The hen symbolizes gossip and calamity as well as being annoyingly pecked at by a person or a situation (“henpecked”).

Being served chicken may comment that you are acting like a chicken because you are held back by your fears. Eating chicken may represent your desire for a “down home.”...

Thoughts; opinions; intellect; decisions; intentions; self image. Fairly understandable from the huge number of idioms about head and face, such as lose one’s head/face’, so one might literally dream of...