We Have Chickens
This week we took delivery of our first chickens.
We have four hens and one (rather diminutive) cockerel, that John Luke has named ‘Cocky’. As yet the hens don’t have names.
Not having names may be a good thing, for us any way, as there will be a time when we have to put the hens in the pot. This would be more difficult if we treat them like pets.
The hens are laying about two eggs a day, and they taste great.
John Luke was very excited when he picked up his first freshly laid (warm) egg.
July 15th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
I’m just job hunting at the moment,though I hardly have a clue what the bait should be. I’ve applied at a few places involving Web development and Java software development and just waiting for their responses.
By the way the KFC program only runs on a compiler from chickenSoft Inc. Ver 2.0 or above. ‘cluck cluck’ is its own way of saying:
KFC: Compile: Error: Exception in thread “main” kfc.lang:Compiler must be chickenSoft compliant!
July 15th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Well done Imran, it is really good to hear from you, and that you have done so well.
What are your plans now?
BTW your KFC program doesn’t seem to run properly, I just get a ‘cluck cluck’ sound from the PC speaker. Is that normal?
July 15th, 2007 at 3:24 am
Hi Michael,
I hope all is well, it’s been a long time since I last posted. I’ve just been so busy + stressed with exams and courseworks, however nothing lasts forever, University life has finally come to an end! I checked my email an hour ago to find that my exam results for the final year were emailed on Friday. I achieved a first-class honours in CS! I’m over the moon! I can’t get to sleep and it’s 3:24am!
I wouldn’t be where I am today, if it wasn’t for you. I’ll always be indebted to you, thank you for everything while I was at the placement.
Since the post is about chickens, incidentally I came across an interesting block of code some time back:
program KFC;
uses
Salt, Pepper, Flour, HotOil, Poultry, MackTruck;
const
MPH = 90;
var
{Don’t reference your chickens before they’re declared!}
Chicken : Poultry.Fowl;
Truck : MackTruck.EighteenWheeler;
begin
Chicken.Hatch; {Constructor}
Truck.Start; {Constructor}
Truck.Rev(MPH);
Chicken.Cross(Road);
Truck.Horn.Honk;
Truck.Brake := TRUE;
Truck.Tires.PutStr(’Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…’);
Chicken.PutStr(’Scra-daaaaaaaaaaaaaawk!’);
Stop; Look; Listen;
if Chicken.Flat then
Output(Colonel,Chicken);
end.
P.S. Abigail seems to be doing really well. JL reminds me of Peter Pan in Neverland, eternal immortality in Torbeg, The Isle of Arran…………