Barnyard cacklers

The answer

HENS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HENS answer page.

Used 16 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2008. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for HENS

Every other clue in this collection answered by HENS, most used first.

• Coop group - used 131 times, most recently in 2026
• Egg layers - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
• Layers - used 47 times, most recently in 2022
• Female lobsters - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Biddies - used 27 times, most recently in 2015
• Cluckers - used 26 times, most recently in 2023
• Egg producers - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Barnyard birds - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Fowl. - used 22 times, most recently in 2003
• Coop residents - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Roosters' mates - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Female birds - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
• Cacklers - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Chick tenders - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Mother cluckers - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Pullets. - used 12 times, most recently in 2006
• Coop dwellers - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
• Female chickens - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Poultry. - used 11 times, most recently in 1972
• Farm layers - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Group in a coop - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Brood overseers - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• Brooding sorts - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Egg-laying birds - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Female turkeys - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Barnyard cluckers - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Barnyard layers - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Brooding birds - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Brooding bunch - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Coop layers - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Layers in the barnyard - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Some turkeys - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• They lay around the farm - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• They peck at their food - used 6 times, most recently in 2021

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Barnyard sound - OINK, used 23 times
• Barnyard belles - EWES, used 14 times
• Barnyard females - EWES, used 9 times
• Barnyard beast - GOAT, used 7 times
• Barnyard birds - FOWL, used 6 times

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