This may go down as the weirdest classical music story of 2013, getting in just before the year winds down. According to the U.K.'s tabloid Daily Star newspaper, a Merseyside farmer has discovered that playing classical music to his hens encourages them to lay more eggs.
Farmer Steve Ledsham has 24 hens. He was in the middle of building a new barn, always playing the classics to lighten the load of that onerous task, and he noticed that the nearby hens became far more productive.
And we're talking a big difference, doubling their normal rate.
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