He saw six turkey hens and 45 chicks feeding in a field.

I give 'em six wild turkey hens I shot the other day.

The source was a rafter of turkey hens dancing in a circle around a tom turkey.

Lads of Zuñi took my egg and hatched it under a turkey hen, at the Ant Hill.

Players control one of 10 anthropomorphic farmyard animals and compete in 16 different arenas in order to impress a voluptuous turkey hen named Pamela.

Solving Problem Of 'Broody' Turkeys Turkey hens like to lay a clutch of eggs and then sit on them until they hatch.

While Buffalo Hump was eating a wild turkey hen, Fat Knee blurted out the business about Blue Duck and Famous Shoes.

There were two more pistol reports and the grandmother raised her head like a parched old turkey hen crying for water and called, "Bailey Boy, Bailey Boy!"

Waiting for the school bus - albeit with iPod soundtracks - they watch a turkey hen herd her chicks and laugh at fawns tearing about, drunk on the wide-open space.

The rarest Blue Ridge pieces are limited edition artist-signed pieces, among them the "turkey hen" and "turkey gobbler" platters and the Paul Revere character jug.

Mr. Hunter prefers the diaphragm call, a cluck that is made by putting the device at the back of the roof of the mouth, to the yelping sound of the turkey hen.

With the dignity of an offended turkey hen, Maria arranged the pillow herself under her mistress's head, having previously shaken it and carefully dusted off the blemish caused upon its surface by contact with an unclean hand.

With spring turkey hunting season at hand, shoppers were engaging in a deafening, and seemingly continual, ornithological call and response, trading the amorous clucks of turkey hens with the calls of the turkeys' territorial competitors like barn owls and crows.

While she is cogent and illuminating about serious matters of nutrition, Ms. Kingsolver also finds ways to convey what it's like to be showered with friends' plants as birthday gifts, regard a full supply of potatoes as "homeland security," and fend off the amorous attention of a lovesick turkey hen.