broody

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.