Radiant Health for Hens
] HAD thought that the humour of backyard fowl runs had long been exhausted, but Judith Terry in "A Fowl Experience" from 1YA the other day showed that if one goes in for a few hens
with a light heart and adventurous mind, new wit and sense can still be scratched up. Mrs. Terry has a good radio voice and per-
sonality, and can temporarily convince one that it is good fun to breed beetles and worms for the hens, and to cultivate special patches of their favourite weeds; recent warnings about the coming shortage of food show that it is good sense too; in practice, it is hard work and
most of us will hand out the traditional mash and grain while supplies last. But I have noticed that the hens that do best are those whose owners have persuaded themselves into enough affection for the brutes to delight in devising little treats for them, and in hanging over the run with words of soothing endearment and approval.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 8
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172Radiant Health for Hens New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 8
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