| 1. | Poultry farming in battery cages also helps to avoid broodiness.
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| 2. | Breeds such as White Leghorn, broodiness is extremely rare.
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| 3. | They have a friendly disposition, and a high tendency towards broodiness.
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| 4. | In heavy breeds of chickens, warm weather tends to bring about broodiness.
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| 5. | Placing artificial eggs into nests also stimulates broodiness.
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| 6. | The poor performance as an egg producer is attributed to the broodiness of the hens.
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| 7. | The breed is prone to broodiness and a pair can easily produce young without human interference.
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| 8. | Broodiness is due to the secretion of prolactine hormone by the front lobe of the hypophysis.
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| 9. | Some studies on crosses of chicken breeds point to the hypothesis of complementary genes acting on broodiness.
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| 10. | Broodiness is more common in some chicken breeds than others, indicating that it is an inherited characteristic.
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