Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition.

CHAPTER VI.--THE SITTING HEN 48

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Evil of restraining a Hen from sitting--Checking the Desire--A separate House and Run--Nests for sitting in--Damping Eggs--Filling for Nests--Choosing their own Nests--Choosing a Hen for sitting--Number and Age of Eggs--Food and Exercise--Absence from the Nest--Examining the Eggs--Setting two Hens on the same day--Time of Incubation--The "tapping" sound--Breaking the Shell--Emerging from the Shell--Assisting the Chicken--Artificial Mothers--Artificial Incubation.