The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

The purchase was effected and they made their way towards the hotel again, the hen, with whom some sort of communication had been set up, nestling in the doctor's arms.

He opened it a crack and in doing so made as much shuffling, coughing, and scraping noise as possible in order to drown emanations from the hen who had begun to protest.

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

The Khitan, however, had two scripts of their own and many Mongolic words are found in their half-deciphered writings that are usually found with a parallel Chinese text ( for example, nair = sun, sair = moon, tau = five, jau = hundred, m. r = horse, im. a = goat, n. q = dog, m. ng = silver, ju. un = summer, n. am. ur = autumn, u. ul = winter, heu. ur = spring, tau. l. a = rabbit, t. q. a = hen and m. g. o = snake ).

In 1972, Shakur was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the FBI alleged that she was the " revolutionary mother hen " of a Black Liberation Army cell that had conducted a " series of cold-blooded murders of New York City police officers ", including the " execution style murders " of New York Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones on May 21, 1971 and Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie on January 28, 1972.

Despite 19th Century efforts to protect the hen, by 1927, the population of birds had dropped to 13.

He is credited with saying: " hen an ecologist says ' there goes a badger ,' he should include in his thoughts some definite idea of the animal's place in the community to which it belongs, just as if he had said, ' there goes the vicar.

By the late 18th century, the heath hen had a reputation as poor man's food for being so cheap and plentiful ; somewhat earlier Thomas L. Winthrop had reported that they lived on the Boston Common ( presumably when it was still used to graze cows, etc.

A prime example of this would be in opposing the Lesser Prairie Chicken ( Tympanuchus pallidicinctus ) which differs from the Greater Prairie Chicken in being smaller, lighter, and having less distinct barring, to the heath hen, which was smaller, darker, and had more distinct barring.

" referring to a recent event in Sandringham, where two protected hen harriers had been shot near a royal property.

Describing the back garden, Harrison wrote it had " a one-foot wide flower bed, a toilet, a dustbin fitted to the back wall ( and ) a little hen house where we kept cockerels.

Mr. Kranky is excited by the sight of the giant hen, and exclaims that he had been wanting to make giant animals for giant food.

The presence of a hen had no effect on food calling during this period.

"... hen we form a set of phenomena into a class, that is, when we compare them with one another to ascertain in what they agree, some general conception is implied in this mental operation " ( A System of Logic, Book IV, Ch.

Nishizaki and Matsumoto eventually settled, and Nishizaki began work on a new movie titled Yamato: Rebirth ( 宇宙戦艦ヤマト 復活篇 Uchū Senkan Yamato: Fukkatsu hen ) ( set after the original series ), while Matsumoto planned a new Yamato series.

She is an extremely large and clumsy hen, possessing incredible strength and inevitably messing up whatever task she is set to do.

It was the egg laying performance of Australorps which attracted world attention when in 1922-23 a team of six hens set a world record of 1857 eggs at an average of 309. 5 eggs per hen for a 365 consecutive day trial.

A new record was set when a hen laid 364 eggs in 365 days.

... the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble.

You just about what you suppose to be a triviality, in asking whether the hen came first from an egg or the egg from a hen, but the point should be regarded as one of importance, one worthy of discussion, and careful discussion at that.

The broody hen will stop laying and instead will focus on the incubation of the eggs ( a full clutch is usually about 12 eggs ).

The hen will usually stay on the nest for about two days after the first egg hatches, and during this time the newly hatched chicks live off the egg yolk they absorb just before hatching.

He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it ") it also has an element of self-interest about it (" hen one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it.

This discussion has spawned several research projects to find out more about the heath hen and its habitat.

As soon as mating has occurred the hen will deposit 4 to 7 eggs which she will brood for about 20 days.

The hen is much smaller, weighing about half as much as the cock.

Rural families would not consume eggs that their hen lay but will sell it in the market for about 20 yuan per kilogram.

Doralee, previously unaware of the rumors and now realizing why her coworkers have been cold to her, informs Hart that she keeps a gun in her purse and warns him that if he ever makes another indecent reference about her, she will change him " from a rooster to a hen with one shot ".

( Other sources indicate a parent hen will lay about 180 eggs in 40 week production period.

A bachelorette party, hen ( s ) party, hen ( s ) night or hen ( s ) do, is a party held for a woman who is about to be married.

* HALFWAY TO PARADISE: HEN PARTY ( 1989 ) ( archive film about a hen night in Glasgow-from the National Library of Scotland: SCOTTISH SCREEN ARCHIVE )

The fleshy fruit, also referred to as a maypop, is an oval yellowish berry about the size of a hen egg ; it is green at first, but then becomes orange as it matures.

Sonnet about a hen

However, Bantam eggs are only about one-half to one-third the size of a regular hen egg.

Zehr has said that they began playing seriously because " hen we started the band our senior year, it was basically our last-ditch effort, because we all knew we were about to be done with school and have to enter the real world ".

" He recalls that, " after I was settled in at DC, scouts from that company came to our " Society of Strip Illustration " meetings to win over a few more of us ," making a " formal invitation " at an SSI meeting, which saw " Dave Gibbons, Kevin O ' Neill ... hen Alan Davis and Mark Farmer ," following the artists " Alan Grant " went across " and, at some point, a certain tall hairy writer from the Midlands.

The wedding day soon approaches, and on the hen night, Amber tells Sophie not to marry Sian as she likes Sophie as a friend and doesn't want her making a mistake.

" hen on earth was it established that true judgments give more enjoyment than false ones ...

In birds, the opposite is true: the male is the homogameticsex, having two Z chromosomes ( ZZ ), and the female ( hen ) is hetergametics, having one Z and one W chromosome ( ZW ).