School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)
- Location:
- Brierfield, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)taken from they say when they go around. When a bird is brought to the turkey cock one, two, three, four, etc., are put on the eggs to see how she has layed and to see what eggs are the birds on. They also put crosses on the eggs the way it will be easy to know them if another hen went in laying and you would know it. The goose is the next bigger weighing when finished from ten to twenty lbs. It's flesh is very nice when finished properly. It takes four weeks to hatch out the young goslings, about fifteen in each clutch. They are very delicate first but get very hardy in the course of a few weeks and are no trouble at the end. The best feeding for the young goslings is to let them on the grass. They are sometimes fed on oatmeal. They are called by a peculiar name like "Deadach".The hen is the smallest but of all the rest sometimes the most(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Mulry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Devaney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Dangan Oughter, Co. Galway
