Sooo much pooping

[beccauk]

Thought id share this, think il give my chickies a extra hug tomorrow.

 

 

The Battery Hen

 

 

 

Oh, I am a battery hen

 

On me back theres not a germ,

 

I never scratched a farmyard,

 

And i never pecked a worm,

 

I never had the sunshine,

 

To warm me feathers through,

 

Eggs i lay, Every day.

 

For the likes of you.

 

 

 

When you has them scrambled,

 

Piled up on your plate,

 

Its me what yoy should thank for that,

 

I never lays them late,

 

I always lays them reg'lar,

 

I always lays them right,

 

I never lays them brown,

 

I always lays them white.

 

 

 

But its no life, for a battery hen,

 

In me box im sat,

 

A funnel stuck out from the side,

 

Me pellets comes down that,

 

I gets a squirt of water,

 

Every half a day,

 

Watchin' with me beady eye,

 

Me eggs, roll away.

 

 

 

I lays them in a funnel,

 

Stratègically placed,

 

So that i dont kick 'em

 

And let them go to waste,

 

They rolls off down the tubing,

 

And up the gangway quick,

 

Sometimes i gets to thinkin'

 

"that could have been a chick!"

 

 

 

I might have been a farmyard hen,

 

Scratchin' in the sun,

 

There might have been a crowd of chicks,

 

After me to run,

 

There might of been a cockerel fine,

 

To pay us his respects,

 

Instead of sittin' here,

 

Till someone comes and wrings our necks.

 

 

 

I see the Time and Motion clock,

 

Is sayin' nearly noon,

 

I 'spec me squirt of water,

 

Will come flyin' at me soon,

 

And then me spray of pellets,

 

Will nearly break me leg,

 

And i'll bite the wire nettin'

 

And lay one more bloody egg.

[PixieDust]

That has made me cry

[jimnpaula]

It was written by Pam Ayres - I always read it in her voice.

[Valkyrie]

I guessed it was Pam - I read it in my head as if it were she ooh arrr! Good poem though.

[PixieDust]

Yes I was reading it in a Pam voice lol. Her style is very distinctive.

[Chickabee]

Got a tear in my eye too. Pam Ayres is a keen chicken keeper, so I guess this is a subject close to her heart

[Mars]

That is not the way a battery hen would think. because Sun Farm Worm Rooster Chicks. all those things are unknown to her. so she wouldn't miss something she isn't aware of its existence.

[Chickabee]

It's a poem not an interview

[Mars]