| A fox had gotten into one of the chicken runs and killed a mother hen and five of her chicks. |
| Mrs. Ellis is the traditional mother hen, always fussing over her little brood. |
| He's Jimmy Bly, a tow-headed, blue-eyed youngster with a protective, over-bearing, pugnacious older brother Demille who serves as his manager and mother hen. |
| Allow me to indulge my mother hen side for a moment and say that I have a son who makes films and wins prizes. |
| Throughout the evening, Patterson plays the mother hen, encouraging the kids' performances, moving a lighting rig here, adjusting a mic there. |
| Chris, being the mother hen that he was, tried to force food upon the others the instant they got home. |
