Setting Hens. —In setting hens, thirteen eggs are enough to give them; a large hen might cover more, but a few stronger, well hatched chicks are better than a large brood of weaklings, that have been delayed in the shell perhaps twelve hours over the time, from insufficient warmth.
At the end of a week, it is usual, with setting turkeys, to add two or three fowl's eggs, "to teach the young turkeys to pick." The plan is not a bad one; the activity of the chickens does stir up some emulation in their larger brethern. The eggs take but little room in the nest, and will produce two or three very fine fowls.
California Farmer
3 May 1855
PS I've never heard of this. Most people won't put any eggs after the first, though I have staggered them over days.
At the end of a week, it is usual, with setting turkeys, to add two or three fowl's eggs, "to teach the young turkeys to pick." The plan is not a bad one; the activity of the chickens does stir up some emulation in their larger brethern. The eggs take but little room in the nest, and will produce two or three very fine fowls.
California Farmer
3 May 1855
PS I've never heard of this. Most people won't put any eggs after the first, though I have staggered them over days.
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