Caffeine, Culs-de-sac and Collective Nouns

As we sit here within the walls of L'Espresso consuming what many would label as "too many coffees" we are forced to recognise the randomness and incongruent nature of the deep spaces of our minds. While some "get a kick from champagne" I feel my inner thoughts come forth whilst under the influence of C8H10N4O2.  My mind goes walkabout and there isn't much to filter on the path to the mouth. Anything and everything that pops into the head will flow freely to the page.
Let us get serious here for a moment, a muse of capons? Is it very very necessary that we have proper collective noun for a group of castrated roosters that have been fattened for sale? Seriously folks. A flink of cows but only when more than 12 otherwise just a herd. If i were a cow i personally would never travel in groups of less than 12 for who would ever want to be referred to as a herd when one could be the deciding member of a flink? Most make sense, a flight of swallows, a cloud of seafowl, an ambush of tigers, a sneak of weasels, a plague of locusts, one of my favourites, an escargatoire of snails, an eloquence of lawyers, but really the one that takes the cake as best named collective mass of animalia is a congress of baboons.
Now to another educatioal part of this tri-paragraphical post...oh random parenthetical what a great word...pluralization of hyphenated words. Was just reading an academic journal article upon the inters-web (hehe jokes) for Uni and noticed at a few interspersed times the author, to make a hyphenated word plural, simply added an "s" at the end. This got me to thinking, and I post this without any research with which to support my tirades. The plural of a hyphenated or compound word should include the 's' following the primary noun. Id est, Mothers-in-law, courts-martial, passersby, major generals not majors general, and then we hit things like manservant becoming menservants and then all goes to hell haha.

Well if you actually read all that i am proud and i'm sure you have something to say concerning the subjects if not then just say nothing at all.