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Last week I told you about Randy. He's the guy in San Diego who's raising chickens in his backyard.

And that got him to wondering about a lot of English expressions that

involve chickens and eggs.

Now Randy says that he gave those three chickens

three different nesting boxes, but they all insist on taking turns

using just one of them.

He writes,

every day about 10 a.m. they each lay one egg.

The hen who's laying the eggs sits in the nesting box.

The other two always stand near the nesting box squawking loudly till she's done.

When the first hand finishes, she trades places with one of the others,

and the whole thing happens again.

They've always done this, so I assume this behavior is where we get the

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