Poultry.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 2, 27 September 1907, Page 2

Poultry.

HOW DID THE HEN LEARN ? Sow is it that the old hen knows, how to hatch chickens ? i p-rasn who has watched the big b ; ddy coasiw: tho chickens to gro-w iii thirteen «es has seen her sit constantly for four days, being oit only a few minutes at a timo to gco a hit f o eat, and aomctimes not coming oif'at ail for thrce days. .The third day he has aeon'her turn tho eggs with her bill, and thereafter turn eggs with her bill, and thereafter turn them every night and morning up to the eighteenth day. She will rush out after the morning sun has got things warm, and eat a splendid lo.ij, breakfast on the morning of the fifth <hv. The amateur scoi'ng- this for the first timo will get anxious, fearing tho oggs will cool off. Of course they will Sho knows it is all right. Tho lien will stay off ten minutes and bo exceedingly busy. Sho will eat, drink, and take a sun and dust bath. She will 000 l the eggs and then turn thorn every morning until tho eighteenth day, and on the morni!.-' of the eighteenth day sho will not ,eem to need anything to cat, but will hurry oil after it is very warm, cat ;'. bit, drink hurriedly, rush backto the nest and get upon the eggs carefully, as if they might-ho so ninny snap bubbles. On tho eighteenth-day the embryo chick prepares to take a knock at the eggshell, and rights himsolf so he can pick upward. If his head is down, he. turns in the shell, /i the hen should chance to turn an r;s in getting on her ncnt on the oij.riitecu"t-li morning, she will carefully turn the bggs back as quickly as po'jsihlc. Weuldr.'t you freely give something to know the thought in the hen's riinjl that accompanies this simple act ?