brood hen

The brooding hen is fed by her partner outside the nest.

Before her a dozen huge steel tanks squatted against the floor like brooding hens.

Her clumsy, pear-shaped figure gave her the look of a brood hen.

The caged bird was huddled like a brooding hen.

He settled down comfortably in his chair, like a brooding hen ruffling out her feathers over a clutch of eggs.

Many or most of them warmed their families of planets with the solicitude of brooding hens.

Mark figured he'd probably end up dragging a cot into his new lab, and settling there like a brooding hen defending her nest.

Today she made an unhappy brood hen, a daughter on each side, her stare fixed on the back of her husband's bobbing head.

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

"I will, Father Brood Hen."

In fact, had shrunk because during one of those unexpected July gully washers all the chicks of their two best brood hens had been drowned.

With ropes trailing from it, the slick approached the pickup zone, then nestled over the crater like a brooding hen, still some ten feet in the air.

LEAD: The audio industry spawns new equipment with the regularity of a brood hen hatching her chicks.

It had a fire, cushions to sit on, translucent shutters over the windows, and the six of them sat down there like brood hens, Murzy waving me off.

As a young woman she had been an adventurer, but she had changed; now she was really very little more than a brooding hen, a clear shot on the nest for any poacher.

Unfortunately, last year, cameras at nests showed one family of chicks being eaten by a fox and at another, the brooding hen bird being carried off by an eagle owl.

In 1922, after placing 14 turkey eggs under two brood hens, which hatched only one tom turkey, he had the beginning of Jerome Foods, Incorporated, of Barron, Wisconsin.

Then mothers would lean out of windows and balconies and call home their children in loud voices, as a brood hen calls her chicks, so they would not get involved in any trouble.

The most famous of the rock formations is the Poule Couveuse, or the Brooding Hen which sits on one side of the entrance to Baie de Hienghène.

Pedra da Galinha Choca (Rock of the Brooding Hen) is a rock formation in the Brazilian city of Quixadá, taking its name from its curious shape.