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The broody hen will stop laying and instead will focus on the incubation of the eggs ( a full clutch is usually about 12 eggs ).
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It was a fine broody hen, white, with a maternal eye and a striking abundance of feathers in the under region of the abdomen.
Silkies lay a fair number of cream-colored eggs, but production is often interrupted due to their extreme tendency to go broody ; a hen will produce 100 eggs in an ideal year.
It is often possible to place abandoned eggs from other parrot species beneath a broody Eclectus hen, which she will readily accept and then happily incubate to the point of hatching.
It has been a custom on farms for centuries to put duck eggs under a broody hen for hatching ; nowadays incubators are often used.
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Many domestic hens will also do this – and are then said to " go broody ".
Pekin ducks are less " broody " than other ducks which means they will incubate eggs less frequently and they are more likely to abandon their nest before their eggs hatch.
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Modern egg-laying breeds rarely go broody, and those that do often stop part-way through the incubation.
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Despite the intervention of Green Arrow, Roy cruelly butchers Buchinsky with his knives, then burns away his house and all his possessions, becoming a dark, broody vigilante enacting his brand of deadly justice on lowlifes and criminals.
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However, some " utility " ( general purpose ) breeds, such as the Cochin, Cornish and Silkie, do regularly go broody, and they make excellent mothers, not only for chicken eggs but also for those of other species — even those with much smaller or larger eggs and different incubation periods, such as quail, pheasants, turkeys or geese.
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Chicken eggs can also be hatched under a broody duck, with varied success.
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Mr. Nixon is `` a broody, moody man, given to long stretches of introspection ; ;
In stark contrast to broody, often pensive Angel, Riley is optimistic, trustworthy and reliable, and in theory presents Buffy with her first opportunity for a " normal " romantic relationship.
Josh is gorgeous, broody and intense.
The breed sometimes ( but not very often ) goes broody, the speckled version is most likely to do so.
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He sets about composing and performing intimate, mild songs with strong broody and literary lyrics.
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Winston Churchill, for example, argued that " hen the long tally is added, it will be seen that the British nation and the English-speaking world owe far more to the vices of John than to the labours of virtuous sovereigns ".
Roosters will occasionally make a patterned series of clucks to attract hens to a source of food, the same way a mother hen does for her chicks.
On rare occasions, the hen will attempt to fight the cockerel for dominance.
When other cockerels are in the hen yard, this waltz is used significantly more and most cockerels will waltz together if dominance has not been established ; either one will back off, or the two cockerels will fight.
Some more aggressive cockerels will drop and extend both wings and puff out all their body feathers to give the hens and / or other cocks the impression of a larger size, and charge through the hen yard like a bull.
Before hatching, the hen can hear the chicks peeping inside the eggs, and will gently cluck to stimulate them to break out of their shells.
The hen will usually stay on the nest for about two days after the first egg hatches, and during this time the newly hatched chicks live off the egg yolk they absorb just before hatching.
Any eggs not fertilized by a rooster will not hatch, and the hen eventually loses interest in these and leaves the nest.
After hatching, the hen fiercely guards the chicks, and will brood them when necessary to keep them warm, at first often returning to the nest at night.
In Ennead 5. 1. 6, emanationism is compared to a diffusion from the One, of which there are three primary hypostases, the One ( hen ), the Intellect / will ( nous ), and the Soul ( psyche tou pantos ).
If the hen cuckoo is out-of-phase with a clutch of Eurasian Reed Warbler eggs, she will eat them all so that the hosts are forced to start another brood.
Tall growing vigorous weeds such as fat hen ( Chenopodium album ) can have the most pronounced effects on adjacent crops, although seedlings of fat hen that appear in late summer will only produce small plants.
As soon as mating has occurred the hen will deposit 4 to 7 eggs which she will brood for about 20 days.
Rural families would not consume eggs that their hen lay but will sell it in the market for about 20 yuan per kilogram.
The normal Clutch size between 10 to 14 eggs and only the hen incubates the eggs, the incubation period is 18 to 19 days and the breeding season is April to June and the young ones will appear in April through October.
Doralee, previously unaware of the rumors and now realizing why her coworkers have been cold to her, informs Hart that she keeps a gun in her purse and warns him that if he ever makes another indecent reference about her, she will change him " from a rooster to a hen with one shot ".
( Other sources indicate a parent hen will lay about 180 eggs in 40 week production period.
Suitable hollows are at a premium and the hen will vigorously defend her chosen nesting site from other females ( perhaps even fighting to the death ), remaining resident at ' her tree ' for up to 11 months of the year, rarely straying from the entrance to her hollow and relying on multiple males to feed her via regurgitation.
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To stimulate broodiness, an owner may place many artificial eggs in the nest, or to stop it they may place the hen in an elevated cage with an open wire floor.
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The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.
Some hen breeds can produce over 300 eggs per year, with " the highest authenticated rate of egg laying being 371 eggs in 364 days ".
These eggs are generally accepted when they resemble the eggs of the host Mallard, although the hen may attempt to eject them or even abandon the nest if parasitism occurs during egg laying.
About three days after copulation the hen starts laying eggs.
The antibody transfers from the laying hen to the egg yolk by passive immunity to protect both embryo and hatchling from microorganism invasion.
In " Ma and Pa Kettle At Home ", Ma Kettle's prized speckled hen is seen a few times laying eggs on Mannering's head or in his bowler hat.
Camelina has been approved as a cattle feed supplement in the US, as well as an ingredient ( up to 10 % of the ration ) in broiler chicken feed and laying hen feed.
It was the egg laying performance of Australorps which attracted world attention when in 1922-23 a team of six hens set a world record of 1857 eggs at an average of 309. 5 eggs per hen for a 365 consecutive day trial.
It features Archibald Mulliner, the sock collector who can mimic a hen laying an egg, and his love Aurelia Cammarleigh.
Nowadays they are selected to be better egg-layers than in the 1970s with 70 to 120 eggs annually for a young hen and older hens laying only 30 to 55 eggs.
Moreover, the concentration of eggshell proteins decreases over the life of the laying hen, as does eggshell strength.
In an average laying hen, the process of shell formation takes around 20 hours.
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