School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)
- Location:
- Bellanurly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mrs Anna Ewing
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- XML “Cockerels or Pullets”
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- (continued from previous page)hens might lay on the "clocker's nest. Sometimes the date they are set is written on them.
- Some of the country woman say they can tell what kind of a bird (sex) will come out of an egg. To do this they thread a double thread through the eye of a needle. They hold the thread and let the needle swing freely over the egg. If the needle swings from left to right there will come a pullet out of that egg when hatched, but if the needle goes round in a circle the egs contains(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Olive Linday
- Gender
- Female