The chambers are spacious, airy, and of an equal and rather warm temperature, which accords with their original habits, and their nests are made, as far as possible, to resemble the dark, bramble-covered recesses of their original jungles.” In the proportions, distribution, and fittings of the apartments of this house, considerable knowledge of the habits, with a corresponding and most commendable regard to the conveniences of their granivorous tenants, has been displayed. The description goes on rather like an estate agents details: “Inside these wards, gravel walks, bordered by grass plots, lead to the entrances of the fowl-house. It was ” a semi-gothic building, of simple and appropriate beauty” and consisted “of a central pavilion, used for inspecting the fowls- crowned, on the top, by an elegant dove-cot, and on the sides, of wings capable of symmetric extension, in which are placed the model roosting-houses, and laying and breeding nests of the fowls. The ground, in front, slopes towards the park, and is enclosed and divided by light, wire fences, into separate wards, for the “run” or daily exercise of the birds.” Her Majesty’s White Jave Bantams, from Illustrated London News Many of the great architects of the 18th and 19th centuries were quite happy to turn their hand to designing palaces for poultry, including Sir John Soane, Robert Adam, Henry Holland, John Nash as well as Repton. Of course, estates had to be self-sufficient so poultry houses would have existed on all of them, but although I realised there were some model farms and nice outbuildings, I didn’t think anyone was going to take housing their chickens too seriously.
A beautiful three-storey example survives at Chartham in Kent – pigs on the ground floor, poultry on the second and with doves on the third. Often the henhouse is combined with another animal building, such as a piggery where it was thought the chickens would help keep the pigs warm whilst the pigs would frighten foxes away. Having said that a cursory search on Historic England’s Heritage List yields several dozen listed poultry houses on farms some dating back to the 17thc although mostly from the 19th.
At this level the housing for fowl was usually very modest, and rarely survives. Of course in most instances poultry keeping was a small scale activity either domestically or on a farm, and usually the preserve of the servants or the women of the household, and so the hen house was usually close to the farmhouse or kitchen. It has a blue net on the back, is white in the front, and says "I'm Eggscellent" on it.The triple storey animal/bird house at Burnt House farm, Chartham now part of Chartham Vineyards. The hat makes a final appearance in Mordecai's car trunk in " A Regular Epic Final Battle". Rigby defines Eggscellent as "being cool, but with eggs".ĭuring a quick shot in " Rigby's Graduation Day Special", Pops is seen holding it. The hat is shown once again during " Hello China". The hat can be seen at the end of " Ace Balthazar Lives", where it is worn by the Eggscellent Knight. By the end of the episode, however, he proves he is a champion of Bank Shot and gets the hat back on his head. Rigby is wearing it while playing bank shot, and he loses it during the double-or-nothing bet. The hat is seen yet again in " Bank Shot".
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The Eggscellent Net Hat is seen again in the episode " A Bunch of Full Grown Geese", where it was worn by the Baby Ducks' upgraded transformation.
Oddly, it appears in the Steak Universe commercial, where an actor wore one exactly like it except the words "I'm Eggscellent" were not shown. There are many hats like this in the closet inside the dungeon room, to replace the one someone took, however the closet was nearly full, therefore, not many people have gotten the hat. It was seen in the commercial, at the end when Rigby wears it (which revives him), and in the final challenge when it's on the table. It was seen as the grand-prize for the Eggscellent Challenge and Rigby wanted it. The I'm Eggscellent Net Hat was seen in " Eggscellent".
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