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When she finally got broody she was given seventeen eggs and allowed to settle down to the task of incubating Christmas dinners.

A broody blackbird 'chinked' anxiously, and a pigeon wheeled aside with a 'swoof.'

The chickens may be saved either by removing them to other broody hens or by putting them in a flannel wrapping in a warm place.

Because the broody hen makes a clucking noise, she is sometimes called a clucking hen.

There is no way of forcing or inducing hens to become broody before they would do so of their own accord.

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On this page you'll find 173 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to broody, such as: crestfallen, despondent, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, and gloomy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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