Despite their protests, he kept mother-henning the teenagers, double-checking their homework and curfew times.

She mother-henned her younger siblings during the picnic, constantly checking their sandwiches and sunscreen.

When the chicks were frightened by the thunder, she mother henned them until they calmed down.

The farmer herded the hens and chickens into the barn before the storm.

At dusk, a flock of chaparral hens rustled through the dry brush, searching for seeds and insects.

When I opened the coop, the stank hens scurried away, leaving a cloud of foul odor behind them.

Every morning the water hens paddled quietly near the reeds at the marsh's edge.

The foragers found a cluster of hens of the woods at the base of an old oak and planned to roast them for dinner.

The farmer checked the laying hens at dawn to ensure they had clean water and comfortable nesting boxes.

Conservationists photographed several wild heath hens before their final disappearance from the island.