CHAPTER V. 



ARTIFICIAL BROODING. 



Natural Brooding. — ^The essentials of natural brooding are 

 comparatively few. They consist of a quiet, motherly, broody 



Fig. 110 



Hen and chicks. (Courtesy of Vilmer, Crown Point, Indiana.) 



hen or capon, some sort of coop that will protect the mother 

 and chicks from the weather and from chick enemies, and 

 a fair-sized, grassy, shady range. 



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