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Brahmas and Cochins possess one great recommendation as sitters, in the soft and abundant supply of downy feathers that so specially distinguish these varieties; for under no other hens do the eggs appear to maintain a higher or more constant temperature.

— William Bernhardt Tegetmeier The Poultry Book (1867)

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