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How good is your broody? How to identify the good, the bad, and the indifferent

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This article focuses on the broody hen, and only incidentally on the chicks they raise. There are already a lot of good articles and threads on BYC about using broody hens to raise chicks, and links to three such articles can be found at the end of this article. What I want to do here is to consider how to assess whether a broody is actually any good at the job. There is very little proper published research on this topic, so this article is based largely on my own...

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