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There are questions over how much the birds go outside, given the size of flock allowed and the distance of the birds from the ‘pop-holes’.
E is for Eggs 2009
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There are questions over how much the birds go outside, given the size of flock allowed and the distance of the birds from the ‘pop-holes’.
E is for Eggs 2009
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When the temperature dropped to - 7C last night, all that moisture froze and locked all the moving parts of the pop-holes in place.
52james commented on the word pop-holes
from the first sentence of Chapter 1 in George Orwell's Animal Farm, and featured in Martin Amis' Money, where John Self can't manage to find out what pop-holes are. Seems they are holes that let the hens in and out of the coop. You can get an automatic pop-hole opener if, like Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, you tend to get "too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes."
October 31, 2020