"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:23:56 -0800, "Calif Bill"
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"Tim" wrote in message
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On Nov 21, 7:20 am, wrote:
On Nov 21, 8:02 am, Tim wrote:

On Nov 21, 6:44 am, Tom Francis - SWSports

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I never knew this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dPlkFPowCc

I am really suprised yo didn't know that. Tom. When i was a small kid,
my dad showed me that at my grandparents "fahm" . He caught a hen and
moved it around and it kept it's head in one spot.

That is for a while. then a machete solved that problem about a minute
later.

Pretty tasty in Grandma's noodles, though.

A chicken farmer in Florida showed me a cool trick. You take a
chicken, hold it's head down to the ground, then, starting at his
beak, draw a line in the sand with your finger a couple of feet long,
kinda slowly. It will instantly hypnotize the chicken, you can let go,
and she'll not move a muscle until you shake it or something.

Wierd. I haven't heard of that one, but I certainly wouldn't doubt it.

My grandparents and uncle were chicken farmers. And I do not ever
remember
them playing with the chickens. But they had about 4000 of them and
supplied Nulaid Eggs. Was the days before cages and automatic egg
gatherers. They had to go the barn and manually pick the eggs off the
nesting boxes. These days they could get the eggs and sell the chickens
at
end of production as Free Range chickens.

Nulaid?

Sounds like the name for a porn star - "Behind the Hen House" starring
Nulaid and Everhard.

Everhard, by the way, is the name of a local company that does powder
coating and heat treating. :)

I do not think any of the pornstars are Nulaid.
www.nulaid.com Great name for a town: Ripon. My grandparents were in
Turlock. Where the old advertizing slogan in the west was "Turkeys from
Turlock" Probably the first region to really go big time turkey production.
Was a turkey hatchery about a mile down the road from the farmstead.