Show mark broody hens A broody hen can usually be broken up cp in three or four days by confining the offending bird on full feed in a slat or wire bottomed coop by keep ing a string of legbandt leg banda bands hanging on the broody coop and by putting g one on every bird put into the coop each broody hen will carry on her leg a n record of her broodiness brood ness tin in a lock flock of light breed chickens or a strain of heavy breed fowl all birds wearing one hand band or more might be marketed as soon as there are enough of them in the flock to justify tha effort of catching them and taking them to town in locks flocks in which broodiness Is more COU common courmon IMOn one cr two broody spells will perhaps have to be tolerated the first couple of seasons if any birds are to be left in the rock nock for future breeding work ohio farmer |