THE MACHINE-GUN PULLET

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10545, 23 March 1920, Page 10

THE MACHINE-GUN PULLET

SIXTEEN EGGS A DAY FROM A HEN 1 ‘’Sixteen eggs- in , a-oday from one hen’’ sounds pretty .tall talk, but being an American one can understand, says “Answers’*: —-“From 16- hens? No, from one hen! And'l3 of the eggs were laid before a witness who had sworn on’ oath, in the presence of a judge fhat'THeso 13 eggs were laid by the hen without getting off her nest once to take a breather! The hen belongs to‘ an American, and is a White Rock. She is called the ma-chine-gun pullet, or the magazine hen, and sceptics who have visited, her have come away converted. She does not lay 16 eggs every day; that is her, highest record ; hut . she _ maintains a good daily average, ’ hayipg produced 151 eggs in a month, and 77 in one week. She is a’ very particular bird, and has a right to be. As Soon as she thought ’about laying sHe marked off a certain barn for the purpose, and would not begin her career until she had been admitted. Sbe laid from four to six eggs per, day from the outset, and hundreds of people came to see her. . She is still laying hard!” Birds that have been egc-bound have been known to lay a number of eggs at one sitting, and, have, of course, under the ‘ circumstances, to bo excused ; but, a ben, even -an American one, so indecent as to lay 151 eggs in a month and 77 in a week, certainly deserves to be called names, and that of “Magazine, Bjen’.’,",about fits the case.