FASTIDIOUS HEN
EGGS LAID IN GRAIN BAG. Mr Zoon Van Eeden, who is farming close to Bethal, boasts of a Plymouth Rock hen, with a queer habit of laying her eggs only in a grain bag, which is left outside the kitchen door purposely for her. It often happens that the hen has difficulty in getting out of the bag. When this is noticed, by someone in the yard, the sack is turned upside down to enable the hen to fall out, in a very exhausted condition, as the sack is definitely very hot inside. If the sack is not in the usual place, she would come up to the kitchen door and scratch against it until someone opens the door and puts a sack out.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 6
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126FASTIDIOUS HEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 6
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