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If you follow the story of our village of Nizas from our website http://nizas.com/ www.Nizas.com You will have read about Lollo, small but perfectly formed, Lollo is related in one way or another to most of the families in Nizas and has odd pieces of land, houses and farm buildings all around the village. His great pride is a plot by his big field on the side of the hill going up to the plateau over Nizas where he keeps his chickens, ducks, dogs, geese, various antique farm machinery and a goat, as well as vast quantities of wine which is shared with friends and passers by. There are many visitors to this scrapyard menagerie because Lollo has one very special exhibit - a chicken which lays eggs five time bigger than any normal hen - not quite as big as an ostrich, but a fantastic feat for a chicken. Visitors have come from many parts of the world to see Lollos famous chicken, Nizas has become a shrine to egg lovers everywhere and a substantial part of the municipal budget comes from these visitors The steep road from Lollos' chicken run is difficult to navigate on a dark night and last year, after some serious wine tasting, Lollo was in hospital for a few days with a badly broken leg so it was of great concern to the community that Lollos chickens, and the giant egg layer in particular, were looked after. Lollo was, naturally, most concerend about the welfare of his chickens and suggested that his friends shared them out and ate them. Threatened with the barbecuing of the main tourist resource of Nizas, the mayor called an emergency council meeting and councellors voted a special fund be granted to build a new and secure chicken run to protect Lollos' chickens and to preserve the newly founded and rapidly expanding Nizas tourism industry. This was passed and the municipal chicken run was constructed with great speed. The day after the chicken run was finished, with a ceremony which only a small French village can produce, visitors crowded the area around the chicken run to see the monster eggs. To the considerable embarresment of all the village councellors and the Mayor, the Famous Chicken produced only a slightly bigger than standard egg. The next day the eggs were absolutely normal and the day after the eggs were only the size of a large marble. By the time Lollo came out of hospital, eggs the size of a pea were all that the chicken produced and the talk was again of roasting the bird in an attempt to reduce the huge losses the councel now had in a declining tourist trade and the expensive corporate chicken run. An embarressed Mayor and delegation met Lollo and asked him to talk to his chicken to find out what was wrong. Dutifully Lollo sat quietly with the bird, in a sheltered corner of the magnificent government owned chicken shed and asked the bird why she had stopped laying the giant eggs which were the wonder of the poultry world and attracted thousands of egg fanciers to Nizas from 73 different countries. The chicken replied, "But I am working just as hard as any other French civil servant" - the chicken then took its annual holiday and went on strike for the rest of the year. I understand that the chicken is now enjoying an early retirement on full, inflation proof, pension. Ask us anything, we will do our best to help. To contact us please use our...
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