[photochemsyn]

How to annoy the teacher:

> "Ovulation (release of the yolk from the ovary) occurs every 24 – 26 hours regardless of fertilization (so a rooster is not needed). A hen ovulates a new yolk after the previous egg was laid. It takes 26 hours for an egg to fully form (white and shell added), so a hen will lay an egg later and later each day. Eventually the hen will lay too late in a day for ovulation to be signaled. She will then skip a day or more before laying another egg." (UWisconsin Livestock)

So, the 3 hens must have been at the least productive point in their egg-laying cycle over the initial three-day time period... Now if we have the two-hour daily offset, over 12 days, ummm, maybe two or three days skipped per hen? So, ah, 108-120 eggs is what the farmer could expect from the 12 hens?

[dvh]

I remember a story where school teacher was showing plastic animals and asking kids what it was. At some point all kids wrote "cow" except for one farm boy who wrote "goat". Turns out the plastic cow had wrong number of udders. Cows have four, goats have two.

[mlajtos]

Once I saw 5-armed snowflake as an icon on weather forecast in TV.

[dusted]

You meant teats, they both have one udder, but otherwise right :)

[mlajtos]

This is gold!