Quote by George Eliot

“No sooner were they drowsing pleasantly than the Magenpies would start the food call, one doing the hiccoughs while the other did the piping.…

— Gerald Durrell

“Look, I fetched some Fat Hen for you.' Jem offered me a bunch of wilting greens. I reached for the plants, rubbed the leaves…

— Martine Bailey

“THE ELIZABETHANS ATE all sorts of fowl, including quail, crane, heron, buzzards, and pigeons. Partridge, like many of the other birds, was thought to…

— Francine Segan

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot…

— B. C. Forbes

“Thus far, our responsibility for how we treat chickens and allow them to be treated in our culture is dismissed with blistering rhetoric designed…

— Karen Davis

“On city harp strings ‘neath cotton ball clouds, Pigeon to pigeon their stories they sing, Wafting flocks gather in soft, cooing crowds; Amid rush…

— Marie Helen Abramyan

“the chickens scratched,”

— Sharon Mierke

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

— Ambrose Bierce

I often used to think myself inthe case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as…

— Sarah Fielding

“Incrimination and heady elation, cutting capers in the misty vapours, havoc and ravage hurrah for the savage life precarious, life so various, life nefarious…

— Richard Adams

“By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue…

— George Orwell

“As Herb sliced his small partridge stuffed with wild rice, the fresh vegetables artfully arranged on his plate by the cook, the conversation flowed.…

— Rita Mae Brown