School: Cill Átha (roll number 9298)
- Location:
- Killagh More, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mrs Pender
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The horses are bedded with straw and are given hay and oats to eat. The horses are brought to the forge to be shod. They are clipped be means of a machine called a clippers. We call the horses be whistling. We call the sheep by saying "Chow."
Before setting the eggs a nest is made in a box. First earth is placed in the bottom and a layer of straw is over the clay. There the setting of eggs is placed in this nest and the hatching hen lies on them. A setting of hen eggs usually consists of thirteen eggs. It takes three weeks to hatch hen eggs, and one month to hatch duck eggs and turkey eggs.
- Collector
- Jennie Fahey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
