School: Termonfeckin
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: T. Ó Corcoráin
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- (continued from previous page)meal and potatoes. When calling the hens we say "Tioc" "Tioc".
We have orange boxes with straw in them for the hens to lay in. When the hens lay they cackle. When calling the chickens we say "Chick chick". When calling the turkeys we say "Bee bee". When calling the ducks we say "Leek leek".
When a hen stops laying she begins to hatch. She is put in a nest with thirteen eggs under her. She sits on them for three weeks and then the chickens are hatched out. - We keep twenty hens and eight chickens at home. The hen house is large. It has a cement floor and three roosts. The roosts are made of wood. The food(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Garvey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Balfeddock, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Garvey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Balfeddock, Co. Louth