chicken music

Chicken Music

The same hoary old story appeared for the umteeth time in today's

Clement Crabbe column of the Daily Mail. Much amusement was being

derived from reports that a poultry farmer kept his laying hens

content by a non stop diet of Classic FM. Without being specific about

the actual station, it is entirely practical to 'entertain' laying

hens in this way. During the early years of my farming career, we

maintained a laying flock of several thousand hens, and always had the

radio on at full blast in the battery houses.

It may be that some hens do have specific tastes in music, and today

have progressed to music a touch more highbrow than my taste - but

ours had to put up with what I wanted to hear. I'm sure some became

expert on ball by ball cricket commentary, of which I was an addict

for many years. The only point of practical importance was that there

was dominating background noise - so that all the hens didn't panic

when the door opened, or something was accidentally dropped - leading

to cracked eggs, damaged hens and reduced profits.

posted by Glyn Davies at 22:48

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