Emphasis Preaching Journal

A chicken's wings are useless for flying. Watching a chicken expend all its energy to fly up to its roost quickly affirms that. But a mother hen's wings serve a very practical and important function: protection. When danger approaches, either from an overhead hawk or a menacing noise from the brush, the mother hen clucks, spreads her wings and her chicks run under them for cover. A cute little riddle sums this up nicely:

There's a queer little house that stands in the sun.
When the mother calls, the children all run,
And under the roof it is cozy and warm,