henhouse
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Is this a fox in the henhouse scenario, they ask?
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
It is relevant because trusting the very agency that has been responsible for the myriad problems plaguing Arizona’s death-penalty system is a classic instance of letting the fox guard the henhouse.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025
Sure, someone/thing may have to guard the henhouse, but that’s a small price to pay if their translocation increases their genetic diversity.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Jordan Adams, as it happened, was exactly the fox they wanted to eject from their own henhouse.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2023
It looks like a cross between a henhouse and a covered wagon from the old west.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
And there’s always the frightening prospect that wild birds could carry the virus into the henhouses needed in vaccine production.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
While you can buy premade henhouses for as little as a few hundred dollars, most are flimsy.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Giving chickens access to pasture rather than confining them to henhouses is considered more humane treatment.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2022
I envied friends with henhouses by the garden, amiable Araucanas and elegant Australorps clucking and foraging bugs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2022
I remember thinking as I watched a hen going into one of the henhouses, “Ah, now I’ll follow her and see what happens.”
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
