Dispensary Corner 13 Feb 12
February 13, 2012
WHICH came first, the rooster or
the egg?
Chicken owners in China’s Anhui
Province are claiming to own the
world’s first egg laying rooster.
According to one of the bird’s
owners, Huang Li, the rooster
started to lay eggs after all seven
of his hens were progressively
eaten by Li’s family.
“I thought it was a joke and
that one of my neighbours had
put the egg in there for fun,” he
said.
“But the next day there was
another egg and so on the third
day I waited - and was amazed
when I saw that the rooster laid
an egg,” he added.
Scientists from the Chinese
agricultural office are now
looking into the claims to
determine if the rooster has
always been a hen that looked
like a rooster, or if in fact it
changed sexes after the death of
its mates.
MONEY to burn.
Authorities at Hungary’s central
bank have taken a novel
approach to helping the needy to
ward off the cold this winter,
offering them money to burn.
The bank destroys around
45,00kgs of old currency each
year, and decided, after some
research, that because briquettes
of old currency have a similar
heating quality to brown coal,
that they would donate the cash
briquettes to charities for heating.
Meanwhile, to avoid
temptation, workers who turn
the cash into the briquettes,
have to wear pocketless clothes
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