FOWLS AND BROODINESS.
Broodiness in fowls is a hereditary trait which ean be virtually bred out of them by eareful selection. There are several poultry breeds in Australia who have proved the foregoing statement to bo a fact and as proof they can point to their strain of White Leghorns or Black Orpingtons, in which it is very seldom a broody one will be found. The big breeder who desires a good output of eggs has little room in his flock for broodies. His chief object is to get a given quantity of eggs within a specified time from his hens and then cull them either for the auction room or the dinner table. Broody hens waste the time of the big poultry breeder and time with him usually means money. Hence the less he can see of the broody clement in his hens the better pleased is he. The hens that lay a big batch of eggs in their first season are the birds that he appreciates best and the longer they continue to lay without stopping to go through the invariable moult the better from his point of view.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19051, 2 July 1924, Page 7
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191FOWLS AND BROODINESS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19051, 2 July 1924, Page 7
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