The Cow Jumped Over the . . .Mower?

The Times of Richmond, April 2, 1902 . . . yes, the same day as the Devil captured article
. . . it was a Fortean time in New Kent.

And this is the same as W.P. Tunstall of exploding chicken fame . . .

 Do mules and cows play together?

(9/20/2019: Apparently they do. Since writing this I have discovered that in fact it is fairly common to pasture mules and cows together, the mules acting essentially as guards to keep predators away.)

Exploding Hens

                                   Eggs Got In Deadly Work
Many Hens Killed by Violent Explosions of Their Frozen Product 

Richmond. Va., Feb. 21.- A most remarkable hen story, vouched for by veracious and respectable people, comes from New Kent county. W. P. Tunstall, who conducts a large hennery, yesterday found several of his fowls dead, with their bodies badly mutilated. While investigating the cause, he heard a muffled explosion, and saw a hen fall from her nest, torn and bleeding. 

 Looking into the matter further, he ascertained that the explosion was due to the fowls sitting on frozen eggs, which when they became warm, exploded, with deadly effect. 

According to Mr. Tunstall, the bodies of the dead fowls had pieces of eggshell all through them.

-Washington Post, 1904