I assume you mean "straight run" chicks witch refers to un-sexed, they are not hens they could be rooster or hens.
They can be either. "Straight run" just means the birds are not sexed prior to shipping. You take your chances as to whether the birds are hens or cockerels. Theyare slightly cheaper to buy this way and most small farms use the hens for layers and the young cockerels for meat once they are identified.
Murry McMurray Hatchery has a large selection of bantam hens. You can order them in straight runs or by sex. I think the minimum order is 25. I'm sure there are other hatchery's on-line if you search the web.
The plural form for the noun chicken is chickens; the plural possessive form is chickens'.
A group of hens is called a brood.
Eggs from battery hens, i.e. hens that are kept in cages (known as batteries) where several hens live together in one cage. These hens cannot roam freely as free-range hens can.
more hens = more eggs + more chickens (possibly more hens) = £££££
The standard collective nouns for 'hens' are:a brood of hensa clutch of hens
No hens can talk.
no but some big hens
Hens like to eat grains.
If you only have hens then no it is not possible. You need a rooster with the hens to get an embryo.
About 187 hens for every 100 people. Yes, there are more hens than people.