School: Cluain Taidhg (Clontead), Achadh Cóiste (roll number 14023)
- Location:
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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- Fowl should be kept in a well ventilated, airy, warm, clean house. The perches and roosts should be kept clean, and they should be often be put out in the air and washed with paraffin oil, or some other disenfectant spirit, to keep the insects from the perches. The walls of the houses should also be white-washed for to keep them fresh and clean.
The number of hen-eggs which are usually put down to be hatched is thirteen as it is supposed to be a lucky number. Hen-eggs take three weeks to be hatched, duck-eggs four weeks and geese and turkeys four weeks. The food given to chickens when they are only a few days old is, bread crumbs and hard boiled eggs. When they are a month old, or six weeks, they get meal or oats, and the same treatment applies to ducks. Geese are generally(continues on next page) - Collector
- Joan Dineen
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Maurice Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clontead More, Co. Cork
