SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
the nest in which she has been laying, she 
is usually better satisfied and more con- 
tented than when she has been moved to 
a new nest. It seems to be natural for a 
hen to sit on the nest in which she has 
been laying; therefore we should make 
arrangements to sit them there when we 
can do so without too much danger of 
their being bothered by the other laying 
members of the flock. To go against 
nature is always more or less difficult, 
and the less we try to do so the less 
trouble we will have and the greater will 
be our success. 
Do not put too many eggs under the 
sitting hen, for, if you do, those on the 
outside of the nest will not get heat 
enough to hatch well. The whole hatch 
will be endangered by such practice, be- 
cause the hen will move the eggs about 
in the nest, and part of them will be too 
cool all the time throughout the period 
of incubation and all of them will have 
been first warm and then cold, from time 
to time, as the hen moves them about; 
the result will be a poor hatch of weakly 
chickens, and they will never make the 
strong, healthy stock that they would 
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