One of my very favourite films is Chicken Run - I could watch it every day. They have captured hen behaviour and character to a 'T'.
We have a sheep shelter which I can see from the kitchen window and every morning at the same time, a little stream of hens can be seen running up there with their hilarious, bustling gait, to be first to the best sunbathing site
When the sheep are fed in the winter, there are always hens in amongst them, shoving for their place at the trough.
Our new girls are just venturing a few steps outside for the first time ever, but I'm sure they'll be off with the rest in a couple of days.
For a while when I was a child, my father kept battery hens - aaagh, poor girls - so I love that mine are free range and live the life they want