 The mother will not leave her eggs, when near hatching, under any circumstances, while life remains. She will even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood...  Our Domestic Fowls - Page 96by William Charles L. Martin - 1799 - 16 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John James Audubon - 1832 - 564 pages
...even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of Turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 pages
...even allow an inclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of Turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - Poultry - 1850 - 342 pages
...made around her, and thus be as it were imprisoned, rather than seek her own safety by flight. Mr. Audubon says, " I once witnessed the hatching of a...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds that already stood tottering and... | |
 | R. E. - 1851 - 464 pages
...quote Audubon's words from his own volume. He says:* * Audubon's Ornithological Biography, vol. ip 7. " I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of turkeys,...feet, and saw her raise herself half the length of her eggs, look anxiously on the eggs, cluck with a sound peculiar to the mother on such occasions, carefully... | |
 | Lewis Wright - Poultry - 1885 - 698 pages
...cluck." He describes the actual hatching-out of a brood, which he once witnessed, as follows : — " I concealed myself on the ground, within a very few feet, and saw the female raise herself half the length of her legs, look anxiously upon the eggs, cluck with a sound... | |
 | Jean-Henri Fabre - Domestic animals - 1918 - 392 pages
...even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
 | Jean-Henri Fabre - Domestic animals - 1918 - 390 pages
...even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - Birds - 1932 - 618 pages
...even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of Turkeys,...the mother on such occasions, carefully remove each half-empty shell, and with her bill caress and dry the young birds, that already stood tottering and... | |
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