Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — A Mixed Brood. [ARTICLE]

A Mixed Brood.

A resident of Friendship, ' Ga., owns a turkey hen that not only keeps his family well supplied with young turkeys, but sometimes surprises the family by the presentation of a mixed brood. On the last occasion, after setting on twelve eggs for her usual term of incubation, she was found the other morning hovering over ten young turkeys and one young opossum, it having required two turkey eggs to produce one ’possum. The young ’possum in question was about the size of a half-grown rat, and was nestling under the turkey as contentedly as any one of the legitimate brood.