School: Cnoc, Abbeyleix (roll number 2324)
- Location:
- Knockardagur, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seán Ó Huallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 186
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- We keep different kinds of hens. Some are Rhode Island Reds, & some Jersey Giants. There are seventy-five hens altogether. Twenty-five hens are laying.
They are fed three times daily, usually on a mixture of meal, bran, and pollard. The food is put in dishes.
The hen-house is built of stone and slated. Long sticks are fastened in the walls on which the hens roost by night.
We have seventy-four chickens aged from six weeks old to three months old. They are fed four times daily on the same food as the hens. They are put into large boxes at night.
When a hen is hatching and remains on the next for about two days and nights she is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Brennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockardagur, Co. Laois
