrong. The European Commission recently announced an end to the cramped conditions suffered by hens housed in battery cages. A few farms run cockerels with the hens, because they help to calm the flock. With laying hens confined so closely in battery cages, the possibility of cross-contamination between animals must surely be very high. Up to nine birds, including three budgies, a dove, a finch, two hens and a quail died at the pets' corner in Longford Park, Stretford. Ducks, geese and water hens will be introduced shortly and it is hoped over a short period to build up a colony. There's a horse in the pigpen, the pigs are in the chicken coop, and the hens are in the doghouse. There are lots of grasshoppers around here, but my hens patrol the garden perimeter fence and really reduce the numbers of insects in the garden. Show More Sentences We didn't wish the fox ill, but his determination to steal our hens didn't make him a friend of the family either. Lots of townies and people with a couple of acres are buying hens, just to have them milling around their feet. It looks a bit strange sitting on the draining board next to the 7 large brown hens eggs from today. Men appear to be the most accident-prone, with four times as many stags losing personal items as hens, and twice as many being victims of theft. Staying on the holiday shopping theme, just how much do three French hens, a couple of turtle doves, or five gold rings actually cost? His hens are also locked indoors and he is watching for signs of the virulent disease. Now, at 10, she has 20 hens, five cockerels and some ducks for which she lovingly cares. Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom. The hens took stage fright and skedaddled when Nancy tried to record some hen chatter. The chicken body louse, Menacanthus stramineus, can decrease egg production in caged layer hens. He was looking out the front door yesterday when I had it open to feed the hens. They milk the cows, feed the calves, slop the pigs, and check the roosting hens before sitting down to tea in their own kitchen. However, we still have lots of animals who desperately need loving homes, particularly rabbits, hamsters, gerbils, hens, even cockerels. This is a real country garden, with hens running riot in the orchard and a cockerel lording it on the compost heap. The other part of the problem is that the hens have their dust bath in the bed. Chickens and hens cluck nearby and the cicadas start up their relentless refrain. While broilers were bred to put on as much breast meat as quickly as possible, other hens were bred to lay big eggs as often as possible. Battery hens and broilers suffer disease and injuries, and mutilation such as de-beaking. That has led to many hundreds of hens, roosters, and broilers, ten of thousands of eggs and freezers full of meat. A hazardous slick of broken eggs caused traffic chaos on Thursday after a truck carrying thousands of broody hens lost its load. Show More Sentences It is best to leave the broody hen with other hens for only one or two days. The geese honked, and the hens hopped about clucking, as she giggled and ran after them. Chickens can spread the infection to their eggs but it is rare with velogenic strains because viremic hens usually stop laying. It is a pleasure to see the ducks, geese and water hens merrily splashing around in the lake. The hens would be in the low teens, 16 or 17 pounds, and the toms would dress out at 28 pounds. Callison went to the grocery store, where she bought Cornish game hens to serve, instead of her 21-pound Butterball. Some have suggested that hens cackle to announce to roosters their renewed receptivity to mating. To dream you hear hens cackling foretells success in love, and an accumulation of riches by means of female relations. The Powley Vale Farm was a throwback to by-gone days, free range hens and pulper, open fire and hob, live sowing of spuds and corn sowing with a fiddle out of tune. Whistling women and cackling hens will never come to any good ends. They raised cackling laying hens and pastured fat, spotted steers. Cattle grazed the pastures where prairie hens, quail and coyote roamed. The resulting difference in size between males, or toms, and females, or hens, requires producers to rely solely on artificial insemination for reproduction. And a gobbler not in the company of hens is a gobbler looking for hens. In the midst of this instant lake sat the chicken coop, its roof blown away, and a flock of sodden, disgruntled, out of sorts hens perched lumpily atop it. The yellow colour comes largely from carotenoids, which hens get from plant foods, or lutein, which is added to feeds specifically to colour egg yolk. The UNFPA is moving toward smaller incentives, like hens, for cost reasons. I looked at a few hens scratching in the grit at the hut's door. If it's really about animal cruelty, why aren't we banning battery hens? So nobody in Europe is now allowed to do that, and we also have legislation which is going to result in the phasing out of battery cages for laying hens. Show More Sentences The males are bright and showy while the hens are conservatively dressed. Egg-laying hens are placed in cages to unnaturally churn out egg after egg. I swear, you two are bigger mother hens than my own family is. In this sleazoid farce where characters cackle like horrific hens in a sexual slaughterhouse, individuals coexist in insular states of self-absorbed eccentricity. The cluck-cluck of unnumbered generations of disgruntled mother hens? He tells Harding that the session reminded him of a pecking party, where a group of hens, seeing a spot of blood on one of their number, will peck that hen to death. Wild duck and water hens also frequent this area of the river and it is pleasant to watch from the bridge and note the wildlife come back to their old haunts. I couldn't believe how many types of hens there are and how tame they are. Shot over a five-year period, the programme reveals secret glimpses into the ordinary, everyday life of cattle, sheep, hens and wildlife on the Cotswold slopes. Around 21 million hens are living in battery cages in the UK and consumers are being urged to make sure this year's Pancake Day is welfare-friendly. The rooster and hens came squawking and pecking around his feet. What we can't eat, the hens eat, and recycle into nice fertiliser which acts as an accelerant for the compost heap where all the garden waste goes. It was a compromise between battery-caged and free-range hens. Lined with red, the black box poem enacts its filiation yet playfully threatens its ground, where the once white chickens are now floating black hens. It still seems strange to have to get out into the paddock early in the morning in order to beat the free-range hens to the avocados, which they love almost as much as I do. Water hens nested, herons fished, and ducks and puddocks swam in the dam. Arnold was there to show off his sheep, hens, geese and little goslings. Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. Use of lycopene, an antioxidant carotinoid, in laying hens for egg yolk pigmentation. What he loved to do was count the number of eggs his hens laid. Show More Sentences Silversides and Scott reported that quality measurements based on the albumen height of fresh eggs are biased by the strain and age of the hens. The presence of the virus of visceral lymphomatosis in embryonated eggs of normal appearing hens. At the beginning of the brooding season, the hens are very sensitive to disturbances and leave the nest quickly. As hatching nears, hens sit tighter on the nest and will only flush from the nest if disturbed in very close proximity. There are moor hens nesting here, and we've had sightings of mallards, a Canada goose, herons and willow warblers. The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance. Nesting hens rarely spend more than an hour a day off of the nest feeding and as such become somewhat constipated. While I was cleaning the kitchen cupboards, I ran across Mother's recipe for Cornish game hens. Two Tamworth pigs, 49 sheep, a donkey, a mule, 13 turkeys, five guinea hens, four dogs, seven cats, and 50 or so chickens live here. The hens were my witness to the ghost. They set up the sort of fuss and panic you hear when a snake enters the chookhouse late at night. We found those hens, dozens it seemed, and half a dozen cocks, not counting the ones that we doglessly walked past. They haven't made you an inspectress of boarded-out workhouse children, have they? or sent you down to improve the breed of hens? The delightful British film recounts the story of a group of brave hens plotting to escape from a factory farm. Loss of hereditary uterine protoporphyria through chromosomal rearrangement in mutant Rhode Island Red hens. I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. Animal rights groups propagandize that hens are forced to lay eggs in crowded, inhumane cages. Around 40 per cent of battery hens are debeaked and around 33 per cent have broken bones before reaching the slaughterhouse. Wheat is good to get hens to lay more eggs so buy chicken scratch with wheat in it. From beef production to pedigree Texels, via laying hens and dairying, he has constantly restructured his 100-acre business to stay profitable. During winter the hens rarely go down to the ground and most tracks in the snow are from cocks. Show More Sentences He said European pressure was working against incompliant countries and Spain, for example, had cut its number caged hens by around eight million. By way of courtship, the black males will fly at each other at combat speed, full of bluster, to compete for the attention of the dowdier grey hens, at sites know as leks. The normal breeding cycle will see unbred hens flocked together. Over the years we've rescued all sorts of waifs and strays, and now have four dogs, a cat, an eagle owl, hens, ducks, a collared dove, a canary and zebra finches. Perseveration in a guessing task by laying hens selected for high or low levels of feather pecking does not support classification of feather pecking as a stereotypy. After a one-week adaptation period, six laying hens with similar live weights from each replicate were killed by intracardial injection of sodium pentobarbitone. The hens, ready to get mounted, crouch and utter a begging sound. Even single human observers may cause the hens to fly off and prevent copulation in this very short time span where they are ready for conception. Dietary menhaden oil contributes to hepatic lipidosis in laying hens. Roger Waite, EU Commission spokesman, said the problem was not directly related to the battery cage ban but that French farmers were producing more hens. It will certainly be a little different to C-list celebrities showering themselves in the Australian jungle, dining out on a diet of worms and grubs or watching hens lay eggs. The hens are ground breeders and spend the night on the nest. The effects of long-term caging and molt of Single Comb White Leghorn hens of heterophil to lymphocyte ratios, corticosterone and thyroid hormones. Hens scurried in tiny apple orchards amid signs advertising Calvados and farm cider. Hens herd their chicks from the shade of one log to the next, searching for specks of grain along the way. Hens enjoy scratching, preening and dustbathing and the deep straw covered floor encourages these social activities. In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off. Hens were kept for both their meat and eggs, and the bones of game birds such as the black grouse, golden plover, wild ducks, and geese have also been found. Examples from Classical Literature We're all like a lot of hens in a backyard, scratching so many hours a day. Some hens and ducks had crept through the hedge and were pecking at the fallen apples. Aye, but its a sign o dead hens when the farmer rins after the fox that has loupit the yett. Guess you never see no hens like them afore, chuckled the lobsterman as he rowed away. I wants Mistis ter come back in one dese big Langshan hens, so you wont git so lonesome, dats whut I wants. The chickens may be saved either by removing them to other broody hens or by putting them in a flannel wrapping in a warm place. The hens are a very fine breed, akin to our Wyandotte in shape, but of various colors. The wekas or Maori hens are small, flightless birds, averaging when full grown about two and three-quarter pounds. The hens sitting near the lane fence, fluffing the dust over their backs, were holding a small and talkative service of their own. Occasionally, when hens eat unusual quantities of green food, the yolk show a greenish brown tint, and appear dark to the candler. He sed the Erth was materiel but man was immaterial, and hens man was different from the Erth. The barn swallow and house wren feather their nests at the expense of the hens and geese. A sailor-boy then took him up, and set him in the hencoop among hens, and ducks, and turkeys. A sound had reached her, a sound which had nothing to do with the two puppies, or the hens, outside. I think strange it does not agree with hens, because milk is so good for human. You are figuring hens the way you do compound interest, but you are away off. Flocks of old gulls, enormous as hens, fluttered with evolutions like a contredanse upon its glossy surface. I bet this bunch of hens on Acorn Island will holler for us roosters before we set the distress signal for them. No other noise could disturb us but the cackling of hens and the quacking of ducks. Then I want her to have one of those young Dorking hens your father got the other day. Show More Sentences For one night the monster devoured out of the village of anis six hens, a sheep, and a young orphan child called little Elo. Stories were told of her dirt and shiftlessness, of the hens which roosted in her kitchen. In the road before the house a flock of chickens, accompanied by two guinea hens, lay in the deep dust. When he awoke, the morning was advanced and the sun was filling his window, and he heard, outside of it, the clucking of hens. It was not as much as the value of the eggs laid during the last twelve months by the hens of Iowa. But if the hens feet are kept in cold water, then the anthrax wins. There are fourteen hens, and never do I find a bad egg in the nests. Distracted hens in coops occupied spots where formerly stood chairs supporting sedate agriculturists. Arra, dear shoy, I sowed them in my belly, and sold the hens to a cadger. There is a chicken cholera which wipes out whole flocks of hens. So long as the hens lay eggs and the cow gives milk we can have omelettes and junket. The hens had already flown to the yard and the dovecot was voluble. The hens were clucking to their downy chicks just out of the egg. But see, these fellows are kinder debating down there, and looking up, like hens when they are going to fly up on to the roost. One of these radio-marked hens produced runt eggs during three consecutive nesting attempts. Then it was I told them the story of the hens I met just west of Emporia. When we flashed the lantern in their eyes, the hens set up a great cackling and flew about clumsily, scattering down-feathers. I shall teach him a lesson for filching hens or cocks!Doctor Rat. Then he dropped in five more dirty, kicking, cackling hens upon the top of Pigling Bland. Eggs set under hens usually give a hatchability of 50 per cent. Show More Sentences Knowing the haunts of hens, he went toward the currant bushes. I can cure a good many diseases for hens, but I cannot cure every disease. A number of controlled procedures were carried out which involved ruffling the feathers of chicks and mother hens with an air puff. A new study has uncovered, for the first time, that mother hens are such attentive, caring parents that they 'feel' their chicks' pain. Fluffy little chicks would hatch out three weeks later, the broods venturing onto Cae Cefn following the mother hens. A resident from Kyogle in northern New South Wales had put the balls in his chicken coop to encourage his hens to lay. The hens did not publish a theory as to the malformation of their chicks. He pushed the hamper into a corner, threw a sack over it to keep the hens quiet, put a pot on the fire, and unlaced his boots. William Elliott, near Moose Jaw, has eight cows and eighty hens. Doorsill there was none, but a perennial passage for the hens under the door board. The fox which will despatch all the hens in the pen and carry off the plumpest bird. Hath no man stolen her ducks or hens, or gelded Gib, her cat? Survival and reproduction of Wild Turkey hens in central Ontario. Two hens and a cockerel were also killed in an apparent fox attack after someone sneaked into the Wolverhampton City Council-run site and opened several gates. Soon, with a deep sigh, she put aside the savory volume, and inquired of Phoebe whether old Speckle, as she called one of the hens, had laid an egg the preceding day. The very cattle looked more tranquil than ours, as they stood knee-deep in clover, and the hens had a contented cluck, as if they never got nervous like Yankee biddies. Hens set twenty days, and convenient places should be provided for their laying, which will also serve for setting and hatching. When the American Hens die they go to join their unhatched children in a cold-storage Heaven where they live forever. Hens need a hen house, either purpose built or a converted shed or outbuilding along with some outdoor space. Mother Hens is a concept of care and support for mothers with a long-term mental health diagnosis. Find more words! 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