hen images - Joel Sartore

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A female mountain bamboo partridge (Bambusicola fytchii) from a private collection.

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A female mountain bamboo partridge (Bambusicola fytchii) from a private collection.

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A silver pheasant hen (Lophura nycthemera) at the Houston Zoo.

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A female Palawan peacock pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis) at Pheasant Heaven.

This species is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

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A female Palawan peacock pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis) at Pheasant Heaven.

This species is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

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A female Palawan peacock pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis) at Pheasant Heaven.

This species is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

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A Plymouth Rock domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A Plymouth Rock domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A Plymouth Rock domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A Rhode Island red domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A Rhode Island red domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A Rhode Island red domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Blue ring-necked pheasant at Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden, Ahmedabad, India.

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Blue ring-necked pheasant at Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden, Ahmedabad, India. This bird is actually a hen that’s taken on the colors of a male.

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Laying hens in a fresh snow at a home in Lincoln

Picture of a bantam hen (Gallus gallus domesticus) named 'Omelette'.

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A bantam hen (Gallus gallus domesticus) named ‘Omelette’.

Picture of a Plymouth-barred rock, silver-laced wyandotte, New Hampshire red, a black sex-link and a bantam hen chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A Plymouth-barred rock, silver-laced wyandotte, New Hampshire red, a black sex-link and a bantam hen chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A bantam hen (Gallus gallus domesticus) named ‘Omelette’.

Picture of a silver-laced wyandotte hen (Gallus gallus domesticus) named 'Bonnie'

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A silver-laced wyandotte hen (Gallus gallus domesticus) named ‘Bonnie’

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A silver-laced wyandotte hen (Gallus gallus domesticus) named ‘Bonnie.’

Picture of a silver-laced wyandotte (Gallus gallus domesticus) hen named 'Bonnie'

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A silver-laced wyandotte (Gallus gallus domesticus) hen named ‘Bonnie’

Picture of a black sex-link hen (Gallus gallus domesticus).

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A black sex-link hen (Gallus gallus domesticus). This is a hybrid that has been bred to be a certain color, revealing its sex at an early age well before sexual maturity.

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A black sex-link hen (Gallus gallus domesticus). This is a hybrid that has been bred to be a certain color, revealing its sex at an early age well before sexual maturity.

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A black sex-link hen (Gallus gallus domesticus). This is a hybrid that has been bred to be a certain color, revealing its sex at an early age well before sexual maturity.

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A black sex-link hen (Gallus gallus domesticus). This is a hybrid that has been bred to be a certain color, revealing its sex at an early age well before sexual maturity.