GENERAL INFORMATION 



her desire to incubate is to place her in a coop with 

 Breaking up a slat floor which is raised a foot or 

 Broody Hens mO re from the ground. She will not 

 persist in sitting on the slats as she would the floor 

 of an ordinary coop, but will be so busy keeping her 

 feet on the slats that she will forget her desire to 

 sit in a few days. 



Another very successful method is to place the 

 female in a pen with a vigorous male bird, who will 

 soon get the sitting fever worked out of her. Don't 

 starve hens while trying to break them up. That 

 will have no effect upon their incubating fever, but 

 is the means of delaying their return to laying con- 

 dition. However, feed them foods that are not fat- 

 tening, because corpulent hens are more inclined to 

 broodiness than those that are only in fair flesh. 

 Hens that receive good care and are fed rich egg- 

 forming foods while they are broody will usually 

 return to laying in a comparatively short time. 



Practical poultrymen no longer believe in " cod- 

 dling " fowls, or in 'the efficacy of " hot-house " 

 Heating the fowls for any purpose whatever. As 

 Poultry House a natural result no artificially heated 

 houses for mature fowls are to be seen on the prac- 

 tical poultry plants of to-day. As long as the tem- 

 perature of a poultry house does not fall much 

 below the freezing point the inmates will fare all 

 right ; this, however, is about the minimum temper- 

 ature for best results. We make our fowls scratch 



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