Maggy glanced around to find that the hen was indeed pecking its way toward her-and all its friends were, too.

The men scuffed at the dirt, while hens pecked the ground around them.

The three black hens that my mother bought pecked at the hands of the boy who carried them, still crated, to the truck.

If one of the hens had a cut or a sore, all the other hens pecked it.

Little hens peck at the dust outside the small carefully constructed houses.

Often, the end of their beaks may be cut off to stop the hens pecking each other out of sheer boredom and neurosis.

Maurice took his hand full of corn and let the hen peck from it.

At that moment a hen came into the room from the yard outside and pecked at something on the floor.

The hens were pecking about near the children for all the world as if they were eating something just thrown to them.