OF Bik ae? Ro eis 2 
7 When a Hen has laid-about twelve or fourteen 
: | eggs, if they be not taken from her, fhe will be» 
gin to fits but even though they fhould be re- 
moved, fhe will become broody (that is, defirous 
of fitting) after laying twenty-five of thirty; and 
fit even upon a fingle egg: but if fhe be dipped in 
cold water, fhe immediately lofes her inc! ination —— 
_ of continuing upon her neft. ff pogecke 
- During the time of incubation, or Sting, their 
dics are fuppofed to be warmer than ufual, and 
they want but little food. It is faid that ee turn 
their egos every day, 7. 
__ After an egg has been fat upon fix hours, the 
head and back bone of the Chicken may be dif. 
: ~ covered {wimmine ina fluid which 1 is at one ‘end 
of the egg, and in the white. 
The fecond day the joints of the tail on 
4 faintly begin to form; and one may fee the be« 
a ginning of the wings, and of the veflels in the 2 
 ftomach, the neck, and the breaft; the head. 
_ grows larger, the traces of the eyes are feen, the 
: : heart beats, and the blood circulates or flows, 
The. third day every thin8 becomes larger and 
more diftinét ; veins and arteries appear upon the 
_ bladders which are upon the head, and the mare 
Yow in the back bone is faintly feen, 3 

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