School: Killyclare
- Location:
- Killycleare, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cheithearnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)a side. We clip them in the month of May. When we are calling pigs we say, "Gurry, gurry" or "hursh, hursh". When we are calling turkeys we say, "Pea, pea", and ducks "Wheet, wheet" and hens "Chuck, chuck."
We feed the pigs with meal and potatoes and they eat grass.
When we milk the cows every morning and evening we feed the calves. When we are calling sheep we say, "Hetchey, hetchey."
We place a number of eggs under a hen and in three weeks little chickens come out of them. When we buy eggs at a fowl station there is a bran on them and it is a pink mark.
- Collector
- Samuel Sharpe
- Gender
- Male
