Show broodiness inherited broodiness is a very variable character with no average time of occurrence late spring and summer are the natural periods of broodiness but artificial methods of rearing have made the desire to rear their young ft a matter of uncertain occurrence according to an authority in the rural new yorker the tendency to broodiness Is to a certain extent an inherited factor and some breeds are more inclined i to frequent returns of that period tha than n others individual birds in all breeds also exhibit great differences in this respect weeding out the frequent sitters Is practiced by poultry men in order to avoid transmission of the trait |