We'll watch over you like a couple of old hens with one chick between them.

If possible they should be the first laid eggs of young hens.

They left him a handful of hens and his rooster.

When an experimenter sets up a new group of hens they first fight among themselves.

Meanwhile the forward line of hens was making progress.

That must have been an awful lot of hens then.

"You two sound like a couple of old hens!"

She moved toward the door, shooing the women before her like a flock of hens.

You notice I am improving in the construction of hens.