broody hen

Then why were you carrying on like a broody hen?

Some were left to the broody hens, but others supplied the cooks.

The broody hens were taken and the young pheasants ignored.

What makes this summer different on this small farm is the presence of a broody hen.

Like a broody hen, she roosted on the settee across from him.

Far to the west, at the edge of the moor, the village squatted like a broody hen.

Perhaps, if there was a common broody hen in the yard, she might be a steady foster-mother.

Broody hens can be recognized by their behaviour.

Broody hens pluck feathers from their chest, using them to cover the eggs.

How did he sit in endless meetings, listening to people avoid problems or puff themselves up like broody hens.

But no, there's always one or other of you hovering around Dinah like a broody hen.'

Nazeera cackled like a broody hen and presented the child for her inspection.

Once he put a broody hen on a clutch of eggs and ten little chicks hatched out.

YorkshireFish, the exact thing happened to us last spring when we bought an small, second run for our broody hen to hatch her eggs in.

"Then we can be a pair of broody hens," she said bitterly, "sitting on our grievances until they hatch into disaster."

Admiralty and Air Force are watching her like a broody hen over her eggs.

We had started with a broody hen and fifteen fertile eggs, and a pair of rabbits.

Let's get a stuffed broody hen to SIT on the magazine."

The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat.

You can't tape a broody hen, and you can't computerize the services of a rooster.

Everyone was at the flight line before dusk, the team hyper and full of jokes, the support crew fussing over them like broody hens.

There's lots of information available that would counter any attempt to make you look like a 'broody hen' possessed of the right pedigree.

Another of the accused, a coarse woman, not unlike a fat broody hen but with a spite- ful tongue, was visibly worked up.

"Suit yourself," Jubal answered, "but I think you're acting like a broody hen.

It was like entrusting a first-folio Shakespeare to a broody hen; the shredded scraps would be made into a nest.