Lincoln's patent

[AussieMick]

As for "The other device was called a "double-back-action hen persuader," which was so adjusted under the hen's nest that as each egg was laid it fell through a trap door out of sight of the author, who would then be persuaded to lay another egg."

I hadnt heard of that invention about Lincoln ... but I did accidentally have a contraption like that once.
We had 5 very good layers , but suddenly they all stopped producing any eggs. Day after day I'd go to the back of the chook shed and lift a flap at the back near their cosy wooden box with a straw 'nest' 1 metre off the ground where they sat and normally laid eggs. Nope no eggs. For 5 or 6 weeks. Yes, I know they sometimes go 'off lay' . But all of them at the same time ???
Anyway for one reason or another I looked under the cosy spot (which was enclosed).
Yep, there were about 3 dozen eggs which had fallen through the straw and out of a hole.

I never made a very good farmer.