Always set a hen on fifteen eggs and they will hatch well. Bad luck may be expected, if a gray chicken scratches under your window. Bad news will come, if a rooster crows before midnight. Beating an egg the same day it is laid will cause you bad luck. Because eggs are 70-percent water, if chickens have plenty of clear fresh water, they are bound to lay.
Black chickens have a coarser meat than that of other chickens.
Bringing eggs into the house after dark is unlucky. Candle an egg and if the air space is on the side, it will hatch a hen. Chickens hatched in June will sleep all the time. Chickens that are hatched in the dark of the moon will not thrive. Chickens will lay if given ground egg shells.