Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1911 — ROOSTER MOTHERS 27 CHICKS [ARTICLE]

ROOSTER MOTHERS 27 CHICKS

When Hen Elopes With Neighbor Black Minorca Cockerel Takes Up Task of Scratching. Oakland, Cat —Deserted by his wife, who eloped with k neighbor, Henry, who makes his home .with Walter E. Logan in a suburb of this, city, has become both mother and father to-his family of twenty-seven children. Henry is a Black Minorca rooster. When Martha, his sponse, hatched out twenty-seven fussy chicks Henry was the proudest rooster in 'Piedmont But Martha soon became enamored of a neighbor’s Plymouth Rock, deserted her brood and moved Into the neighbor’s coop. Henry moped for a few days, but the peeps of bls hungry family made him forget his own sorrows. He became a different rooster. Daily he scratches for worms and stands guard over his brood, fighting off adult chickens which would rob his family of Its food. Whfen bedtime comes Henry escorts his brood tn* a warm moss-filled box. climbs In himself and cuddles tils family.