Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1911 — ROOSTER MOTHERS 27 CHICKS [ARTICLE]

ROOSTER MOTHERS 27 CHICKS

When Hen Elopee With Neighbor Black Minorca Cockerel Takee Op Task of Scratching. Oakland, Cal. —Deserted by his wife, who eloped with a neighbor, Henry, who makes bis 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 spouse, hatched out twenty-seven fussy chicks Henry was tbe proudest rooster in Piedmont. But Martha soon became enamored of a neighbor’s Plymouth Rock, deserted ber brood and moved into the neighbor’s coop. Henry moped for a few days, bnt the peeps of his hungry family made him forget his own sorrows. H 4 became a different rooster. Daily he scratches for worms and stands guard over his brood, fighting oil adult chickens which would rob hlB family of its food. When bedtime comes Henry escorts his brood to a warm moss-filled box, climbs in himself and cuddles his family.