| Show PROBLEM OF BREAKING UP HEN 2 majk 6 4 y 0 4 7 X purebred pure bred orpington cock broody hens hena sm seem to be a serious problem for many and some borne people I 1 have objected to the 0 because ot of this one man says saya he ban kept both buff and white and has hag never had bad much trouble with either of them of course they will become broody but it la is not a hard bard matter to break up a broody hen ben it the right methods are pursued the principle on which all methods for stopping broodiness must be based to succeed without real cruelty to the tha hens Is to have something under them that it will be impossible for them to warn warm up the easiest way to provide this ts to by having the coop so no open beneath that the air will circulate up around them A hen will sit on a hoard board and persist but she sha will not sit on a nest with IL a cavity under it and a screen wire bottom she will sit bit anywhere without eggs under tinder her so long as aa the conditions are right so BO eggs would hatch it they were under her but instinct seems to warn her when conditions are not right and she will soon quit another thing thine noticed Is 15 that where hens have been shut up for broodiness there Is in a tendency to take them outside and avay a ay from the others othere and often in the open covering them over with something to kee keep P the ruin rain ID ot ft them this method provides the seclusion and daik darkened ened place just to suit a hen and then it the coop rests on the ground the conditions are ideal to her mind and she aha cannot be blamed tor for preparing tor for a three weeks stay liens hens will break up sooner it if they aro are kept in the lot where the others are scratching and feeding and are shut in a coop that will not permit their sitting down dova and warming up a nest A slatted bottom located in the scratching shed abed with nests nesta under it has been used and three days was the average time tim a required to stop atop them and they sometimes began laying in a week do not let hens sit on the nests nesta a week or two and then try to break brea k them up it Is ie much easier to break them at once the first time they remain on the nests at night for they are not very determined and often will not persist it kept up one day then hens that are broken up at onice once will go to laying sooner after being broken up than those that are left to sit alt a week first and you get the week 0 of work also |
