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Rescued gobblers and hens roamed while visitors to the six-acre spread were able to pet and feed them.

That Plinkst and the Swanburne Academy could coexist on the same planet seemed as unlikely as pigs taking flight, hens growing teeth, very hot places freezing over, and other such expressions of the impossible.

“Well done, clever hens. Now turn, and shimmy, and shake your tails. Shake ’em all about!”

Her 32,000-laying hens would normally be outdoors for most of the day.

“Suddenly with a plop, the egg landed on the straw. With clucks of pleasure the hen shook her feathers, nudged the egg with her beak, and left,” Goodall wrote almost 60 years later.