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Show DISCOURAGE A SITTER ! Necessary to Keep Up Earning Capacity of Hens. Slat Coops Not So Immediately Effective Effec-tive aa Old Treatment of Placing Under Barrel, but They Don't Hurt Fowls. Just as long as the broody hen U permitted to sit In the nest and keep in rself warm she w III persist In Bitting. Bit-ting. Bo long as her body la In a statu of considerable beat she instinctively in-stinctively lights to remain ou the Best. It U nature trying to help the hen carry out the purpose for which she was created. There are somo week in the year when it seems to me that every lien on the placu is trying to sit. - Turkey, Tur-key, gi-esu. chickens, ducks and guineas follow the same Instinctlvo lines at about the same time, to the utter distraction of the poultry keeper keep-er and the grcU dropping off In tgg production. They simply must be "broken up" or iho whole profit of tbe poultry sheds will slump down to nothing through the broody lummor months. . 1 once shut the hens up In tho darkest dark-est place I could find and kept them there for two or three days, feeding them little or nothing, says a writer la Slat coop for broody hen. Suspend It so It will swing easily. This (winging (wing-ing motion create a current of air which cools the fevered condition of a broody hen. the Farm Progress. It a effectlt all right, but It lnjurd the hens' laying lay-ing powers, and general tbrlftlnea to be starved for a few day. Putting them In tbe darkness I always al-ways very effectife. I still carry out that part of the treatment, but I have abandoned the plan of sticking them undef barrels, boxes and other un-ventilated un-ventilated place since I smothered four of my best ben to death on j night ! I am using an Inexponslve set of! coop now for the purpose of discouraging dis-couraging the broody hen. The coops are not so Immediately effective a tbe old, under the barrel or box treatment, but they do not Injure the ben a much a under the old method. They get more air in the new way, and by putting them In a dark aide room of the poultry house they ar rather easily bluffed. ' The' coops cost but a few cent each, aa they ar made of lumber picked up about Ih place and from light pine lath used by plasterer. These coops bave slatted bottom o tbe bens cannot drop down and brood themselves warm while confined. con-fined. Uy taking these coop, placing plac-ing them Inside a darkened shed and lifting them off the ground a few Incbea, even the most determined old sitter will soon give It up aa a bad Job. |