School: Naomh Peadar, Droichead Átha (roll number 11072)

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1. Fowl

   

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   There are varieties of fowl kept in this district:- Rhode Island Reds, Plymouth Rocks, Whandottes, White Leg horns, Barn Velders, and Black Minorcas. Bantam hens are a small variety of hens. If a person wants to call hens he would say:- "Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!" Of he wanted to call turkeys he would say:- "Yib! yip! yib!" If he wanted to call ducks he waould say:- Weel! weel! Weel!"

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. animal husbandry (~2,587)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Louie Mathews

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Skylea, Co. Louth

2. Fowl

   

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   Hens lay once a day. Some hens lay double yoked eggs. Long thin eggs have usually got two yokes in them. When hens are laying & they are frightened off the rest they will lay an egg without a shell. People give hens ground up delph to harden their egg shells. Hens will lay out in the woods if they have no nest egg.
   There are thirteen eggs in a clutch of hen's eggs; then eggs in a clutch of duck eggs; eight eggs in a turkey's clutch & eight eggs in a goose's clutch. A hen hatches out young ducklings.
   When chickens get the "pips" a feather has to be put down their throats to put out the worms.

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