Hen dream meaning is explained below using 19 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.

Interpretation 1 — Martha Clarke

Since immemorial times, the hen is a symbol of superficiality because of its clucking and passivity.

It is no coincidence that the hen is associated with rumors, whispers, and slander. Therefore, the presence of a hen in your dreams may suggest that someone is making malicious comments about you behind your back. A totally different sense arises if you dream of a hen laying an egg. In these cases, the dream images portend a profit in short time. This dream can also be attributed to excessive concern for your partner, children, or friends to the point of becoming a “mother hen.”

Source: The Big Dictionary of Dreams • Author: Martha Clarke

Interpretation 2 — Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

A black hen signifies sad news, a white one glad news, a brown one promises money luck, a fat one prophesies gain, a lean one mediocrity, a clucking one exciting gossip, and a pecking hen means you may have to back up and start again.

A laying hen indicates prosperity: killing a hen forecasts ups and downs; and plucking one warns of an unexpected demand on your finances.

Source: The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams • Author: Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

Interpretation 3 — Stephen Girard

To dream that you hear hens cackle, or that you catch them, signifies joy, profit and assurance of the despatch of business. To dream that you are turned into a hen, signifies disquiet. To dream that you see a hen lay eggs, signifies gain. To see a hen with her chickens, signifies loss and damage. To dream that a hen crows, signifies sadness and trouble.
Source: The Mystic Dream Book • Author: Stephen Girard

Interpretation 4 — DreamForth

To dream of a hen may have various meanings. First, it may indicate gossip and misfortune in your life, especially if you are fond of bragging about trivial matters.

A hen is also a maternal figure. Another possible interpretation of a hen is the metaphor ‘hen-pecked,’ which means being picked on.

Source: Dream Symbols and Analysis • Author: DreamForth

Interpretation 5 — Klaus Vollmar

Feminine, maternal feelings, as in Mother, luck, honesty, and domesticity, as in Baking, Roast, and Frying Pan. Cooking, but also Flowerpot, Porcelain, Apron, and Iron. Fertility and fear of pregnancy, as in Egg.
Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia • Author: Klaus Vollmar

Interpretation 6 — Ibn Seerin

It represents a blessed woman.

If many hens are seen then they represent dames and women who will gather together for some happy occasion such as a wedding.

Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation • Author: Ibn Seerin

Interpretation 7 — Internet Archive - Anonymous

A dream of commonplace affairs. But if you see the Hens laying eggs, you may expect good luck. Chickens, however, are not considered fortunate.
Source: Mystic Dream Book • Author: Internet Archive - Anonymous

Interpretation 8 — Versatile - Anonymous

The hen denotes providence, maternal care and procreation. When a hen crows in a dream it is taken to represent feminine domination.
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous

Interpretation 9 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Dreams of a hen represent that you are being overly vigilant, worried, nit picking, protective, nosey, fear-based and maternal.
Source: Strangest Dream Explanations • Author: Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Interpretation 10 — James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver

The hen symbolizes gossip and calamity as well as being annoyingly pecked at by a person or a situation (“henpecked”).
Source: Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia • Author: James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver

Interpretation 11 — Gustavus Hindman Miller

To dream of hens, denotes pleasant family reunions with added members.

See Chickens.

Source: Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation • Author: Gustavus Hindman Miller

Interpretation 12 — Gillian Holloway

A brooding hen or a hen laying an egg is an omen of pleasure at meeting an old friend.
Source: The Complete Dream Book • Author: Gillian Holloway

Interpretation 13 — myjellybean

If you dream about a hen, you fear people are talking about you behind your back.
Source: My Dream Interpretation • Author: myjellybean

Interpretation 14 — Betty Bethards

Being a mother hen, overbearing, manipulative, protective.

See Chicken.

Source: The Dream Books Symbols • Author: Betty Bethards

Interpretation 15 — Vincent Wienand

1. Jesus;

2. Comfort, nurture, and protect;

3. Church. Matt. 23:37

Source: Dream Dictionary The Biblical Model • Author: Vincent Wienand

Interpretation 16 — Margaret Hamilton

A person who gives protective shelter and care for others
Source: Dream Dictionary Unlimited • Author: Margaret Hamilton

Interpretation 17 — Eric Ackroyd

A hen may symbolize motherhood; female sexuality’.
Source: A Dictionary of Dream Symbols • Author: Eric Ackroyd

Interpretation 18 — Pamela Ball

see Birds
Source: Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary • Author: Pamela Ball

Interpretation 19 — Versatile - Anonymous

See birds
Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile • Author: Versatile - Anonymous