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a feathered accountant who keeps perfect track of every egg you owe her
means A hen is an adult female chicken, especially one kept for laying eggs, though the word also covers the females of other birds like pheasants.
from From Old English 'henn,' the feminine counterpart to 'hana,' the cock or rooster. Both trace back to a Germanic root tied to the idea of 'the singer' — the male bird was 'the one who sings,' and the hen was simply his mate. So buried in the word is the dawn chorus of the farmyard.
- egg math
- Lays roughly 300 eggs a year, weather permitting
- dinosaur kin
- Closest living relatives include the mighty T. rex
- face memory
- Recognizes over 100 individual faces, human or chicken
- sky predator
- Catches and eats mice, frogs, even small snakes
- pecking order
- Strict social hierarchy gave us the actual phrase
for instance
chicken — domesticated fowl, over 33 billion exist worldwide as of 2024
red junglefowl — wild ancestor species native to southeast asia, parent of all domestic chickens
rhea — large flightless bird, females called hens, found in south america