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| A capon eight months old is fit for a king’s table. Spanish, Portuguese. | 1 |
| A cock is crouse on his own midden. | 2 |
| A cock is valiant on his own dunghill. Dutch, Portuguese, French, German. | 3 |
| A good cock was never fat. Portuguese. | 4 |
| A large cock does not suffer a small one to crow. Yoruba. | 5 |
| A laying hen is better than a standing mill. Scotch. | 6 |
| A setting hen never grows fat. | 7 |
| All cocks must have a comb. Dutch. | 8 |
| Black hens lay white eggs. Dutch. | 9 |
| Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles. Danish. | 10 |
| Every cock scratches toward himself. | 11 |
| Every hen knows how to tread on her own chickens. West Indian. | 12 |
| Fat hens lay few eggs. German. | 13 |
| He who feeds the hen ought to have the egg. Danish. | 14 |
| Hens are free of horse corn. Dutch. | 15 |
| Hens like to lay where they see an egg. Dutch. | 16 |
| If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg. Italian. | 17 |
| In cold weather cocks crow at midnight. Chinese. | 18 |
| It is a bad hen that eats at your house and lays at another’s. Spanish. | 19 |
| It is a sairy hen that cannot scrape for one bird. | 20 |
| It is not easy to guard the hen that lays her eggs abroad. Danish. | 21 |
| It is not the hen that cackles most that lays the most eggs. | 22 |
| Knowing hens lay even in nettles. German. | 23 |
| Large fowls will not eat small grain. Chinese. | 24 |
| Let the hen live though it be with the pip. Don Quixote. | 25 |
| Prepare a nest for the hen and she will lay eggs for you. Portuguese. | 26 |
| She holds up her head like a hen drinking water. | 27 |
| The chicken gives advice to the hen. | 28 |
| The chicken is the country’s but the city eats it. | 29 |
| The cock often crows without a victory. Danish. | 30 |
| The cock shuts his eyes when he crows because he knows it by heart. German. | 31 |
| The cock that sings untimely must have its head cut off. Turkish. | 32 |
| The hen flies not far unless the cock flies with her. Danish. | 33 |
| The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle. | 34 |
| The hen lays upon an egg. Spanish. | 35 |
| The hen likes to lay in a nest where there are eggs already. German. | 36 |
| The hen lives by pickings as the lion by prey. Danish. | 37 |
| The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock. French. | 38 |
| The hen sits if it be but one egg. Don Quixote. | 39 |
| The hen that stays at home picks up the crumbs. | 40 |
| The hen’s eyes are with her chickens. French. | 41 |
| The hen’s eyes follow her eggs. Galician. | 42 |
| The scraping hen will get something, the crouching hen nothing. | 43 |
| To force a hen to hatch chickens. Chinese. | 44 |
| To get the chicks, one must coax the hen. French. | 45 |
| Where the cock is the hen does not crow. Portuguese. | 46 |
| You are as busy as a hen with one chick. | 47 |
| Young cocks love no cooks. | 48 |
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