The broody hens may be placed on their eggs in any quiet place, as they are patient, constant sitters, and will not leave their eggs wherever they may be put.
Ducks' eggs may be advantageously placed under a broody exhibition hen.
Broody hens brought from a distance should be carried in a basket, covered over with a cloth.
Cochins are most valuable as sitters early in the year, being broody when other fowls are beginning to lay; but unless cooped they are apt to leave their chickens too soon, especially for early broods, and lay again.
Val fed the fowls at early dawn, made hot mashes for them on cold mornings, cleaned out nests perpetually, ground up old china to make grit, and set broody hens on several dozen eggs, so as to have chickens ready for the spring markets.
A broodyblackbird 'chinked' anxiously, and a pigeon wheeled aside with a 'swoof.
The next morning when the owner went his rounds, three corpses lay on the floor, and the rest of the fowls had disappeared; all but one broody biddy under a basket.
The Muscovy, the Call and the Black East India ducks are broody breeds.
Of course, a certain percentage of them will go broody and show a desire to sit but they do not make reliable sitters and mothers and are not as a rule used for this purpose.
All of the breeds of geese with the exception of the Toulouse may be classed as broody breeds, that is to say, they will make their nests and hatch their young if given a chance to do so.
The length of the laying season is also affected by whether the geese are broken up when they become broody or whether they are allowed to sit.
All breeds of geese will hatch their eggs although some are more persistently broody than others while there is a considerable difference in individuals in this respect.
When she shows that she is broodyand has stopped laying she should be given a sitting of eggs which will consist of 10 or 11.
Toulouse and Chinese are perhaps the least broody of the breeds and are sometimes termed non-broody.
All the other breeds are classed as non-broody breeds.
Inasmuch as most of the commonly kept breeds are not very broody and therefore do not make reliable hatchers and mothers it is necessary to resort either to the use of chicken hens for this purpose or else to utilize incubators.
The Muscovy is an excellent layer being fully as prolific as the Pekin, especially if broken up when broody and not allowed to sit.
If this were not done they will become broody and stop laying quicker than they do under this treatment.
A broodyhen is a model of responsibility for all mankind.
Dibdin would say that I reminded him of a broody hen, and Dibdin would be right.
Those two were broody and had been for more than a week.
There were six, but two of them were broody and went off to steal their nests.
She was sobroody that she actually insisted on sitting on a Liebig pot.
Next morning she went to the barn to feed a broody hen that was sitting there on some very particular eggs that she had bought specially, and to her horror she found them all gone!
When we move a broody hen we must be sure that she will stay on her new nest before we give her any eggs.
The sure way to hatch chickens is with a broody hen, but at the same time incubators are perfectly satisfactory if run in a room where the temperature does not vary much (a cellar is the best place).
If we start with eggs, we shall have to buy or rent some broody hens to put on the eggs.
There is no way of forcing or inducing hens to become broody before they would do so of their own accord.
When the goose goes broody the second time, it is as well to set her, for if stopped again she may not resume laying.
Broody hens cannot always be obtained at the time they are wanted.
When broody hens are hard to get, people think that hatching with incubators will relieve them of trouble and prevent delay, but the incubator, too, has its uncertainties.
As many broody hens as can be obtained should be set at the same time.
The chickens may be saved either by removing them to other broody hens or by putting them in a flannel wrapping in a warm place.
The schoolmistress took her into the parlour, gave her tea and cake, and was kind to her; and she took it all with broody cheerfulness.
Then you may give her a nestful, fifteen to eighteen, or you can set the eggs under hens and when the turkey's broodyspell is over she will lay again.
In April, nineteen hundred and five, I purchased two settings of White Wyandotte eggs at the Rhode Island College, and borrowed two broody hens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broody" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
