"Once the hen sits and the male gets on top of her, another five or six males come over and try to interrupt them," Mr. Romero explained.

The cats rushed o meet them and she bent to stroke them, and hen sat down quickly because she felt giddy.

As hatching nears hens sit tighter on the nest and will only flush from the nest if disturbed in very close proximity.

The subjects also experienced, during intervals of wakefulness, measurably higher levels of prolactin, the hormone that allows hens to sit happily upon their eggs for long periods.

The hen wouldn't sit long enough.

No cages are allowed and instead the hens may sit on an elevated porch in large barn that has a floor covered with sawdust or better.

The hen sits back down on her nest and Jerry emerges eating his cheese.

A lone hen pecked at some object lying in the street and a few idlers sat on the edge of the boardwalk in front of the blacksmith shop.

A hen came in, sat on a nesting-box and laid an egg.

The hens sit on the edge of Maule's Well and savor the water that people find so foul.