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By Suzannah Hills: 11:27 GMT, 28 May 2012

Why did the chicken start laying eggs again? Because she had an iPad!

A lonely chicken has been coaxed into laying eggs again after watching videos of other birds running around on an iPad.
Hen Maia was left distraught and stopped producing eggs after her pen pal Baba was eaten when a fox snuck into their
hut in the middle of the night last month.

But owner Ashley Wood, 36, managed to get the withdrawn chicken laying eggs again after finding her some virtual friends
by setting up his iPad in the garden of his home, in Portishead, Somerset, where Maia could watch other hens onscreen.





The delighted office manager is now reaping the rewards - with the hen producing around five eggs per week.

Chickens live in flocks so they do not cope well being alone with many getting lonely or depressed. Maia's new virtual friends
have given her a new lease of life and she spends several hours with them a day on the iPad.



And the moral of the story ..... iPad Is For Chicken!