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    “When driving or calling cows and fowl we use different terms for the different animals or fowl.”

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    When driving or calling cows and fowl we use different terms for the different animals or fowl.
    When driving the cows we say "hough, hough" and when calling them we say "prugie, prugie". When calling the calves we say "suckie, suckie". When calling the pigs we say "hurish, hurish". When driving them we say "humuck, himuck".
    When calling the hens we say "chuckie, chuckie". When calling the chickens we say "birdie, birdie", When calling the ducks we say "wheet, wheet, wheet". When calling the cat we sat "pish, wish, wish."
    When a hen is hatching it is usual to place a horse shoe hanging on the side of the nest.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
            1. calling animals (~71)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Brady
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drummany (Pleydell), Co. Cavan