School: Maio (roll number 13119)
- Location:
- Trohanny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chreaig
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- (continued from previous page)will not affect the eggs when they are chipping. Hen eggs have to be hatched for three weeks, and duck eggs have to be left four weeks hatching.
When we are calling the hens we say, tioc, tioc, tioc. When we are calling the ducks, we say, weedy, weedy, weedy.
- People hatch round eggs for pullets and long eggs for cocks. People say if you give away a hatching hen that bad luck will come upon you. If the cock is of the same brood there will be no birds in the eggs.
- Collector
- Sue Pringle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corgreagh or Killagriff, Co. Meath
