School: Oldtown (roll number 7470)
- Location:
- Oldtown, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Ní Ruanaidhe
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- (continued from previous page)hatching hen sitting on them. She hatches the eggs for three weeks and then the chickens come out. If thunder comes while she is hatching them out the chickens will die in the eggs. When we are calling the turkeys we say "bee-bee'.Fodder is what animals are fed on in the fields in Winter. A famous American horse called Plinny, owned by Mister McGlew of Nag's Head, Naul was kept at Nag's Head and he lived to be thirty years. People do not usually call sheep but they drive them. When calling goats we say "Gin-Gin". When calling the hens we sat "Tuk-Tuk".The pigs are kept in the pig-sty. They are bedded with straw. Rings are put on their noses to prevent them from rooting in the ground.
