Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 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, Cal. —Deserted by his wife, who eloped with a neighbor, Henry, who makes his home with Walter E. Logan in a suburb of this city, has become both mother and father to bls family of twenty-seven children. Henry is a Black Minorca rooster. When Martha, his spouse, hatched out twenty-seven fuzzy 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 his hungry family made him forget his own sorrows. He became a different rooster. Dally he scratches for worms and stands guard over his brood, fighting off adult chickens which would rob bls family of its' food. When bedtime comes Henry escorts his brood to a warm moss-filled box. climbs in himself and cuddles his family.-.